Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, June 1979, pp. 19-24
Description
Reports on a government program that relocates Australian Aboriginal families from poorer outlying areas into five towns with better employment and education opportunities.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 31, no. 3, Fall, 1996, p. 192
Description
Discussion of implications for Canada, if Quebec were to leave Confederation and how Canada would still be required to fulfil its obligations to Aboriginal Peoples.
Focuses on integrated resource management throughout comprehensive claim territories in the Arctic and Subarctic, with special attention on the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement and the Inuvialuit Final Agreement.
Practicing Anthropology, vol. 18, no. 4, Fall, 1996, pp. 29-32
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The author recounts her own personal experience working as a special advisor to the Office of the Treaty Commissioner to discuss contemporary treaty negotiations.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 3, no. 4, December 1979, pp. 26-32
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Reports on the Community Development and Employment Program (C.D.E.P.) which has flexible guidelines more suited to the remote community in South Australia where it began.
Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. 28, no. 1, 1996, pp. 1-7
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Examines how Canada has not embraced the whole scope of it's national literature and looks at the complexities of what is, and isn't, "Canadian" under the adoption of multiculturalism.
Concludes that four problems must be addressed: level of commitment to self-government by other governments, clear policy and process to achieve recognition for the purpose of negotiations, issues related to funding and other resources, and the need for mechanisms for longer term relations.
Gives an example where the Ontario Provincial Police revealed that they had sent observers out to British Columbia to gain information on the crisis at Gustafsen Lake that they felt they could use for the occupation at the Ipperwash Provincial Park, under the assumption that these events, and people, were similar.
Explains that the Grand Council of the Crees of Quebec wished to stay in Canada in the event that Quebec seperated from Canada and questions how the Quebecers could deny the First Nations the very thing that they insist is theirs, self-determination.
International Journal of Canadian Studies, no. 14, Citizenship and Rights, Fall, 1996, pp. [52]-76
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Looks at issues raised with the Canadian political system and reviews two different concepts for Canadian citizenship.
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Labour/Le Travail, vol. 38, Special edition: Australia and Canada: Labour Compared, Fall, 1996, pp. [37]-53
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Compares policies that oppressed Aboriginal women in Australia and Canada during the 19th and 20th centuries. Special Joint issue with Labour History, volume 71.
Native Studies Review, vol. 11, no. 1, Native People in British Columbia: Recent Research, 1996, p. 49–64
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Discusses the issue of Aboriginal fishing & trading practices and how it relates to the present-day controversy on whether Native people should have commercial rights to fishing resources.
Examines the domains of science and policy in the context of Aboriginal issues and how film representations of Aboriginal people are linked to media portrayals.
Prepared in 1996 and revised in 2003 for the Political and Social Affairs Division, Parliamentary Library; provides historical background of federal legislative control of "status" and "membership."
Historical background and submission to Indian Claims Commission (ICC) whether Aht-Len-Jees I.R. 5 ceased to be a reserve by virtue of its dis-allowance by Commissioners Ditchburn and Clark, acting under the British Columbia Land Settlement Act. ICC recommended settlement be negotiated and fast tracked under the Specific Claims Policy. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]