Section three looks at Aboriginal health policy covering priority areas, programs and services, First Nations and territorial transfers, mandates and health gaps.
Scroll down to page 7 for relevant materials.
In the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador Court of Appeal
Newfoundland and Labrador vs. Labrador Métis Nation
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador
Court of Appeal
Description
At issue is whether Métis located in southern Labrador have rights which compel the Crown to engage in consultation regarding areas affected by Phase III of the Trans-Labrador Highway.
Data listed by region: Alberta, Atlantic, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon, as well as Canada as a whole.
Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Johns Hopkins University, 2000.
Argues that the efforts to empower First Nation people by granting them a significant role in the governance of their own lands and people comes as a mixed blessing.
Anglican Journal, vol. 126, no. 9, October 2000, p. 7
Description
Bishop declines to participate in campaign aimed at federal government urging resolution of residential schools issue because wording implied diocese directly involved.
Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, vol. 11, no. 1, New Series, 2000, pp. 87-108
Description
Discusses the Royal visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later George V and Queen Mary), the ceremonies held and review of the extensive related archival records.
Examines the tensions between Aboriginal environmental justice with non-renewable resource development and the recognition and reconciliation of Aboriginal interests.
Historicising Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on the Construction of an Identity
Melbourne University Conference and Seminar Series ; vol. 16
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Andrew Gunstone
Description
Discusses issues such as nationalist view of reconciliation, limited understanding of history and appropriation of Indigenous culture and identity, which contributed to the failure of the process.
Chapter from Historicising Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on the Construction of an Identity edited by Leigh Boucher, Jane Carey, and Katherine Ellinghaus.
Indian Claims Commission Proceedings: A Publication of the Indian Claims Commission (2007) 18 ICCP
E-Books
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
Report includes background documents, articles, comments and responses regarding the following cases: Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation, Flooding Negotiations (Mediation); Peepeekisis First Nation Inquiry, Fire Hills Colony Claim; Moosomin First Nation ,1909 Reserve Land Surrender (Mediation); Thunderchild First Nation, 1908 Surrender Claim (Mediation); and the Betsiamites Band, Highway 138 and Rivière Betsiamites Bridge Inquires.
Commissioners include: Renée Dupuis, Daniel J. Bellegarde, Jane Dickson-Gilmore, Alan C. Holman, and Sheila G. Purdy.
Canadian Journal of Film Studies, vol. 16, no. 2, Fall, 2007, pp. 48-81
Description
Discusses the Aboriginal documentaries produced as part of National Film Board's initiative designed to give marginalized social groups a greater voice. Films include: Powwow at Duck Lake, Elliot Lake, The Indian Speaks, Ballad of Crowfoot, Cree Hunters of Mistassini, and You are on Indian Land.
Argues that the state-sponsored alternative dispute resolution (ADR) process reflects a misuse of ADR because it represents the government’s attempt to pacify
residential school survivors through social control.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 24, no. 6, November/December 2000, pp. 9-10
Description
Reports on the agreed range of key principles to establish the design and implementation of local programs in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Australia.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 3, no. 3, 2007, pp. 8-11
Description
Looks at an address on the issue of reconciliation in child welfare by Mr. Justice René Dussault, Quebec former Co-Chair of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 24, no. 6, November/December 2000, p. 8
Description
Alcohol and Other Drug Council of Australia (ADCA) calls on Federal Government to include a substance abuse expert in the proposed Indigenous Families and Communities Roundtable.
Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, vol. 13, no. 3, 2007, pp. 121-131
Description
Highlights potential problems and pitfalls which foreign policy analysts and practitioners should be aware of when seeking to learn from and about Indigenous diplomacies.
The Canadian Geographer, vol. 51, no. 3, Fall, 2007, pp. 339-359
Description
Looks at residential schools and the people involved, as part of the policies of assimilation, enculturation or annihilation of Aboriginals. The author categorizes schools as 'intimate sites nested within Canadian colonial and nation-building agendas'.
Concludes that no outstanding treaty land entitlement is owed to the James Smith Cree Nation. Commissioners include: Renée Dupuis and Alan C. Holman. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 177, no. 4, August 14, 2007, p. 321
Description
Examines the case of Jordan, a young Manitoba First Nation's child with a rare neuromuscular disorder, who died in a Winnipeg hospital after federal and Manitoba governments could not agree on who was financially responsible when hospital caregivers wanted to discharge him to a specialized foster home care near his home Reserve.
Final Report examines whether the claim of the Key Lake First Nations discloses a breach of Canada's "lawful obligations" to the First Nation under the Specific Claims Policy. Commissioners include: P. E. James Prentice, Carole T. Corcoran, and Roger J. Augustine.
[These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]