Oral Intervention by Sharon Venne on Behalf of the Lubicon Cree, extensive appendices included providing history of the claim.
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Sharon Venne
Description
Presentation to the Working Group on Indigenous Peoples, United Natioins.
Ottawa Owned St George's But Church Ran It, Judge Concludes
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Kathy Blair
Anglican Journal, vol. 125, no. 8, October 1999, p. [?]
Description
Focuses on the Lytton, B.C. sexual abuse lawsuit against the Anglican Church, and the church's argument that the federal government should bear the main responsibility.
Our National Competitiveness and Canada's Territories
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Description
Discusses the adaptability of businesses in Canada's territories and the necessity of the federal and territorial governments to do the same.
Our Women and Girls Are Sacred: Interim Report: The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
E-Books
Author/Creator
Marion Buller
Michèle Audette
Brian Eyolfson
Qajaq Robinson
Paddling Together: Co-Governance Models for Regional Cumulative Effects Management
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jessica Clogg
Gavin Smith
Deborah Carlson
Hannah Askew
Description
Includes case studies of co-management models from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Florida.
The Perceptions of First Nations Participants in a Community Oral Health Initiative
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kavita R. Mathu-Muju
James McLeod
Leeann Donnelly
Rosamund Harrison
Michael I. MacEntee
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 76, no. 1, 2017, p. article no. 1364960
Description
Interviews caregivers enrolled in the program whose children got preventative care at home (0-2) vs. at school (5-7).
Persistence of Colonial Prejudice and Policy in British Columbia's Indigenous Relations: Did the Spirit of Joseph Trutch Haunt Twentieth-Century Resource Development?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
George Abbott
BC Studies, no. 194, Summer, 2017, pp. 39-64
Description
Looks at how province's first lieutenant-governor's attitudes about the land question continued to exert influence during two periods: the years following entry into Confederation (1871 to 1876) and during the era of postwar hydroelectric development using case studies from 1951 to 1989.
Petrol Sniffing - Treat The Causes Not The Symptoms
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jim Downing
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 9, no. 3, September 1985, pp. 38-43
Description
Discusses some of the underlying contributive causes: rapid societal change, Australian federal government policy.
Plain Talk 14: First Nations Accountability
Alternate Title
It's Our Time First Nations Tool Kit
Plain Talk ; 14
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Assembly of First Nations]
Description
Looks at Bill C-27, The Financial Accountability and Transparency of First Nations Bill.
Plain Talk 24: Practical Guidelines for Writing Proposals
Alternate Title
It's Our Time First Nations Tool Kit
Plain Talk ; 24
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Assembly of First Nations
Description
Offers practical suggestions on how to craft a suitable grant proposal for obtaining funding.
Plain Talk 5: The Indian Act
Alternate Title
It's Our Time: First Nations Tool Kit
Plain Talk ; 5
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Assembly of First Nations]
Description
Provides a history of the impacts of the implementation of the Indian Act, which was passed in 1876.
Plain Talk 6: Residential Schools
Alternate Title
It's Our Time: First Nations Tool Kit
Plain Talk ; 6
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Assembly of First Nations]
Description
Describes the history of Canada's residential schools which were financed by the federal government, but largely run by various religious organizations.
Plateaus of Freedom: Nationality, Culture and State Security in Canada, 1927-1957
Theses
Author/Creator
Mark Kristmanson
Description
Humanities Doctoral Program Thesis (Ph.D.)--Concordia University, 1999.
Policy Options Paper for an Urban and Rural Indigenous Housing Strategy: Final Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Cassandra Vink
Description
Academic and grey literature review conducted on: key issues; principles and desired outcomes; recent historical programs and policies; program and policy recommendations; and international program and policy examples. Options were then examined to determine whether they aligned with principles and desired outcomes, as well as feasibility and viability in current social context.
Political Responses
Alternate Title
[Daniels: In and Beyond the Law]
[Métisland: Métis Settlements and the Daniels Decision]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Will Goodon
Gerald Cunningham
Description
President of the Métis Settlements General Council discusses its involvement in the Daniels case and actions of the Council since the decision. Second speaker discusses the political and historical context of the case, analyzes the court's judgement, and suggests possible future actions.
Duration: 1:15:01.
Presentations are part of the conference "Daniels: In and Beyond the Law" held at University of Alberta, Jan. 26-27, 2017.
The Politics of Contested Space: Military Property Development in Calgary, 1907-1938
Theses
Author/Creator
P. Whitney Lackenbauer
Description
History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Calgary, 1999. Discusses historical context of controverted federal acquisition of Sarcee lands.
Postcard From the 2016 Yukon Election
Articles » General
Author/Creator
David Roddick
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 5, no. 1, Food (In)security in Northern Canada, April 2017, pp. 63-68
Description
Contends that the new Liberal government needs to make renewed investment for intergovernmental relationships with First Nations.
Prairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization, and the Politics of Intervention
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jaskiran Dhillon
Principled Compromise or Compromised Principles?: Aboriginal Land Claims and the Problem of Liberal Property
Theses
Author/Creator
Brent Joseph Arnold
p. 104
Description
Political Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Queen's University, 1999.
Problems and Solutions Regarding Indigenous Peoples Split by International Borders
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Richard Osburn
American Indian Law Review, vol. 24, no. 2, 1999/2000, pp. 471-485
Description
Discusses the issues surrounding Indigenous peoples whose traditional territories straddle borders between the United States, Mexico and Canada.
Progress Report on Response to the Recommendations of the 1997 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers' Conference
Articles » General
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 23, no. 4, July/August 1999, pp. 11-17
Description
Concluding article contains major recommendations on five specific health issues.
Progress Report on Responses to the Recommendations of the 1997 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers' Conference
Articles » General
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 23, no. 3, May/June 1999, pp. 14-22
Description
Contains major recommendations on four specific health strategies.
Public Servant Schools in Canada: A Concept for Reconciliation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mark Weiler
The Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, vol. 29, no. 2, June 2017, pp. 1-20
Description
Discusses call to action 57 from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission regarding the provision of education to public servants on the history of Aboriginal peoples and residential schools.
Quebec Secession and Self-Determination of First Nations
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bradford W. Morse
Native Studies Review, vol. 12, no. 2, 1999, pp. 27-54
Description
Discusses implications for contemporary agreements and relationships between First Nations and federal/provincial governments, should Quebec separate from Canada.
"The Queen Wishes Her Red Children to Learn the Cunning of the White Man": The Myth of Educating Inuit Out of Primitive Childhood and Into Economic Adulthood
Theses
Author/Creator
Derek Rasmussen
Description
Education Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 1999.
Racial Extractivism: Neoliberal White Settler Colonialism and Tar Sands Extraction
Theses
Author/Creator
Jennifer Preston
Description
Social and Political Thought Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2017.
Racially "Indian", Legally "White": The Canadian State's Struggles to Categorize the Métis, 1850-1900
Theses
Author/Creator
Jennifer Hayter
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2017.
Rankin Inlet Ceramics. Part One: A Study in Development and Influence
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Stacey Neale
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 1, Spring, 1999, pp. 4-17
Description
Looks at the early history of the Rankin Inlet Ceramics project and the role played by civil servants and the Canadian Eskimo Arts Council.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 4.
Access to Part two.
Rankin Inlet: From Mining Town to Commercial Centre
Articles » General
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 1, Spring, 1999, pp. 21-22
Description
Comments on the town's resilience after the closure of the nickel mine.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 21.
Rebuilding Indigenous Nations through Constitutional Development: A Case Study of the Métis in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Janique Dubois
Kelly Saunders
Nations and Nationalism, February 20, 2017, pp. 1-24
Description
Concludes that the Metis Nation must build legitimacy internally amongst members and externally with the state.
Reconciliation is an English Word
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jason Mercredi
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 5, no. 2, Innovations in Community Health and Wellness, July 2017, pp. 58-61
Description
Comments on the proposed >Indigenous Languages Act
The Red Road: Pathways to Wholeness - An Aboriginal Strategy for HIV and AIDS in BC
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
B.C. Aboriginal HIV/AIDS Task Force
Description
Provides an overview of the issues with a focus on injection drug users, young people, women, and factors of incarceration. Gives strategies to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Redefining Security in the Arctic Region
Theses
Author/Creator
Mari-Anna Suurmunne
Description
Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 1999.
Remote Avant-Garde: Aboriginal Art under Occupation
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Rosita Henry
Amercian Anthropologist, vol. 119, no. 2, June 2017, pp. 369-370
Description
Book review of Remote Avant-Garde by Jennifer Loureide Biddle.
[Report Says Innu are the World's Most Suicide-Ridden People]
Alternate Title
The National ; November 8, 1999
[Davis Inlet: World's Most Suicide-Ridden People]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Darrow MacIntyre
Napes Ashini
Brian Tobin
Description
Discusses a report released by Survival International, an Indigenous rights organization, which states that the Innu are under continual assault by the Canadian Government.
Duration: 3:17.
Reproductive Narratives: Settler-Colonialism and Neoliberalism in Alberta's Child Welfare System
Theses
Author/Creator
Miranda Sophia Leibel
Description
Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2017
Researching and Revealing Indian Hospitals in Canada
Alternate Title
Canada's History Forum ; 9th
Engaging Authentic Indigenous Histories
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Maureen Lux
Description
Author of Separate Beds speaks about the history of segregation, discrimination, and substandard facilities, care and funding in the Indian Hospital Service.
Duration: 15:56.
Residential Schools and Reconciliation: Canada Confronts Its History
E-Books
Author/Creator
J.R. Miller
Review of Accountability and Mutual Accountability Frameworks: Final Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Institute on Governance
Description
Focuses on funding agreements used in different levels of government including: land claims/modern treaties, territorial formula financing, international agreements and treaties, block funding, transfer payments, municipal transfer payments, and institutional authorities.
"Riel … vivra dans notre histoire": The Response of French Canadians in the United States to Louis Riel's Execution
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mark Paul Richard
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 51, no. 3, Autumn, 2017, pp. 697-724
Description
Author explores the response from French-Canadian peoples living in the United States in the mid-1870s to the execution of Louis Riel; argues that the reaction can help to understand religious and ethnic transnationalism, and resistance to social and political forces in the Canada and the U.S. in the late nineteenth century.
"A Rink at This School is Almost as Essential as a Classroom": Hockey and Discipline at Pelican Lake Indian Residential School, 1945-1951
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Braden Te Hiwi
Janice Forsyth
Canadian Journal of History, vol. 52, no. 1, Spring-Summer, 2017, pp. 80-108
Description
"This article examines the disciplinary effects of hockey at Pelican Lake Indian Residential School from 1945 to 1951".
The Roots of Inuktitut-Language Bilingual Education
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Donna Patrick
Perry Shearwood
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 19, no. 2, 1999, pp. 249-262
Description
Relates the history of educational programs in Northern Canada, the government policies of 1960s to 1970s, and the implementation of a bilingual educational policy in Nunavik.
Saskatchewan Veterans Reach Out to Country
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Paul Barnsley
Windspeaker, vol. 17, no. 6, October 1999, p. 7
Description
Presents the views held by the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations and the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs regarding unfulfilled veterans’ benefits. The feeling is that First Nations veterans need to get organized, on a national level, to lobby the federal government in order to be heard.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.7.
The Saugeen Ojibway Nation and Canada: Historical Relationships, Settler Colonialism, and Stories of a Shared Space
Theses
Author/Creator
Christopher James Wright
Description
History Research Thesis (Ph.D.)--King's College London, 2017.
Self-Government Agreements and Jurisdiction in Education
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Harvey McCue
Description
Examines six Self-Government Agreements (SGAs) and their references to jurisdiction in education.
Sentencing and the Prevention of Youth Crime: A Multi-Disciplinary, Multi-Institutional Approach
Theses
Author/Creator
Sanjeev S. Anand
Description
Law Thesis (J.D.)--York University, 1999.
Separate Beds: A History of Indian Hospitals in Canada, 1920s–1980s
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Alison Norman
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 98, no. 3, Fall, 2017, pp. 609-611
Description
Book review of Separate Beds by Maureen Katherine Lux.
Settler Biopower: Accumulation and Dispossession in Canada's Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lara Fullenwieder
Settler Colonial Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, 2017, pp. 1-20
Description
Explains why settler colonialism is a structure not an event.
Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing: Documentary Governance of Indigenous Life in Canada and Its Disruption
Theses
Author/Creator
Danielle Taschereau Mamers
Description
Media Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Ontario, 2017.