Follow-up audit assessed extent to which the Department had acted on recommendations made in April 2000 Report and the June 2000 Report of the Public Accounts Committee
Canadian Public Policy, vol. 20, no. 3, September 1994, pp. 297-317
Description
Recommends ways to keep Aboriginal people in their communities by offering support for sustaining hunting, fishing and trapping through co-management of renewable resources, better use of under utilized resources, training and support for wildlife harvesters and more support for entrepreneurship.
Justice as Healing, vol. 2, no. 2, Summer, 1997, p. [?]
Description
Brief description of this initiative, which formed part of the federal government's Aboriginal Justice Strategy.
Note: This is a sample article from the publication. Subscriptions are available from the Native Law Centre.
Provides data on socio-demographic variables, electoral participation trends and describes Elections Canada's action plan to get more people participating.
Canada's Labour Force Survey in 2005 separated off-reserve data into "Indian," Metis and Inuit, analyses of these data indicated 2.5 times higher rates of employment of non-Aboriginal than of Aboriginal peoples.
Includes discussion of historical context, contemporary (1994) population and socio-economic conditions, funding arrangements and jurisdictions, and recommendations for facilitating movement towards self-government.
Background Paper (Law and Government Division, Parliamentary Library) ;
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Peter Niemczak
Description
Briefly looks at efforts made in Maine, Scandinavia, New Zealand and Canada to provide some form of political representation which would increase Aboriginals' ability to influence government operations.
1994 version.
Overview of cases considered, and an explanation of the importance of R. v. Van der Peet which lays down the test for determining the existence of an Aboriginal right.
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 23, no. 6, July-August 1994, p. 14
Description
First Nations Justice System provides future opportunity to apply alternative forms of treatment in correcting the behaviour of First Nations people who violate Provincial Wildlife Regulations/Law.
Proceedings of the Third Northern Research Forum ; 2004
The Resilient North: Human Responses to Global Change
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Rob Huebert
Description
Looks at historical understandings of security and the Arctic: traditional, environmental, and human.
Presentation from: Proceedings of the Third Northern Research Forum: The Resilient North: Human Responses to Global Change, Yellowknife, NWT, 2004.
Canadian Government Lauds Advances in Indigenous Rights
Articles » General
Author/Creator
John Sinclair
Canadian Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 3, The International Decade of the Worlds Indigenous People, Fall, 2004
Description
Presents a review of succcessful negotiations on land claims and self-government agreements, in Canada, to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 3, The International Decade of the Worlds Indigenous People, Fall, 2004
Description
Interview with Adelard Blackman, special emissary for Chief Elmer Campbell and the people of Buffalo River Dene Nations, regarding the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 1, no. 1, September 2004, pp. 73-82
Description
Comments on a two-year study of abuse and neglect of Native American and Native Alaskan children based on records from the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS).
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
Description
Demographics provided include, health, education, social conditions, housing, self government of First Nations and Canadians living north of the 60th parallel.
Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Robert W. Mitchell
pp. 303-314
Description
Article from 1993 Conference proceeding, discussing justice reform, self-government in the context of inherent rights and facing the challenge of overlapping roles among the levels of government.
Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 24, no. 1, 2004, pp. 223-226
Description
Book reviews of 4 books:
A Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood by Kim Anderson.
Firewater: The Impact of the Whisky Trade on the Blackfoot Nation by Hugh A. Dempsey.
Tales of Ghosts: First Nations Art in British Columbia by Ronald Hawker.
Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal by Patty Loew.
Overview of development of funding formula and an outline of three funding formula options describing the benefits, restrictions and research plan for each option.
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, Inaugural Edition, May 1997, pp. 87-101
Description
Brief historical background of the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation; looks at the social and economic change in remote hunting and trapping communities in Northwestern Ontario; and examines how the First Nations have increased the ability to address health and social service problems locally by assuming control of their health services.