Idle No More Movement Seeks to Educate Canadians With Teach-ins and Panel Discussions
Comments on the protest rallies against omnibus Bills C-38 and C-45.
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Comments on the protest rallies against omnibus Bills C-38 and C-45.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.15.
Comments on the Idle No More movement started by four Saskatchewan women to protest Prime Minister Stephen Harper's omnibus bills.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.12.
Provides statistics on population distribution, propensity to move by age, sex, and remoteness of community, and migration to more accessible regions.
Chapter fifteen from Moving Forward, Making a Difference, vol. 1, which is also vol. 3 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series.
Originally presented at the second annual Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2006.
Advocates having provinces provide First Nations reserves with technical assistance, the testing of drinking water, inspections and water quality enforcement on a cost recovery basis as one option to addressing safe drinking water issues.
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Discusses how legislation such as the Indian Act, with its arbitrary rules about who is considered to be an "Indian", has impacted relationships and identity in Aboriginal communities. Chapter seven from Moving Forward, Making a Difference, vol. 3, which is also vol. 5 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series. Originally presented at the second annual Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2006.
Discusses the history of Indigenous engagement with media and telecommunication policy and looks at how a consortium composed of academic researchers and First Nations technology organizations used hearings held by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to bring three issues to the forefront: open access to transport networks; subsidy support for First Nations community networks; and the need for consultation with Indigenous communities about infrastructure development and service upgrades taking place in their territories.
Discusses Joseph Zépherin LaRocque, born in Lebret, Saskatchewan, who was one of the very few Métis vernacular historians writing in the early 20th century.