Peepeekisis First Nation Inquiry File Hills Colony Claim (French Version)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
Final report examines historical background and submission to Indian Claims Commission (ICC) regarding whether the Crown breached its fiduciary obligation by allocating reserve land (IR 81) to people outside of the Band. ICC found Canada breached its obligations and recommended the claim be a negotiated under Canada's Specific Claims Policy. (French language version) Commissioners include: Alan C. Holman, Renee Dupuis, and Sheila G. Purdy.
[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.]
States that because colony was established on Peepeekisis reserve without permission, and students from other bands were brought there to live and farm, members of the original band were displaced and unable to use communal lands.
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Final report examines historical background and submission to Indian Claims Commission (ICC) regarding whether the Crown breached its fiduciary obligation by allocating reserve land (IR 81) to people outside of the Band. ICC found Canada breached its obligations and recommended the claim be a negotiated under Canada's Specific Claims Policy. Commissioners include: Alan C. Holman, Renee Dupuis, and Sheila G. Purdy. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
[Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC)]
Description
Shows locations and whether community is under the Indian Act, Land Management Act or is self-governing.
Insets for certain areas of British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Ontario.
Exploratory Process on Issues Relating to Indian Status Registration, Band Membership and Citizenship (Bill C-3)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Femmes Autochtones du Québec = Quebec Native Women Inc.
Description
Gives context of issues surrounding status and band membership, and highlights some of the discussion and proposed solutions which came out of the Exploratory Process on Issues Relating to Indian Status Registration, Band Membership and Citizenship (Bill C-3).
" ... explores the possibilities of treaty education for reconciliation with First Nations people, as corrective to the foundational myth of Canada and as a means of fostering ethically engaged citizenship."