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Addressing First Nations Governance Issues through Incremental Reform: Briefing Presentation - Draft
Beyond Blood: Rethinking Indigenous Identity by Pamela Palmater
Beyond Physical: Social Dimensions of the Water Crisis on Canada's First Nations and Considerations for Governance
Beyond the Indian Act: Restoring Aboriginal Property Rights
Blood Tribe/Kainaiwa Inquiry: Akers Surrender 1889 Claim, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains letters/memos, submissions, band council documents, and reports in regards to the dispute over the federal government taking over 440 acres of mineral-rich reserve land without full consent or compensation.
Bridging the Gap: Taxation and First Nation Governance
Canada's Idle No More Movement
Canupawakpa Dakota First Nation Turtle Mountain Surrender Claim - Public Edition, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contains historical documents, memos, reports, correspondence/letters, maps and submissions regarding validity of the 1909 surrender claim. Commissioners include: Roger J. Austine, Daniel J. Bellegarde, 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.]
CAP - On Canada's Indian Act
Carry The Kettle - 1905 Surrender - Public Edition, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contains historical documents, reports, legal submissions, correspondence/letters, transcripts, and maps regarding the specific land claim, concerning the surrender of reserve land, by Carry the Kettle First Nation. Commissioners include : Sheila Purdy, Alan Holman, and Jane Dickson-Gilmore. [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.]
Community Land Use Planning on First Nations Reserve and the Influence of Land Tenure: A Case Study with Penticton Indian Band
Constitutional Reform at the White Earth Nation
Cree Nations In Canada
Disenfranchised Spirit: A Theory and a Model
Duncan's First Nation Wrongful Surrender Claim, Public Edition, September 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contents consist of historical documents, maps, reports, legal documents, transcripts, correspondence/letters, submissions and the Inquiry Report in English and French versions. [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.]
Elder Brother and the Law of the People: Contemporary Kinship and Cowessess First Nation
Eskasoni First Nation Governance 4 of 4
The Exploratory Process on Indian Registration, Band Membership and Citizenship: Highlights of Findings and Recommendations
The Exploratory Process on Indian Registration, Band Membership and Citizenship: Reports of Participating Organizations
Exploring Water Governance and Management in Oneida Nation of the Thames (Ontario, Canada): An Application of the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework
Finding Solutions for the Legislative Gaps in Determining Rights to the Family Home on Colonially Defined Indigenous Lands
First Nations Income Assistance in Perspective: Assimilation, Active Measures and the Way Forward
First Nations Registration (Status) and Membership Research Report
Genocide, Assimilation, or Incorporation: Indigenous Identity and Modes of Resistance
Historical Development of the Tax Regimes of Maori Authorities in Aotearoa New Zealand and First Nations in Canada
Historical Highlights Leading to the Development of First Nations Education Law in Canada
Idle No More
Impacts of the 1985 Indian Act Amendments: A Case Study of Brokenhead Ojibway Nation
Looks at impacts of Bill C-31 including population, demography, membership, demand for programs and services, and key social and political changes. Chapter four 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.
In Praise of Taxes: The Link between Taxation and Good Governance in a First Nations Context
Indian Act Colonialism: A Century of Dishonour, 1869-1969
The Indian Act of 1876 Was Not Part of Treaty: A Treaty Resource Guide for Grade 4
Indian Lands Registration Manual: July 2013
Indian Registration, Membership, and Population Change in FirstNations Communities
Study looks at classification of membership codes, changes to membership rules, projected populations eligible under new rules, and implications of population changes. Chapter five 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.
Indian Registration: Unrecognized and Unstated Paternity
Looks at 1985 amendments to Indian Act. Chapter six 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.
Indian Status, Band Membership, First Nation Citizenship, Kinship, Gender, and Race: Reconsidering the Role of Federal Law
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.
Indigenizing the Academy: The Case of Grenfell Campus of Memorial University of Newfoundland and the Newfoundland Mi'kmaq Resurgence
Institutional Change on Canadian First Nations Reserves: Adoption of the Framework Agreement on First Nation Land Management
The Key Band, 1909 Surrender Inquiry - Public Release, August 2008
The Legal Obligations of Band Councils: The Exclusion of Off-Reserve Members from Per-Capita Distributions
Managing Land, Governing for the Future: Finding the Path Forward for Membertou
Matrimonial Real Property Issues On-Reserve
Provides general background and identifies key questions of policy. Chapter seven from Setting the Agenda for Change, vol. 2, which is also vol. 2 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series. Originally presented at the second annual Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2002.
Matrimonial Real Property on Reserve in Canada
Research paper discusses the Indian Act, provincial family laws, traditional Aboriginal property rights, and divorces.
Related Material: Fact Sheet.
Matrimonial Real Property Reform Overdue
Author examines the discrepancies between the Human Rights Act and the Indian Act regarding matrimonial property laws and reserve land.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.12.