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Bill S-3 - Indian Act Amendments (elimination of sex-based inequities in registration)
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
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 Contains historical documents, memos, reports, correspondence/letters, maps and submissions regarding validity of the 1909 surrender claim.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 Contains historical documents, reports, legal submissions, correspondence/letters, transcripts, and maps regarding the specific land claim, concerning the surrender of reserve land, by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.]
Contesting the Colonial Order on the Canadian Prairies: Government Policy, Indigenous Resistance and the Administration of Treaty 6, 1870-1890
The Disposition of the Ladies: Mi'kmaw Women and the Removal of the King's Road Reserve, Sydney, Nova Scotia
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 Contents consist of historical documents, maps, reports, legal documents, transcripts, correspondence/letters, submissions and the Inquiry Report in English and French versions.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.]
Eskasoni First Nation Governance 4 of 4
Finding Solutions for the Legislative Gaps in Determining Rights to the Family Home on Colonially Defined Indigenous Lands
First Nations Registration (Status) and Membership Research Report
From Recognition to Reconciliation: Essays on the Constitutional Entrenchment of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights
Genocide, Assimilation, or Incorporation: Indigenous Identity and Modes of Resistance
The Impact of Tax Exemptions for First Nations Reserves
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
The Key Band, 1909 Surrender Inquiry - Public Release, August 2008
Manitoba Relationship Stories: When First Nations and Local Governments Plan Together
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.
The Nature and Legal Capacity of Pimicikamak and Its Government
New Brunswick Aboriginal Peoples Council Summary Report from Collaborative Process on Indian Registration, Band Membership and First Nation Citizenship
Position Paper on Bill S-3: An Act to amend the Indian Act (elimination of sex-based inequities in registration)
Presentation to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs Re: Bill S-3: An Act to amend the Indian Act (elimination of sex-based inequities in registration)
"Privatize Reserve Lands? No. Improve Economic Development Conditions on Canadian Indian Reserves? Yes"
Reply to Issues 2, 3, 16 & 18: Indigenous Women and Women in Detention: Report to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the Occasion of the Committee's Eighth and Ninth Periodic Review of Canada
Deals with continuing sex discrimination in the Indian Act, repeal of section 67 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, social and economic conditions of Indigenous women and girls, and issues surrounding incarceration of women.