Adrian Hope has been active in Metis politics since the 1920s. He was involved in the organization of the Metis Association of Alberta, the Ewing Commission hearings, and the development of Metis colonies in Alberta.
Gives an example where the Ontario Provincial Police revealed that they had sent observers out to British Columbia to gain information on the crisis at Gustafsen Lake that they felt they could use for the occupation at the Ipperwash Provincial Park, under the assumption that these events, and people, were similar.
Labour/Le Travail, vol. 38, Special edition: Australia and Canada: Labour Compared, Fall, 1996, pp. [37]-53
Description
Compares policies that oppressed Aboriginal women in Australia and Canada during the 19th and 20th centuries. Special Joint issue with Labour History, volume 71.
Historical background and submission to Indian Claims Commission (ICC) whether Aht-Len-Jees I.R. 5 ceased to be a reserve by virtue of its dis-allowance by Commissioners Ditchburn and Clark, acting under the British Columbia Land Settlement Act. ICC recommended settlement be negotiated and fast tracked under the Specific Claims Policy. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Historical background, submissions and recommendations from the Indian Claims Commission (ICC) hearing to determine if population count for land entitlement was accurate at date-of-first-survey. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
A meeting of representatives from communities in northern Alberta, lying between the Peace and Athabasca Rivers.Discussion of their claims to mineral rights and to compensation for damage to environment by drilling crews, damage to trap lines, and removal of timber.
Jim Carriere is a resident of Cumberland House and worked for Jim Brady when the latter was a field officer for the CCF government. Carriere discusses Jim Brady's strengths and weaknesses, Brady's life in Cumberland House, speculates about Brady's death and his links with the Communist Party. He also talks about returning World War II veterans and their impact on the communities.
Mr. Phelps was the Minister of Natural Resources in the Saskatchewan CCF government from 1944 to 1948. He speaks of attempts to replace welfare in the north with programs for fish and fur marketing.
Three elders from Goodfish Lake Reserve talk about problems of defining accurate boundaries, their rights to a timber berth, and hay meadows which they believe are part of their reserve.
Comments on the report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP), which was two years overdue and cost about $10 million a year for six years.
Geographical Review, vol. 66, no. 3, July 1976, pp. 281-295
Description
Analysis of how reservations in USA were formerly held in trust by the Federal Government, however title has become progressively more complicated due to state and local jurisdiction.
[A Survey of the Contemporary Indians of Canada: Economic, Political, Educational Needs and Policies]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Dennis Madill]
no. Second Edition
Description
Discusses background to the report and responses to the recommendations contained in it.
Actual title of the report: A Survey of the Contemporary Indians of Canada: Economic, Political, Educational Needs and Policies.
A summary of what the Treaty #6 elders have said in interviews about the nature of the treaty and the rights guaranteed to the Indian people by treaty.
Acadiensis, vol. 26, no. 1, Autumn, 1996, pp. 92-101
Description
Review essay of:
Bitter Feast: Amerindians and Europeans in Northeaster North America, 1600-64 by Denis Delage.
Lost Harvests: Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers and Government Policy by Sarah Carter.
The Tangled Webs of History: Indians and the Law in Canada's Pacific Coast Fisheries by Diane Newell.
Shingwauk's Vision: A History of Native Residential Schoolsby J.R. Miller.
New Mexico Law Review, vol. 26, no. 169, 1996, pp. [169]-190
Description
Explains Aboriginal law and defines who is an Aboriginal. Presents results from questionnaire sent to faculty claiming Indian descent and teaching courses related to Aboriginal law in American law schools.
Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, vol. 7, no. 1, New Series, 1996, pp. 55-80
Description
Discusses strategies employed by the Chief in an effort to influence Canadian Indian Policy and ensure his peoples' livelihood during a time of rapid social and political change