Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 24, no. 1, Q epethet ye Mestiyexw, 2000, pp. 45-56
Description
Explores the concept of the nature of art as it relates to the experience of Indigenous peoples, specifically the residents of the Ashcroft First Nation (British Columbia).
Topics discussed by Nisga'a Tribal Council Chairman, include Aboriginal title, ownership, courts, rights, and customary law.
Interview first published in Multinational Monitor, vol. 13, no. 9, September, 1992.
Three photographs (2 scanned here) of David Ahenakew, president of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians, speaking at an NDP convention in Saskatoon, November 19, 1977.
An Act to give effect to the Nisga’a Final Agreement
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Government of Canada
Government of British Columbia
Nisga First Nation
Description
Legislation bringing into effect the Treaty and land Agreement among Canada, British Columbia and the Nisga'a First Nation concerning land settlement and taxation matters.
[Constituting the Commons: Crafting Sustainable Commons in the New Millennium: Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property ; 8th
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nancy J. Turner
James T. Jones
Description
Discusses different cultural models of land and resource ownership by the Salishan, the Nuu-Chah-Nulth, Kwakwaka'waka, Haida, Nisga'a and additional northwest coast peoples.
Assessment based on sample of approved housing proposals from First Nations which had been under policy for at least two years, visits to two Indian and Northern Affairs regional offices and nine communities, and analysis of INAC data.
Features two cultures, the Inuit and the Haida, and their history, language, community life, self-government, and their relationship with the land, hunting and the sea.
Anthropology of Work Review, vol. 21, no. 2, June 2000, pp. 12-17
Description
Discusses Tsimshian women's experience as laborers and producers and their exclusion from wage work and independent harvesting over the past 100 years.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 2, no. 1, 1977, pp. 8-18
Description
Discusses Roger Williams' challenges to Puritans' assertion that they had jurisdiction over both Indigenous peoples and their lands, and uses the conflict between the Narragansett and dissident Rhode Islanders as a case study.
Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Audra Simpson
Description
Looks at a community consultation process that is attempting to move away from the 'blood quantum' model of descent to a more cultural and kinship-based one.
Chapter 6 from Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples edited by Duncan Ivison, Paul Patton and Will Sanders. To access chapter, scroll to page 113.
Mr. Isadore, aged 72, a former councillor on Drift Pile River Reserve, recounts a history of Drift Pile River Reserve, and of other reserves around Lesser Slave Lake.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 20, no. 2, 2000, pp. 437-454
Description
Argues that the trend toward organizing along language specific lines is misleading and limiting because it oversimplifies familial and linguistic relationships.