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Chiefs Reject Executive-Negotiated Governance Plan
Reports on the varied reasons why First Nations chiefs rejected the Indian Affairs Minister’s proposed joint governance consultation process to change the Indian Act.
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Church Woes in US Could Help Lawsuits in Canada
Discusses whether the federal government will choose to initiate alternative dispute resolution as opposed to litigation in resolving the 700 Indian Residential school lawsuits in British Columbia.
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Dynamics of Aboriginal Land Use Institutions: The Rise and Fall of Community Control Over Reserve Systems in the Lil'Wat Nation, Canada
Feds to Abandon 30 Negotiation Tables: Minister Robert Nault Encourages Lively Debate on Proposed Legislation
Focuses on Minister of Indian Affairs’ decision to end ongoing negotiations with First Nations leaders largely due to time already spent and the inability to reach an agreement.
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First Nations' Self-Administered Policing in Canada: Laying the Groundwork for a Nation-Wide Case Studies Approach
Includes brief case studies of police services in Tsuu T'ina, the Six Nations, the Akwesasne Mohawk, the Huron Wendake, the Timiskaming and the Whapmagoostui Cree.
Fiscal Management Law Major Native Milestone
Government Setting a Trap, Says Professor [First Nations Fiscal and Statistical Management Act]
Analyses of the federal government's draft proposal of an act, seen by some, as an attempt to fore-go some fiduciary responsibilities by giving First Nations governments the right to employ taxation to their members.
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Iati-Onkwehonwe: Blood Quantum, Membership and the Politics of Exclusion in Kahnawake
"Improving the Treaty Process" : Report of the Tripartite Working Group
Indigenous Peoples: Issues of Definition
Mohawk Family Hopes To Reclaim Identity in Canadian Court
"More Mohawk Than My Blood": Citizenship, Membership and the Struggle Over Identity in Kahanawake
Navajo Peacemaking History, Development, and Possibilities for Adjudication-Based Systems of Justice: An Interview With James Zion
Oral Intervention by Sharon Venne on Behalf of the Lubicon Cree, extensive appendices included providing history of the claim.
Rhetorical Exclusion: The Government's Case Against American Indian Activists, AIM, and Leonard Peltier
The Rule of Law and Aboriginal Rights: The Case of the Chippewas of Nawash
Saskatchewan Veterans Reach Out to Country
Presents the views held by the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations and the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs regarding unfulfilled veterans’ benefits. The feeling is that First Nations veterans need to get organized, on a national level, to lobby the federal government in order to be heard.
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Smoke Case Metaphor for Canadian Racism
Survey of Documents Prepared by the Claims and Historical Research Centre
The Ta'an Kwach'an Council: Final Agreement Among the Government of Canada, the Ta'an Kwach'an Council and the Government of the Yukon
The Ta'an Kwach'an Council Self-Government Agreement: Among the Ta'an Kwach'an Council and Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada and the Government of the Yukon
Taxation and Representation: Non-Native Leaseholders on Indian Reserves
Traditional Methods of Determining Tribal Membership
Transfer of Health Programs to First Nations and Inuit Communities: Handbook 1 - An Introduction to Three Approaches
Transfer of Health Programs to First Nations and Inuit Communities: Handbook 2 - The Health Services Transfer
Transferring of Health Programs to First Nations and Inuit Communities: Handbook 3 - After the Transfer - The New Environment
Treaty Referendum Questions Called 'Ridiculous'
Questions a referendum proposed by B. C. treaty negotiators, arguing that the rights of a minority (First Nations) were being placed in front of a majority (constituents) and that some questions asked address rights already affirmed in Canadian courts and the Constitution.
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