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Aboriginal Forestry: Community Management as Opportunity and Imperative
The Aboriginal Role in the Development of Albertan Oil and Gas Reserves
As Long as the Rivers Run: Hydroelectric Development and Native Communities in Western Canada
Assertion of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights to Land and Resources: Addressing Deep-Rooted First Nations-Federal Conflict Through Sustained Dialogue
Athabasca Denesuline Inquiry - Aboriginal and Treaty Harvesting Rights: Public Release - July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains correspondence/letters, submissions, and oral transcripts in regards to the claim for formal recognition of treaty harvesting rights north of the 60th parallel. Commissioners include: Harry S. LaForme, Daniel J. Bellegarde, and P.E. James Prentice.
Athabasca Denesuline Special Report on the Treaty Harvesting Rights of the Fond Du Lac, Black Lake and Hatchet Lake First Nations
The B.C. Indian Position Paper (Draft Copy) [before August 14, 1970]
Blood Tribe/Kainaiwa Inquiry: 1889 Akers Surrender
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.
Canada - The Nisga'a Final Agreement in Brief
Canoe Lake First Nation, Primrose Lake Air Weapons Range Inquiry I, Public Release
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Documents consist of documents, correspondence/letters, claim submissions, and the final report in regards to the inquiry, which examined the seizure of 4,500 square miles of land for the weapons range. Commissioners include: Harry S. LaForme, Daniel J. Bellegarde, and P.E. James Prentice. [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.]
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 Contains historical documents, reports, legal submissions, correspondence/letters, transcripts, and maps regarding the specific land claim, concerning the surrender of reserve land, by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.]
Comparative Governance Structures Among Aboriginal Peoples in Canada
Discusses the self-government issues of legitimacy, power and resources, by using examples of current agreements. The article breaks the areas down in terms of: basic principles, rights through treaties, federal-provincial division of power, status of lands, legislative powers, and funding.
Related Material: Fact Sheet.
Confederation Debates, 1865-1949: Intermediate/Senior Mini Unit: Manitoba Provincial Edition
After reading background information, brief biographies and primary materials, students engage in a debate between the pro- and anti-Confederation factions. Activities align with Manitoba curriculum guides for Grade 6 Social Studies and Grade 11 History of Canada.
Defining Aboriginal Rights to Water in Alberta: Do They Still "Exist"? How Extensive are They?
Earth, Water, Air and Fire: Studies in Canadian Ethnohistory
The Economic Impact of the 1837 and 1842 Chippewa Treaties
Federal/Provincial Disputes, Natural Resources and the Treaty No. 3 Ojibway, 1867-1924
Finding Common Ground: A Critical Review of Land Use and Resource Management Policies in Ontario, Canada and their Intersection with First Nations
History of Modern Aboriginal Law
Indian Act and Treaties
Website includes links to three modules on treaties and five on the Indian Act and the reserve system.
Student worksheet for Indian Act and Treaties.
Introduction: Advocacy Research and Native Studies
Introduction: The Marriage of History and Law in R. v. Sioui
Land Conflict in the Uintah Basin: The Anglo and Native American Struggle For Control of the Uintah-Ouray Reservation's Natural Resources
History Thesis (M.Sc.)--Utah State University, 1998.
Modern Treaties in Canada
Links to six one-hour courses on comprehensive land claims agreements. Themes include general overview, modern treaties and land, self-government, and regional economics, modern treaty governments, and environment protection, regulation and assessment.
Native People in Areas of Internal National Expansion
Northern Studies 10: Module 4: Living Together
The Plight of Ainu, Indigenous People of Japan
Primrose Lake Air Weapons Range Report: Cold Lake First Nations Rejected Claim Inquiry, Canoe Lake Cree Nation Rejected Claim Inquiry
Rapport sur L'Enquête Relative aux Revendications de Cold Lake Polygone de Tir Aérien de Primrose Lake
Reconciliation and Third-Party Interests: Tsilhqot’in Nation v. British Columbia
Reflections on the Black Hills Claim
Reimagining History: "Righting" Treaty Wrongs
Based on the article Living Well Together by Aimée Craft and the special issue of Canada's History magazine Treaties and the Treaty Relationship Suitable for Grades 7 to 12.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Clarence Apsassin, Blueberry River Reserve
Saskatchewan First Nations and the Province's Resource Future: The Path to Economic Certainty
Site C Clean Energy Project: Treat 8 First Nations Comments; Post-Panel Stage Consultation
Toward the Reconciliation of Interests and Ambitions: Participating Treaty No. 6 First Nations Position Paper Regarding the Duty to Consult and Accommodate and Sharing Wealth and Benefits of Resources
Trick or Treaty?
Two Worlds Collide, 1850-1887
Discusses the US government's wanted treaties in order to gain control of land, the treaties signed within Montana, tribal strategies for survival, and clashes between government troops and Indigenous warriors.
Chapter from Montana: Stories of the Land by Krys Holmes.
Understanding the Definition and Scope of the Duty to Consult and Accommodate Today and How It Impacts You
Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs Aboriginal Title Curriculum Project
We Are All Treaty People
Special themed issue of Canada's History's children's magazine Kayak (September 2018). Suitable for ages 7-12.
What's the Deal with Treaties? A Lay Person's Guide to Treaty Making in British Columbia
What Treaty Eight Actually Says
Why Treaties Matter: Self-Government in the Dakota and Ojibwe Nations: Educator Guide for Grades 6-12
For use with the virtual exhibition Why Treaties Matter.