Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference ; 81st, 2009
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Christopher Adams
Loleen Berdahl
Greg Poelzer
Description
Examines party preferences and reasons for variations. Data sources were aggregate Elections Manitoba vote returns in 2007 provincial election and survey conducted between March 2005 and December 2008.
Website includes resources, information, publications and reports on issues that are integral to modern treaty making in British Columbia. Includes Aboriginal rights, self government, land and resources, fishing, forestry and financial.
Report provides suggestions of how to promote the meaningful involvement of First Nations in the environmental assessment processes with respect to land and resources.
Native Studies Review, vol. 18, no. 1, 2009, pp. 139-167
Description
Discusses how the treaty process has successfully evolved through a series of institutional changes which include the development of effective working relationships between Canada, British Columbia and the First Nations Summit.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 31, no. 3, Fall, 1996, p. 192
Description
Discussion of implications for Canada, if Quebec were to leave Confederation and how Canada would still be required to fulfil its obligations to Aboriginal Peoples.
Contends that the Department of Indian Affairs has a plan to change the rules governing First Nations, but suggests that Native people should have the right to develop their own democratic self-government.
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 86, October 1996, pp. 1362-1364
Description
Asserts that the Indian Health Service (IHS) should be the health system of choice for all American citizens, and recalls the many political events that has affected the BIA's budget and mandate.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 4, 1996, pp. 121-144
Description
Argues that the Native Americans persistent wish to preserve culture and identity proved to be the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) best tool in the right to a separate ethnic identity.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20 , no. 2, 1996, pp. 59-105
Description
Discusses the lack of existing government documentation, regarding federal Indian law, that would provide the knowledge necessary for Native Americans to negotiate on an equal level.
This Isn't Consultation, It's the Elimination of Métis/Indigenous Rights, MN-S Charges
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Warren Goulding
Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 4, April 2009, pp. 9-10
Description
Comments on the duty to consult and the opportunity by the government to see that Métis and First Nations people are involved in the province and the conflicts that have arisen during this process.
Article located by scrolling to page 9 and 10.
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.
Canadian Journal of Political Science, vol. 42, no. 2, June 2009, pp. 417-442
Description
Discusses a Canadian case study that looks at the importance of judicial factors to the Indigenous land claims policy process and the uncertainty of government negotiating behaviour.
Looks at the mainstreaming of Indigeneity along indigenous policymaking lines in New Zealand and Canada by examining self determining autonomy models and state determination governance models.
Australasian Canadian Studies, vol. 27, no. 1-2, Globalising Indigeneity: New Research Directions, 2009, pp. 55-83
Description
Theorizes the necessity and benefits of an Indigenous grounded analysis (IGA) as policy making framework.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 55.
Discusses the resource revenue sharing policy that will provide a process where one or more Aboriginal groups will receive a negotiated share of the mineral tax revenue from certain new mining projects.