Inter-Agency Support Group on Indigenous Issues (IAGS)
Description
Framework for assisting with United Nations operational activities and programs at the country level regarding human rights-based and culturally sensitive development for and with indigenous peoples.
Research Program of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Benita Cohen
Description
Discusses the community's experience with controlling health care delivery beginning with administration of its health centre in 1980 and during the three-year period after signing a health transfer agreement with the federal government.
International Journal of Canadian Studies, no. 39-40, Culture - Natures in Canada / Culture - natures au Canada, 2009, pp. 137-159
Description
Concludes that relationship of two groups has evolved through four phases: confrontation, relationship building, becoming allies, and shifting terrains.
Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
J. R. Miller
Description
Article from 1993 Conference proceedings, discussing a range of historical and contemporary events.
Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Aboriginal Governments in Canada Project
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Andrew Bear Robe
Description
Consists of community profile, description of traditional, recent and current (at that time) administrative processes, and discussion of fiscal relationships.
Pediatric Clinics of North America, vol. 56, no. 6, Health Issues in Indigenous Children: An Evidence Based Approach for the General Pediatrician, December 2009, pp. 1539-1559
Description
Historical overview of treaty obligations and the link to health care.
Pediatric Clinics of North America, vol. 56, no. 6, Health Issues in Indigenous Children: An Evidence Based Approach for the General Pediatrician, December 2009, pp. 1561-1576
Description
Overview of historical, political, legislation and policy affecting Aboriginal child health.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 18, no. 2, March/April 1994, pp. 18-19
Description
Looks at the reasons for removal, the loss of culture and identification, and continuing effects on adult children. Also discusses the organization Link-Up that assists Aboriginal people in finding their family.
University of the Fraser Valley Research Review, vol. 2, no. 2, Through Students Eyes: Selected Papers from the Stó:lō Ethnohistory Field School, Spring, 2009, pp. [73]-94
Description
Traces history of welfare, Aboriginal people and perceptions of stigma.
Children's Geographies, vol. 7, no. 2, May 2009, pp. 123-140
Description
Focuses on the centrality of Indigenous children and related concepts of childhood to colonial projects in Canada and, more specifically, in the province of British Columbia.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 43, no. 2, Spring, 2009, p. 137
Description
Examines problems that have confronted the Nunavut Housing Corporation, and looks at program and policy initiatives undertaken to address the situation.
Discusses the evaluation findings and recommendations regarding the impacts of comprehensive land claim agreements and the extent to which the objectives have been achieved.
Teaching Education, vol. 20, no. 1, Special Issue: Indigenous Education, 2009, pp. 7-29
Description
Profiles Native American communities, tribal sovereignty and relationship to the federal government, and explains the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001.
Identifies problems in areas of time taken for processing applications and returning decisions on their success or failure, increasing rates of denial of status, and falling rate of restorations for women who lost status as a result of marriage
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 18, no. 2, March/April 1994, p. 26
Description
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Committee to look at report and travel around Australia talking to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people about state and territory implementation of recommendations.
Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
James Youngblood Henderson
pp. 52-62
Description
Article from 1993 Conference proceedings, considers the authority and role federal, provincial and Treaty orders play in Canada and these three orders must work together for positive change to occur.
Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.
National Collaborating Centre For Aboriginal Health (NCCAH)
Description
Fact sheet discusses collecting the right kind of data to effectively meet the needs of children, families and communities receiving services from the First Nations Child and Family Services agencies.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 2, Spring, 1988, pp. 27-29
Description
Discusses the initial phase of federal government involvement in the production and marketing of Inuit art.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll down to appropriate page.
Compares principles of good governance to traditional Aboriginal governance prior to contact. Uses the principles to move forward the reconciliation process.
Discusses fundamental elements of governance and good governance, principles in international human rights law, and argues that Western political theory and First Nations governance may, in fact, complement and correct each other.
[Modular Backgrounder] (Parliamentary Information and Research Service) ; PRB 09-12E
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mary C. Hurley
Description
Includes very brief history (1876-1996), overview of developments (1996-2009), discussion of outstanding matters and list of selected references for further information.
2009 version.
Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. 26, no. 1, 1994, pp. 40-58
Description
Identifies and examines two main discrepancies in the federal government's Indian band governance policy during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
File contains 4 negatives from a meeting of the Indian and Metis Saskatchewan Association of Local Northern Governments, presumably held in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan on May 12, 1988. Two scanned images show meeting participants at the conference table.
Identifies key performance indicators across six thematic areas: health and well-being, environment, education, economy, governance and infrastructure.
Reports include:
Cold Lake and Canoe Lake (Primrose Lake Air Weapons Range) Inquiries, Interim Ruling: Athabasca Denesuline,
Treaty Harvesting Rights Inquiry, Related Materials on Specific Claims, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada / Outstanding Business: A Native Claims Policy - Specific Claims, First Nations Submission on Claims, Response of Minister Siddon, March 21, 1991. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Book review of: Indian Education in Canada. Volume 2: The Challenge. Nakoda Institute Occasional Paper No. 2 edited by Jean Barman, Yvonne Hebert, Don McCaskill