Canada. Government of Canada and the Province of Saskatchewan
Description
Statute regarding settlement of land entitlement of select First Nations in Saskatchewan including: Keeseekoose, Muskowekwan, Ochapowace, Okanese, Piapot, Star Blanket, Yellowquill, Beardy's & Okemasis, Flying Dust, Little Pine, Moosomin, Mosquito Grizzly Bear's Head, Muskeg Lake, One Arrow, Pelican Lake, Red Pheasant, Saulteaux, Sweetgrass, Thunderchild, Witchekan Lake, Canoe Lake and English River and Nekaneet First Nation.
Understanding the Legacy of Métis Scrip: The Alberta Métis Perspective
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Jason Madden
Audrey Poitras
Description
Two presentations: "Métis Scrip and Alberta Métis" and "Understanding the Legacy of Métis Scrip: The Alberta Métis Perspective" followed by question and answer period.
Duration: 1:27:15.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 2, Shifting Cultivation, 2005, pp. 14-21
Description
Reports on biodiversity tour and discusses seed conservation by people living in a village located in the Khun Jae National Park.
To access this article, scroll down to page 14.
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 22, no. 4, April 1993, p. 15
Description
Conference explores the topic and makes recommendations to be presented at the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) 1993 World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna, Austria.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 13, no. 2, 1993, pp. 309-325
Description
Book review of: Native Liberty, Crown Sovereignty: The Existing Aboriginal Right of Self-Government by Bruce Clark and review of the article Claims to Territory in Colonial America in the book The Law of Nations and the New World by L. C. Green and Olive P. Dickason.
Discusses provincial government program which promoted adoption and fostering of Indigenous children in non-Indigenous homes as a response to increasing child welfare interventions which placed children into care.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 2, [Rethinking Blackness and Indigeneity in the Light of Settler Colonial Theory], May 2019, pp. 9-23
Description
Discussion on how settler colonial theory is being used as a starting out point in theorizing Indigeneity and Blackness with regard to sovereignty.
Documents on Canadian Arctic Sovereignty and Security ; no. 13
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Eskimo Affairs Committee
Description
Committee was formed in an effort to deal with public policy issues in the Northwest Territories with a particular focus on economic problems created by altering the Inuit's traditional lifestyle and the subsequent dependency on social transfer payments.
Shared Witsuit’en-Settler Relationships in Smithers 1913-1973
Shared Witsuït’en-Settler Relationships in Smithers 1913-1973: Project Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Tyler McCreary
Description
Reports information gathered about circumstances which led to relocation to an urban environment, experiences of living in the city in the early twentieth century, and establishment and displacement of "Indiantown".
Provides information about sustainable initiatives in various First Nations communities throughout Canada. The initiatives focus on economic, environmental, and social sustainability.
AlterNative, vol. 13, no. 1, March 2017, pp. 35-42
Description
Looks at Indigenous people as political actors enacting change through dissensus within the liberal democracies of Canada, Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and the United States.
Based on responses to questionnaire about knowledge of self-government, sources of information, and community's readiness for transition to self-government.
Focuses on the personal stories of four people who were taken from their homes and placed with non-Indigenous families, and the 2018 apology made by the Alberta provincial government.
Duration: 20:13.
Case comment on Brown v Canada (Attorney General), the class action suit in Ontario involving the removal of children from their families on reserve, and placing them with non-Indian adoptive families, and foster and group homes. At issue was whether the Federal government had breached fiduciary or common law duties to prevent loss of identity in post-placement period.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 25, no. 2, 2005, pp. 395-416
Description
Finds addressing the problem based on need perpetuates an old model of charity, failing to recognize there the larger issue of socio-economic disparity and need to incorporate self-determination and self-government into programming.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 17, no. 4, 1993, pp. 107-113
Description
Explains that the National Archives contains regional archives, in cities across the United States, in an attempt to preserve original records created by field offices of federal agencies and microfilm copies of records kept in Washington.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 2, Special Issue on Research Case Studies , 2005, pp. 1-14
Description
Article outlines steps the Coquille took to strengthen claims of tribal sovereignty by investment in education, active participation in academic research, and the re-establishment of relationships through potlatches (gift giving) ceremonies.
Indigenous Law Journal, vol. 4, no. 1, 2005, pp. 117-157
Description
Author compares the Australian High Court's unwillingness to accommodate claims of sovereignty or self-government with those of other common law countries, namely United States and Canada.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 9, no. 2, Autumn, 1993, pp. 37-43
Description
Argues that sovereignty is the glue that binds communities together and that the characters in James Welch's novels respond to an Indigenous specific concept of sovereignty.