Discusses how to effectively service Aboriginal people's needs, encourage good governance when exercising self-government, and incorporate respect for human and civil rights into governance structures while remaining culturally sensitive.
Suggests several strategies that aboriginal peoples might consider for research relating to their land, environment, resources and non-human life forms.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 3, no. 3, 2007, pp. 8-11
Description
Looks at an address on the issue of reconciliation in child welfare by Mr. Justice René Dussault, Quebec former Co-Chair of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 27, no. 2, 2007, pp. 511-514
Description
Book reviews of:
Indigenous Peoples and the Modern State by D. Champagne, K. Torjesen and S. Steiner.
Self-Determination: The Other Path for Native Americans edited by T. Anderson, B. Benson and T. Flanagan.
Scroll to page 511 to read review.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 21, no. 2, 2001, pp. 217-233
Description
Presents a brief overview of past government policies, changes under the current government and the potential for new culturally appropriate administrative systems.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 3, Self-Determination, 2001, pp. 56-66
Description
Article describes the history and development of India's federal policies, particularly towards indigenous peoples.
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Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 25, no. 5, September/October 2001, pp. 16-17
Description
Describes the launch of the National Indigenous Substance Misuse Council Inc (NISCM) which is geared to preventing alcohol and other substance abuse in Australia.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 3, Migration, 2007, pp. 26-31
Description
Looks at urbanization as a strategy to create a more self-determined Greenland with fewer ties to Denmark.
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International Institute for Sustainable Development
Description
Explores how Aboriginal people value the lands around them and how that knowledge and information can be incorporated into provincial land-use and resource management.
Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, vol. 13, no. 3, 2007, pp. 121-131
Description
Highlights potential problems and pitfalls which foreign policy analysts and practitioners should be aware of when seeking to learn from and about Indigenous diplomacies.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1-2, First Year of Evo Morales Presidency, June 2007, pp. 76-79
Description
Interview with the former parliamentary representative and Constituenty Assembly member from the Chiquitano people.
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Indigenous Affairs, no. 1-2, First Year of Evo Morales Presidency, June 2007, pp. 72-75
Description
Interview with the new vice-president of CIDOB (the Confederation of Indigenous Peoples of the Bolivian Oriente/Confereración de Pueblos Indígenas del Oriente Boliviano).
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The Canadian Geographer, vol. 51, no. 3, Fall, 2007, pp. 339-359
Description
Looks at residential schools and the people involved, as part of the policies of assimilation, enculturation or annihilation of Aboriginals. The author categorizes schools as 'intimate sites nested within Canadian colonial and nation-building agendas'.
American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 31, no. 1-2, [Aboriginal Peoples: Special Issue], Spring/Summer, 2001, pp. 11-13
Description
Explains various terms including: Status, non-status, Métis and Indian; explores differences and similarities between U.S. and Canadian government policies and terminologies.
Brief discussion of the political party's goals of modernization and establishment of a socialist society, which were carried out with minimal consultation with residents.
Introduction from CCF Colonialism in Northern Saskatchewan.
Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, vol. 13, no. 3, 2007, pp. 65-80
Description
Looks at multilateral and bilateral collaboration among the Inuit peoples of the circumpolar north with a focus on the Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC).
American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 31, no. 1-2, [Aboriginal Peoples: Special Issue], Spring/Summer, 2001, pp. 283-299
Description
Comments on the creation of Nunavut Territory and the benefits this presented to the Inuit people including renewed sense of pride, identity and autonomy.