Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, 1983, pp. 311-320
Description
Describes differences in the hunting territory between the Eastern James Bay Area and Southern Labrador and also notes distinctions regarding land tenure and rights.
Vancouver Island Pre-Confederation Treaties Conference, 2012
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
John Lutz
Cole Harris
Raymond Frogner
Louise Mandell
Description
Speakers discuss: ambiguity in both oral accounts and written versions of the Douglas Treaties; litigation arising from treaties; archival treatment of colonial documents pertaining to the treaties and the bound register; contradictory views about the issue of treaty annuities versus lump sum payments.
Followed by question and answer period.
Duration: 2:01:00.
Journal of Rural and Community Development, vol. 7, no. 1, Human Resources and Remote Indigenous Communities, 2012, pp. 93-109
Description
Looks at the Finnmark Act in 2005, the establishment of Finnmark Estate and contemporary Sami nature practices.
Follows two local women and their families.
Consists of an interview with non-Indian employed at the Gabriel Dumont Institute in Regina. At the time of the interview he was writing a book on the history of the Metis nation.
Ecological Economics, vol. 73, January 15, 2012, pp. 47-55
Description
Looks at influences contributing to the success and failure of ecotourism including shortages in human, financial and social capital, lack of economic benefits and land insecurity.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 7, no. 1, 1983, pp. 23-40
Description
Describes how this project, which included 6 dams, destroyed over 550 square miles of tribal land and displaced more than 900 Native American families.
BC Studies, no. 57, British Columbia a Place For Aboriginal Peoples?, Spring, 1983, pp. 24-37
Description
Looks at historical aboriginal property relations between two Tsimshian villages, pre-contact use of land and resources and Tsimshian social structure.
Reviews legal events from the January 1980 - Fall 1982 period, including the failure of Aboriginal efforts to prevent the passage of the Canada Act in English Courts.