[Legislative Summary (Research Branch, Libary of Parliament)] ; LS-415E
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mary C. Hurley
Government of Canada
Description
Gives the legislative history of Bill C-37; legislation that facilitates land claim settlements, particularily those resolving treaty land entitlement and specific claims.
Reports on Commission's first successful inquiry at Cold Lake and the guidelines used to verify treaty land entitlement claims. Complete issue on one pdf.
American Anthropologist, vol. 104, no. 1, March 2002, pp. 247-261
Description
Argues that since land claims force Aboriginal peoples to deal in the European concept of property, it has the effect of undermining the very principles that claimants are trying preserve.
Native Studies Review, vol. 2, no. 1, 1986, pp. 45-67
Description
Focuses on Commission's recommendations for dealing with, "The Indian people in the North of Ontario" and suggests circumstances and time may have eliminated any impact the recommendations could have achieved.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 17, no. 2, Autumn, 2002, pp. 143-165
Description
Illustrates, by use of a landmark court case, a parallel between 1492 and the present regarding First Nations in British Columbia and the recognition of Aborignal title.