Act allows signatory First Nations the authority to create their own system for making reserve land allotments as well as the authority to deal with matrimonial interests or rights.
Current as of May 12, 2016.
Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing - Te Mauri: Pimatisiwin, vol. 1, no. 1, Healing Our Spirit Worldwide, The Seventh Gathering, August 2016, pp. 83-96
Description
Argues that despite government rhetoric, Australia has failed to confront the racism shown in its past and current treatment of Aboriginals, and little progress has been made toward creating a new relationship.
Journal of Global Indigeneity, vol. 2, no. 2, Global Solidarity Symposium, 2016
Description
Presentation by the Director of the Centre for Sami Research, University of Umea, Sweden at the Global Solidarity Symposium, State University of New York, November 2016.
Duration: 54:42.
Reconciliation and the Métis Conference [Session Four]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Adam Gaudry
Brenda Gunn
Darren O'Toole
Description
Gaudry discusses the concept of Wicihitowin as used to resolve a 19th century conflict between the Métis and the Dakota. Gunn discusses how international law relates to treaties signed with Indigenous peoples in Canada. O'Toole discusses whether Section 31 of The Manitoba Act constituted a treaty.
Duration: 1:52:03.
Module Twelve: Land Claims, Ownership and Co-Management
[Bachelor of Circumpolar Studies (BCS) 331: Contemporary Issues of the Circumpolar World I]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ken Coates
Greg Poelzer
Description
Discussion of land tenure rights and systems, and conflicts and outcomes of disputes including key court decisions, legislation and modern treaties.
Developed for class delivered by the University of the Arctic.
Agreement to improved government relations with Aboriginal communities regarding decisions about land use, resource use and revenue-sharing in British Columbia.
Links to historical information, maps, newspaper articles, photographs and video clips documenting Aboriginal title and rights in British Columbia. Includes documents relating to the McKenna McBride Royal Commission (1913-1916).
Documentary about the Federal government's seizure of the Young Chippewayan Band's land and the subsequent sale of it to settlers and the relationship which develops between the Band and the people of Laird, Saskatchewan as they work together to resolve the issue.
Duration: 32:33.
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 4, no. 2, The Right to Free, Prior & Informed Consent, May 2016, pp. 42-49
Description
Looks at two examples of free, prior and informed consent evolving in Canadian law: the Saugeen Ojibway Nation in Ontario, and the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in Alberta.
Text of the principles, the First Nation, the Government of Canada and the province of British Columbia, agreed are to be used in negotiation of the final agreement.