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Alexis First Nation, TransAlta Utilities - Right of Way, Public Edition
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains statements of claim, correspondence/letters, maps and transcripts in regards to Calgary Power's (now TransAlta) access to electrical transmission right of way granted in the 1950s and 1960s. The Commissioners include: Roger J. Augustine, Daniel J. Bellegarde, Sheila G. Purdy.
The Benefits of Being Indian: Blood Quanta, Intermarriage, and Allotment Policy on the White Earth Reservation, 1889–1920
Blood Tribe/Kainaiwa Inquiry: Akers Surrender 1889 Claim, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains letters/memos, submissions, band council documents, and reports in regards to the dispute over the federal government taking over 440 acres of mineral-rich reserve land without full consent or compensation.
Carry The Kettle - 1905 Surrender - Public Edition, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contains historical documents, reports, legal submissions, correspondence/letters, transcripts, and maps regarding the specific land claim, concerning the surrender of reserve land, by Carry the Kettle First Nation. Commissioners include : Sheila Purdy, Alan Holman, and Jane Dickson-Gilmore. [These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]
Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women: Canada
'Doing the Right Thing': Balancing Intellectual Property Law, Customary Law and Indigenous Collections
Esketemc First Nation: Wright's Meadow Pre-Emption Inquiry
Ethnobotany, Institutional Ethnography, and the Knowledge of Ruling Relations
Exploitation of American Indian Symbols: A First Amendment Analysis
Finding Solutions for the Legislative Gaps in Determining Rights to the Family Home on Colonially Defined Indigenous Lands
Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies
Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity
Indian Specific Claims Commission: 2007-2008: Departmental Performance Report
Indigenous Peoples and Real Estate Valuation
Indigenous Research, Publishing, and Intellectual Property
The Indigenous World 2008
Intellectual Property and Aboriginal Peoples: Conflict or Compromise?
Discusses rights to traditional culture including skills, arts, beliefs, and knowledge of the environment and makes suggestions on approaches to the property debate.
Related Material: Fact Sheet.
Intellectual Property Issues in Archaeological Publication: Some Questions to Consider
International Law and Indigenous Knowledge: Intellectual Property, Plant Biodiversity, and Traditional Medicine
Inuit, Museum and Repatriation: One Bone at One Time
Justifications and Legal Considerations for the Repatriation of First Nation Material Culture in Canada
Land Rights NOT Mining Rights: Free Bob Lovelace and the KI 6
Listening to the Land: Land: Native American Literary Responses to the Landscape
Material Histories: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Marischal Museum, University of Aberdeen, 26-27 April 2007
Matrimonial Real Property on Reserve in Canada
Research paper discusses the Indian Act, provincial family laws, traditional Aboriginal property rights, and divorces.
Related Material: Fact Sheet.
Matrimonial Real Property Solutions
Nadleh Whut'en First Nation: Lejac School Inquiry
A Narrative Description of Contemporary Negotiations Between the Canadian Pacific Railway and Five Indian Bands Regarding Land Taxation and Land Tenure Rights in British Columbia
The Narrative of Nancy, A Cherokee Woman
Neskonlith, Adams Lake, and Little Shuswap Indian Bands Neskonlith Douglas Reserve Inquiry
"Privatize Reserve Lands? No. Improve Economic Development Conditions on Canadian Indian Reserves? Yes"
Protection of Navajo Sacred Objects
Recapturing the History and Rights of First Nations Peoples of British Columbia: A Political Analysis of Past and Present Relationships with the Dominion of Canada
Red Earth and Shoal Lake Cree Nations Quality of Reserve Lands Inquiry
Report by the Native Women’s Association of Canada on the Occasion of the Review of the Sixth and Seventh Reports of Canada on Its Compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
Report of the Mediation of the Sturgeon Lake First Nation Treaty Land Entitlement Negotiations
Report on the Pilot Project of the Michipicoten First Nation
Returning the Past: Repatriation of First Nations Cultural Property: Four Case Studies of First Nations Repatriation
Six Miles Deep: Land Rights of the Six Nations of the Grand River
Sturgeon Lake First Nation: 1913 Surrender Inquiry
Teacher Guide for High School for Use with the Educational DVD Contemporary Voices along the Lewis & Clark Trail
Film explores Tribal members' perspectives on traditional knowledge, history, the impact of early contact and westward expansion, the importance of language, and cultural continuity.
Three Strikes But Not Out: Judicial Losses and Women's Political Activism Ahead of the Charter
[To Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Premier of the Dominion of Canada: From the Chiefs of the Shuswap, Okanagan and Couteau Tribes of British Columbia, Presented at Kamloops, B.C. August 25, 1910]
Text of letter protesting the misappropriation of land, failure to create treaties, and the policies of the B.C. government. Site also includes information on laws and customs, historical and political context, and timeline from 1763 to 2009.