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Aboriginal Forestry: Community Management as Opportunity and Imperative
Aboriginal Participation in Forest Management: Not Just Another Stakeholder
Aboriginal Peoples: Fact and Fiction
The Aboriginal Role in the Development of Albertan Oil and Gas Reserves
Aboriginal Water Rights Primer
Alberta Authorized Resource List and Annotated Bibliography: Aboriginal Studies 10-20-30
Approaches to Teaching American Indian Histories and Cultures: Classroom Resources Generated by Teachers in Rapid City Area Schools
Athabasca Denesuline Inquiry - Aboriginal and Treaty Harvesting Rights: Public Release - July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains correspondence/letters, submissions, and oral transcripts in regards to the claim for formal recognition of treaty harvesting rights north of the 60th parallel. Commissioners include: Harry S. LaForme, Daniel J. Bellegarde, and P.E. James Prentice.
Athabasca Denesuline Special Report on the Treaty Harvesting Rights of the Fond Du Lac, Black Lake and Hatchet Lake First Nations
Augustine Yellow Sun and Joe Poor Eagle Interview 2
B.C. First Nations Studies [Textbook]
The B.C. Indian Position Paper (Draft Copy) [before August 14, 1970]
Blood Tribe/Kainaiwa Inquiry: 1889 Akers Surrender
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.
Boundaries of the Reservation: Social, Political and Geographical Considerations for Defining the Limits of the Keweenaw Bay Chippewa Reservation
Canada - The Nisga'a Final Agreement in Brief
Canadian Aboriginal Law: Creating Certainty in Resource Development
Canoe Lake First Nation, Primrose Lake Air Weapons Range Inquiry I, Public Release
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Documents consist of documents, correspondence/letters, claim submissions, and the final report in regards to the inquiry, which examined the seizure of 4,500 square miles of land for the weapons range. Commissioners include: Harry S. LaForme, Daniel J. Bellegarde, and P.E. James Prentice. [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.]
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.]
Changing the Culture of Forestry in Canada: Building Effective Institutions for Aboriginal Engagement in Sustainable Forest Management
Columbus' Ghost: Past Infringements and the Duty to Consult
Comments on the Draft Nisga'a Treaty
Comparative Governance Structures Among Aboriginal Peoples in Canada
Discusses the self-government issues of legitimacy, power and resources, by using examples of current agreements. The article breaks the areas down in terms of: basic principles, rights through treaties, federal-provincial division of power, status of lands, legislative powers, and funding.
Related Material: Fact Sheet.
Compensation in Cases of Infringement to Aboriginal and Treaty Rights
Confederation Debates, 1865-1949: Intermediate/Senior Mini Unit: Manitoba Provincial Edition
After reading background information, brief biographies and primary materials, students engage in a debate between the pro- and anti-Confederation factions. Activities align with Manitoba curriculum guides for Grade 6 Social Studies and Grade 11 History of Canada.
Confederation Debates, 1865-1949: Intermediate/Senior Mini Unit: Saskatchewan Provincial Edition
After reading background information, brief biographies and primary materials, students engage in a debate between the pro- and anti-Confederation factions. This edition is aligned with the Saskatchewan provincial curriculum for History 30: Canadian Studies, Native Studies 10, and Native Studies 30.
The Constitutional Right of an Enriched Livelihood
Domesticating Doctrines: Aboriginal Peoples After the Royal Commission
Earth, Water, Air and Fire: Studies in Canadian Ethnohistory
Federal/Provincial Disputes, Natural Resources and the Treaty No. 3 Ojibway, 1867-1924
Finding Common Ground: A Critical Review of Land Use and Resource Management Policies in Ontario, Canada and their Intersection with First Nations
First Nations Right to Timber With Respect to the Management of Lands for Hunting, Fishing & Livelihood, and Housing: Case Law Summary
Case law summary of the major Aboriginal rights and title litigation, and an outline of the resulting forest and range agreements that British Columbia has entered into with community members.
First Nations Should be Regarded as Partners in Creating Prosperity
From Dream to Reality: The Story of Treaty Land Entitlement
Full Circle: First Nations, Métis, Inuit Ways of Knowing: A Common Threads Resource
The Government of Alberta's Policy on Consultation with First Nations on Land and Natural Resource Management, 2013
The Governor's Letters: Uncovering Colonial British Columbia
Grade 12 Current Topics in First Nations, Métis and Inuit Studies: A Foundation for Implementation
Grade Seven Treaty Education Learning Resource
Includes key questions, outcomes and indicators, "Understanding Treaties in a Contemporary Context" inquiry questions about treaty relationships, spirit and intent, historical context, and treaty promises and provisions, teacher background information, and suggested resources.
Grade Three Treaty Education Learning Resource
Includes key questions, outcomes and indicators, "Exploring and Challenges and Opportunities in Treaty Making" inquiry questions about treaty relationships, spirit and intent, historical context, and treaty promises and provisions, teacher background information, and suggested resources.
History of Modern Aboriginal Law
Honouring the Queen's Flag: A Legal and Historical Perspective on the Nisga'a Treaty
Hydroelectric Power and Indian Water Rights on the Prairies
Indian Act and Treaties
Website includes links to three modules on treaties and five on the Indian Act and the reserve system.
Student worksheet for Indian Act and Treaties.
The Indian Act of 1876 Was Not Part of Treaty: A Treaty Resource Guide for Grade 4
Indian Reserved Water Rights
Indigenous Education and Environmental Issues in Saskatchewan: Resources
Indigenous Perspectives Education Guide
Teacher's resource includes lesson plans, classroom activities, links to online resources, and worksheets divided into five sections with associated themes: human geography (Indigenous peoples, civilizations and territories; contact to 1763 (encounters with Europeans); 1763 to 1876 (oral histories and biographies); 1876 to 1914 (policies and politics); 1914 to 1982 (separate and unequal); and 1980s to present day (toward reconciliation).