Aboriginal Communities / Mineral Companies / Governments Working Together: A Checklist to Assist Mineral Companies Active in Areas Near Aboriginal Communities
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Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
Description
Provides a checklist that has been developed to provide interested companies with some guidance regarding relationships and communication with Aboriginal people.
Listing of the healing lodges operated by Correctional Service of Canada; positive results have been observed in the areas recidivism, conditional release and revocation.
Canadian Diversity=Diversitié canadienne, vol. 7, no. 3, One Path, Many Directions: The Complex and Diverse Nature of Contemporary Aboriginal Reality, Fall, 2009, pp. 35-42
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Uses the NWT Official Languages Act, as an example, to show it is possible to revitalize 55 Aboriginal languages using statutory legislation.
Scroll down to page 35 to read article.
Research Report (Correctional Service of Canada) ; no. R-217
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
David D. Varis
Dan Kunic
Description
Cohort consisted of Program participants who were released to the community on day parole, full parole, and statutory release. Study assessed whether taking part in program reduced the risk of returning to substance abuse and results were compared to Aboriginal offenders who had been enrolled in the moderate and high intensity National Substance Abuse Programs.
Produced as a result of dissatisfaction with the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs' engagement process for the development of proposed legislative framework for drinking water in First Nation communities. Looks at three types of water-related rights: water, self-government, and adequate levels of environment protection.
Provides an overview of the current situation, describing five pathways to involvement, critiques present preventative/intervention methods and discusses alternate approaches.
Borderlands E - Journal, vol. 8, no. 1, 2009, pp. 1-8
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Explores the dichotomy between cultural relativism and universalism and examines how these tensions are used to legitimize assimilation by the Australian colonial state.
Australasian Canadian Studies, vol. 27, no. 1-2, Globalising Indigeneity: New Research Directions, 2009, pp. 1-4
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Keynote speaker's address opens this special issue which aims to showcase the depth and breadth of Indigenous Studies in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.
Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 6, no. 2, Fall, 2009, pp. 20-24
Description
Looks at processes and procedures meant to ensure the First Nation is involved, consulted and accommodated while De Beer's Victor Diamond Mine operates.
AlterNative, vol. 5, no. 2, Ke Ala Hou: Breaking Trail in Hawaiian Research and Development, 2009, pp. 138-155
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Discusses the origin and overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii, and examines how the Ali'i (native Hawaiian chiefs) used their knowledge of law to advance their own existing Indigenous structure.
[ Aboriginal Self-Determination?: An Assessment of Enabling Legislation Permitting First Nations to Assume Some Degree of Control over Their Lands, Resources, Moneys and Development]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
David K. Laidlaw
Description
Includes: primary (legislation and jurisprudence case law) and secondary sources.
Argues that the values, approaches and conclusions grounded in traditional knowledge, should be incorporated into the negotiation and implementation of international agreements and decision-making processes.
Research Report (Saskatchewan School Boards Association) ; no. 09-07
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Joan Bellegarde
Description
Looks at historical reasons behind the tax exempt status provided through the Indian Act, and the applications and impacts on recruitment of First Nations teachers and other staff.
Looks at the fundamental elements of Iroquois society, and the founding constitution of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, which provides an efficient institution of democratic governance, social and economic stability, and a moral equation to achieve peace.
Global Networks, vol. 9, no. 1, January 2009, pp. 117-136
Description
Discusses the phenomena of cultural uptake of the drink, its use for nontraditional practices and subsequent ramifications in the areas of indigenous knowledge, cultural appropriation and intellectual property.
Website includes resources, information, publications and reports on issues that are integral to modern treaty making in British Columbia. Includes Aboriginal rights, self government, land and resources, fishing, forestry and financial.
Mamow Na-nan-da-we-ki-ken-chi-kay-win: Searching Together Report
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Author/Creator
Mamow Sha-way-gi-kay-win North South Partnership for Children
Description
Assessment focuses on six key areas: livelihoods, infrastructure, community participation, education/recreation, children and parents and mental and physical health.
Guide provides Aboriginal perspective on "consultation in good faith" and outlines practices needed to gain positive results for First Nations in British Columbia.
Report provides suggestions of how to promote the meaningful involvement of First Nations in the environmental assessment processes with respect to land and resources.