Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Neil Valance
BC Studies, no. 195, Autumn, 2017, pp. 156-158
Description
Book review of New Treaty New Tradition by Carwyn Jones and Fragile Settlements by Amanda Nettelbeck, Russell Smandych, Louis A. Knafla, and Robert Foster.
Entire review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 156.
Ngapartji Ngapartji: Finding Ethical Approaches to Research Involving Indigenous Peoples, Australian Perspectives
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Gina Louise Hawkes
David Pollock
Barry Judd
Peter Phipps
Elinor Assoulin
ab-Original, vol. 1, no. 1, 2017, pp. 17-41
Description
Article explores the process of integrating ethical research frameworks for engaging Indigenous communities into academic institutions. Authors use five personal vignettes to examine the potential pitfalls related to integrating Indigenous values knowledge systems with Western legal practices.
North American Border Challenges: Terrorists/Drugs/Trade & American Indians
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Laurence Armand French
Magdaleno Manzanarez
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 28, no. 1, Summer, 2017, p. [?]
Description
Paper given at the Association of Border Studies - 1st World Conference, Joensuu, Finland, June 9 - 13, 2014. Reports on laws that have restricted cross-border movement.
Ontario First Nations Special Education Review Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ontario First Nations
Description
Synthesizes published literature and information gathered from educators, administrators and service organizations. Focus is on funding.
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Nine: Introduction and Directions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
"Our Hope and Our Protection": Misko-biiwaabik (Copper) and Tribal Sovereignty in Michigan
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Erik M. Redix
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 3, Summer, 2017, pp. 224-249
Description
Argues that the Smithsonian's refusal to repatriate a sacred boulder illustrates how the Lake Superior Ojibwe experienced colonialism in that its removal was part of the exploitation of rich copper deposits in the area.
Our Women and Girls Are Sacred: Interim Report: The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
E-Books
Author/Creator
Marion Buller
Michèle Audette
Brian Eyolfson
Qajaq Robinson
Over-represented But Not Understood: Sentencing Provisions as an Inadequate Response to the Over Incarceration of Aboriginal peoples in Nova Scotia
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Brady Tanner Reid
Description
Reviews ten sentencing decisions to better understand how s. 718.2(e) of the Criminal Code and R. vs. Gladue 1999 are interpreted by sentencing judges.
Criminology Honours Thesis (B.A.)--Saint Mary's University, 2017.
Paddling Together: Co-Governance Models for Regional Cumulative Effects Management
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jessica Clogg
Gavin Smith
Deborah Carlson
Hannah Askew
Description
Includes case studies of co-management models from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Florida.
Plain Talk 14: First Nations Accountability
Alternate Title
It's Our Time First Nations Tool Kit
Plain Talk ; 14
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Assembly of First Nations]
Description
Looks at Bill C-27, The Financial Accountability and Transparency of First Nations Bill.
Plain Talk 4: Treaties
Alternate Title
It's Our Time: First Nations Tool Kit
Plain Talk ; 4
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Assembly of First Nations]
Description
Presents the history of treaties between the Crown and First Nations of Canada.
Political Responses
Alternate Title
[Daniels: In and Beyond the Law]
[Métisland: Métis Settlements and the Daniels Decision]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Will Goodon
Gerald Cunningham
Description
President of the Métis Settlements General Council discusses its involvement in the Daniels case and actions of the Council since the decision. Second speaker discusses the political and historical context of the case, analyzes the court's judgement, and suggests possible future actions.
Duration: 1:15:01.
Presentations are part of the conference "Daniels: In and Beyond the Law" held at University of Alberta, Jan. 26-27, 2017.
A President in Indian Country: Calvin Coolidge and Lakota Diplomacy in the Summer of 1927
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Eric Steven Zimmer
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 3, Summer, 2017, pp. 215-234
Description
Looks at how Henry Standing Bear and Chauncey Yellow Robe capitalized on the historical presidential visit to the Pine Ridge reservation.
A Primer on the Constitutional Duty to Consult
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
OKT Law
Description
Explains the Duty to Consult and Accommodate, Section 35 of the Constitution Act of 1982 to protect Aboriginal and treaty rights.
The Pursuit of Inuit Sovereignty in Greenland
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Rauna Kuokkanen
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 5, no. 2, Innovations in Community Health and Wellness, July 2017, pp. 46-49
Description
Looks at the Greenland Self-Government Act which is an extension of the Home Rule Act
Questions about Questions: Law and Film Reflections on the Duty to Learn
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rebecca Johnson
Northern Review, no. 50, Law in the Canadian North, April 07, 2020, pp. 83-108
Description
Authors considers different ways that Canadian lawyers and Canadian law can engage with Indigenous law in the interest of working towards reconciliation. Discusses a process of self-questioning and self-reflection tied to film and cultural studies.
Racial Extractivism: Neoliberal White Settler Colonialism and Tar Sands Extraction
Theses
Author/Creator
Jennifer Preston
Description
Social and Political Thought Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2017.
Racially "Indian", Legally "White": The Canadian State's Struggles to Categorize the Métis, 1850-1900
Theses
Author/Creator
Jennifer Hayter
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2017.
Recommendations for Decolonizing British Columbia’s Heritage-Related Processes and Legislation
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
David M. Schaepe
George Nicholas
Kierstin Dolata
Description
Study consisted of reviewing province's Heritage Branch policies, programs, guidelines and laws, research on the handling of Indigenous cultural heritage in other juristictions and development of a set of recommendations.
Recommendations on First Nations Access to Indian Moneys
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
National Aboriginal Economic Development Board
Description
Discusses current legislative regime governing access to moneys derived from reserve lands which are held in trust in the Consolidated Revenue Fund and mechanisms available through optional legislation, and makes recommendations which would enable Bands to receive funds directly and in a timely manner.
Reconciliation is an English Word
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jason Mercredi
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 5, no. 2, Innovations in Community Health and Wellness, July 2017, pp. 58-61
Description
Comments on the proposed >Indigenous Languages Act
Remembering Why We Sit at the Table
Theses
Author/Creator
Faith Decontie
Description
Sociology and Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2017.
Discusses the Cree Nation of Chisasibi's Land Based Healing Program.
Responding to Human Trafficking: Dispossession, Colonial Violence, and Resistance among Indigenous and Racialized Women
E-Books
Author/Creator
Julie Kaye
Response to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry: Calls for Justice
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Bar Association
Description
Comments on specific components of the Calls for Justice for governments and Calls for Justice for industries, institutions, services and partnerships from a legal standpoint.
Review of Accountability and Mutual Accountability Frameworks: Final Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Institute on Governance
Description
Focuses on funding agreements used in different levels of government including: land claims/modern treaties, territorial formula financing, international agreements and treaties, block funding, transfer payments, municipal transfer payments, and institutional authorities.
Rivers of Sand: Creek Indian Emigration, Relocation, and Ethnic Cleansing in the American South
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Melanie Vasselin
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 4, no. 2, 2017, pp. 95-96
Description
Book review of: Rivers of Sand by Christopher D. Haveman.
Russian Laws on Indigenous Issues: Guarantees, Communities, Territories of Transitional Land Use: Translated and Commented
E-Books
Author/Creator
Maksim Zadorin
Olga Klisheva
Ksenia Vezhlivtseva
Daria Antufieva
Say We Are Nations: Documents of Politics and Protest in Indigenous America Since 1887
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Rose Soza War Soldier
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 3, Summer, 2017, pp. 294-297
Description
Book review of Say We Are Nations by Daniel M. Cobb
Settler Biopower: Accumulation and Dispossession in Canada's Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lara Fullenwieder
Settler Colonial Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, 2017, pp. 1-20
Description
Explains why settler colonialism is a structure not an event.
Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing: Documentary Governance of Indigenous Life in Canada and Its Disruption
Theses
Author/Creator
Danielle Taschereau Mamers
Description
Media Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Ontario, 2017.
Statut des Premières Nations au Canada = First Nations Status in Canada [Map, 2017]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Geomatics Services
[Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC)]
Description
Shows locations and whether community is under the Indian Act, Land Management Act or is self-governing.
Study Committee on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: Final Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Study Committee on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Description
Includes transcript of House Bill 2570, background and committee activity, minutes and reference materials, and various submissions discussing the issue.
The System Is "Broken": Concrete Actions Are Needed to End Systemic Discrimination: A Joint Brief Presented by The Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador (AFNQL) and The First Nations of Quebec and Labrador Health and Social Services Commission (FNQLHSSC)
E-Books
Author/Creator
Leila Ben Messaoud
Michel Deschênes
The System Is 'Broken": Concrete Actions Are Needed to End Systemic Discrimination: Joint Brief
Alternate Title
Leila Ben Messaoud
Michel Deschênes
E-Books
Author/Creator
Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador (AFNQ)
First Nations of Quebec and Labrador Health and Social Services Commission (FNQLSSC)
Richard Gray
Marjolaine Siouï
Derek Montour ... [et al.]
Description
Joint submission to the Special Commission on the Rights of the Child and Youth Protection discusses Quebec's Youth Protection Act.
Teaching American Indian History with Primary Sources
E-Books
Author/Creator
Dan Eshet
Teaching Proper Drinking?: Clubs and Pubs in Indigenous Australia
Alternate Title
Research Monograph (Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research) ; no.39
E-Books
Author/Creator
Maggie Brady
Research Monograph (Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research)
"There's a River to Consider": Heid E. Erdrich's "Pre-Occupied"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susan Bernardin
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 1, Digital Indigenous Studies: Gender, Genre, and New Media, Spring, 2017, pp. 38-55
Description
Discusses a poem written for a blog and a short film.
To' Kee Skuy' Soo Ney-Wo-Chek' = I Will See You Again in a Good Way: A Year 1 Project Report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People of Northern California
Alternate Title
To' Kee Skuy' Soo Ney-Wo-Chek' = I Will See You Again in a Good Way Progress Report
To' Kee Skuy' Soo Ney-Wo-Chek' = I Will See You Again in a Good Way: Year 2 Progress Report
Year 2 Progress Report: Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls & Two Spirit People of Northern California
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Abby Abinanti
Angi Cavaliere
Alanna Nulph
Blythe K. George
Annita Lucchesi … [et al.]]
Description
Related material: Year 2 Progress Report.
The Top Ten Uncertainties of Aboriginal Title after Tsilhqot’in
E-Books
Author/Creator
Dwight Newman
Tourism in Gwaii Haanas: Contributions to Haida Gwaii Communities and Co-management
Theses
Author/Creator
Rachel Elliott
Description
Resource and Environmental Management Thesis (MREM)--Simon Fraser University, 2017.
Towards Improving Traditional Food Access for Urban Indigenous People
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Robyn Ermine
Rachel Engler-Stringer
Patricia Farnese
Glenda Abbott
Description
Looks at legal context of regulating access to hunting, fishing and trapping and barriers to acquiring country foods and makes recommendations for improving traditional food practices at the community, provincial or regional, and federal levels.
Treaties and Agreements
Web Sites » Governmental
Author/Creator
Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada
Description
Information on historical and modern treaties in Canada, treaty rights and the treaty relationship.
Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti and Māori Ethics Guidelines for: AI, Algorithms, Data and IOT
Alternate Title
Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti and Maori Ethics Guidelines for: AI, Algorithms, Data and IOT
E-Books
Author/Creator
Karaitiana Taiuru
Trump's Withdrawal From the Paris Agreement: Another Affront to the Planet, Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights
Articles » General
Author/Creator
International Indian Treaty Council
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 28, no. 1, Summer, 2017, p. [?]
Description
Discusses the importance of The Paris Agreement to Indigenous peoples and how it is a step closer to the recognition of their rights in international law.
Understanding the Indian Act
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Frances Abele
Roger Jones
Douglas Sanderson
Description
Speakers discuss how the Act has defined the government's and Crown's relationship with First Nations peoples; how it has impeded development of communities; and how fundamental changes are needed to give First Nations' control over governance and the ability to develop mechanisms to improve access to capital.
Duration: 1:09:15.
UNDRIP Implementation: Comparative Approaches, Indigenous Voices from CANZUS: Special Report
Alternate Title
United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Comparative Approaches, Indigenous Voices from CANZUS
E-Books
Author/Creator
Andrew Erueti
Fleur Te Aho
Claire Charters
Brenda L. Gunn
Kirsty Gover ... [et al.]
Using the Legal System to Advance Equality for Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA People
E-Books
Author/Creator
Alana Robert
Violence Against Indigenous Women in the United States, Particularly Alaska Native Women, in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Alaska Native Women’s Resource Center
the Indian Law Resource Center
National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center
Vulnerable: The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
E-Books
Author/Creator
Katherine Fierlbeck
Lorian Hardcastle
Aimée Craft
Deborah McGregor
Jeffery Hewitt … [et al.]
Description
See: Chapter A-2 "COVID-19 and First Nations' Responses" by Aimée Craft, Deborah McGregor, and Jeffery Hewit.
Chapter D-6 "Systemic Discrimination in Government Services and Programs and Its Impact on First Nations Peoples During the COVID-19 Pandemic" by Anne Levesque and Sophie Theriault.