Summarizes key decisions relevant to industry and project proponents and discusses how they effect carrying out the duty to consult with Indigenous peoples.
Looks at the critical analysis and legal context pertaining to Aboriginal rights over lands and resources; and implications of these findings for the forest tenure system and for cooperative management arrangements in Alberta.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 32, no. 2, Fall, 2017, pp. 106-114
Description
Ortiz’s address to the AISA calls on Indigenous people to recognize the damage done to them by colonization and to find in that recognition the strength and will to participate in contemporary resistance to neocolonial projects rooted in consumer capitalist and extractive resource regimes.
Legislative Summary (Parliamentary Information and Research Service) ; LS-611E
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Marlisa Tiedemann
Description
Amendment in response to Indian Oil and Gas Canada Co-Management Board's request to modernize the Act in order to eliminate existing regulatory gap and level the playing field between off-reserve and on-reserve activities, thereby reducing barriers to economic development.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1-2, Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples, 2008, pp. 44-51
Description
Discusses the need for Arctic communities to prepare for changes caused by loss of sea ice, increases in coastal erosion, migration of animals important to livelihoods and extreme climate events.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 51, no. 1, Destabilizing Canada / Le Canada déstabilisé, Winter, 2017, pp. 153-185
Description
General discussion of consultation and consent, and analysis of recent legal cases which illustrate how Indigenous peoples in Alberta have been excluded from decision-making involving the oil industry.
Includes sections on historiography and colonialism in the context of Africa, South and East Asia, the Pacific, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Central Steppes, and North America.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 11, no. 6, June 2008, p. 3
Description
Comments on the provincial government, First Nations, and Métis leaders meeting to discuss the duty to consult process with respect to developing on traditional Aboriginal land.
Article located by scrolling to page 3.
Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 6, no. 1, Fall, 2008, pp. 27-29
Description
Brief description of articles dealing with formulation of federal forestry policy, First Nations-operated call centres, and Impact and Benefit Agreements (IBA).
Discusses proposed changes to the law covering oil and gas activity on First Nations reserves which will enable more bands to get involved in the petroleum industry.
Argues that the legal framework has not kept up with demographic shifts because it focuses on land-related rights and ignores off-reserve and non-status population. As such, it disproportionately affects women who have been displaced through discriminatory effects of the Indian Act.
Website provides learning materials about the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia before the province was created. Contains links to complete collection of correspondence from 1846 to 1871. One section of teacher material deals with question "Were the Douglas Treaties and the Numbered Treaties Fairly Negotiated?"
Examines how the Pebble partnership and government regulatory regimes are addressing the environmental health and justice concerns that include potential impacts of mining operations on air and water quality, water supply, aquatic life and the welfare of the Indigenous people.
Research Paper (National Centre for First Nations Governance)
Research Paper for the National Centre for First Nations Governance
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Robert B. Anderson
Bettina Schneider
Bob Kayseas
Description
Examines Roque Roldán Ortiga’s six criteria for judging the quality of a particular land and resources rights regime with regards to Indigenous governments; and looks at how those criteria can be used to measure the degree to which Aboriginal peoples in Canada have been successful with their struggle to have of their land, resource and other rights recognized.
Argues that the federal/provincial/First Nation agreement should be honoured. Also comments on the Kitchenuhmayboosib Inninuwug First Nation's refusal to comply with a court order to give a mining company permission to drill on traditional land.
Outlines a scientific history of uranium, and looks at the traditional Navajo’s belief system regarding uranium and milling as a disruption in the balance of earth and sky.
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Ethnohistory, vol. 55, no. 1, Winter, 2008, pp. 87-118
Description
Analyzes Indian Agents' responses in 1897 about administrative decisions and confrontations about fishing places, gear, licences and "closed-season" fishing by First Nations; argues Agents conserved fish for settlers and assimilated First Nation fishers into state management practices and extending so-called privileges.
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (Canada)
State Committee on Northern Affairs of the Russian Federation
Description
Agreement between Canada and Russia that acknowledges common interests and issues that pertain to the Arctic and northern regions of both countries, including sustainable development and environmental protection.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1-2, Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples, 2008, pp. 52-59
Description
Examines direct consequences of climate change on Indigenous people and the links between traditional knowledge and practices to natural resources and biological diversity.
Discussion paper outlines five critical policy issues including: mineral tenure system and security of investment; Aboriginal rights and interests related to mining development; regulatory processes for exploration activities on Crown Land; land use planning in Ontario’s Far North; and private rights and interests relating to mining development.
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.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 11, no. 10, October 2008, p. 1,3
Description
Comments on a tentative deal between Enbridge Pipeline officials, the Saskatchewan government and First Nations people that promises training and employment for First Nations people.
Article found on page 1 and by scrolling to page 3.
Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 6, no. 1, Fall, 2008, pp. 61-77
Description
Looks at literature on program evaluation, others' efforts to assess outcomes, and conduct of research in intercultural contexts. Examples used are Ekati, Diavik, and Snap Lake Diamond mines.
Commentary on the issue of natural resource revenue sharing argues that long-term budget plans are needed to accommodate proper allocation of revenues.
Aboriginal Peoples' Legal Right to Natural Resources (Forests) in British Columbia
Update Paper (Scow Institute)
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Author/Creator
Cheryl Sharvit
Description
Update to Aboriginal Peoples' Legal Right to Natural Resources (Forests) in British Columbia reflecting significant developments in Aboriginal rights and title case law, four decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada, and the amended Forest Act of British Columbia.