Barriers to Access to Health and Social Services for English-speaking First Nations Communities in Quebec
Betsiamites Band Council, Route 138 and the Betsiamites Reserve, Public Edition, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Consists of bilingual annotated index, historical documents, maps, correspondence/letters, Band Council documents and final reports relating to the Band's claims alleging that reserve lands taken for highway use were never surrendered to Canada and/or transferred to the Province of Quebec. Commissioners include: Sheila G. Purdy and Alan C. Holman. [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.]
Book Review Gambling with the Future: The Evolution of Aboriginal Gaming in Canada
Caretakers of the Land and Its People: Why Indigenous Trapline Holders' Legal Rights and Responsibilities Matter for Everyone
Carrying the Burden of Peace: The Mohawks, the Canadian Forces, and the Oka Crisis
Chief Asks Church's Support For Treaties
Common Table Report: Based upon Discussions among Canada, British Columbia and the First Nations Participating at the Common Table
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.
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Debewewin Jury Review Implementation Committee: Final Report
“Do Not Take Them from Myself and My Children for Ever”: Aboriginal Water Rights in Treaty 7 Territories and the Duty to Consult
Do Tripartite Approaches to Reform of Services for First Nations Make a Difference: A Study of Three Sectors
Duty to Consult Process Will Ensure Input From Aboriginal Communities
Editorial: It Takes All of Us to Enforce the Law
Finding Solutions for the Legislative Gaps in Determining Rights to the Family Home on Colonially Defined Indigenous Lands
First Nations Governance Project: Phase I
First Nations Youth Inquest: 2018 Progress Update on the Recommendations
First Nations Youth Inquest: 2018 Report Card on Recommendations [Detailed]
First Peoples Law: Essays on Canadian Law and Decolonization
Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) in the Yukon: Established Practice or Untraveled Path?
Government of British Columbia Submission to the
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Incomplete, Illiberal and Expensive: A Review of 15 Years of Treaty Negotiations in British Columbia and Proposals for Reform
Introductory Timeline of Settler Colonialism in Saskatchewan
'KI Six' Jailed in Fght for Land Rights
Last Resort
Living Together - Acting Together: Government Brief Submitted to the Public Inquiry Commission on Relations between Indigenous Peoples and Certain Public Services in Québec
Justice
"More Precious Than Gold": Indigenous Water Governance in the Context of Modern Land Claims in Yukon
Muskoday Signs TLE Agreement
Oka: A Convergence of Cultures and the Canadian Forces
On Wascana’s Banks: Progress, Harmony, and Diversity on Throne Speeches of the North-West Territories and Saskatchewan, 1877-2007
Permanency for Children & Youth in Care [British Columbia]: Case Data and Trends [as of May 31, 2018]
Pipeline Protest Produces Agreement
(Re)Making Indigenous Water Worlds: Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, and Hydrosocial Relations in the Settler Nation State
Reconsidering Confederation: Canada's Founding Debates, 1864 - 1999
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Chapter Two: Compact, Contract, Covenant: The Evolution of First Nations Treaty-Making by J.R. Miller.
Chapter Six: Resisting Canada’s Will: Manitoba’s Entry into Confederation by Robert Wardhaugh and Barry Ferguson.
Chapter Eleven: “A More Accurate Face on Canada to the World”: The Creation of Nunavut by P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Andr&ecaute Légaré.
Refracting the State through Human-Fish Relations: Fishing, Indigenous Legal Orders and Colonialism in North/Western Canada
Residential Services to Children in Need of Protection [British Columbia]: Case Data and Trends: 2017/18
Responses of Canada to the List of Issues and Questions with Regard to the Consideration of Canada's Sixth and Seventh Reports on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
The Road to Aboriginal Authority Over Child and Family Services: Considerations For An Effective Transition
Saskatchewan Treaty and Aboriginal Rights for Hunting and Fishing Guide
Shame to Jail Band Members for Defending Rights
[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.