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20 Years Later: RCAP's Legacy in Indigenous Health System's Governance - What About the Next Twenty?
2014-2015 Annual Report on the State of Inuit Culture and Society: Inuit Social and Cultural Self-Determination
Aboriginal Benchbook for Western Australia Courts
Aboriginal Consultation and Accommodation: Interim Guidelines for Federal Officials to Fulfill the Legal Duty to Consult
Aboriginal Courts in Canada
Research paper looks at federal and provincial legislation, inherent Aboriginal rights and negotiated agreements, and different Aboriginal courts in Canada.
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Aboriginal Law 101
Aboriginal Rights Claims and the Making and Remaking of History
Aboriginal Rights: in a Neoliberal World
Aboriginal Title and Rights: Foundational Principles and Recent Developments
Aboriginal Title in British Columbia: Tsilhqot'in Nation v. British Columbia
Aboriginality, Existing Aboriginal Rights and State Accommodation in Canada
Aborigines & Activism: Race, Aborigines & the Coming of the Sixties to Australia
Access to Forest Lands and Resources: The Case of Aboriginal Peoples in Alberta
The Ahousaht v. Canada (Attorney General), 2008 BCSC 769: Ruling on Admissibility of Oral History Given by Victoria Christine Wells, a Plaintiff Witness
Alexis First Nation, TransAlta Utilities - Right of Way, Public Edition
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains statements of claim, correspondence/letters, maps and transcripts in regards to Calgary Power's (now TransAlta) access to electrical transmission right of way granted in the 1950s and 1960s. The Commissioners include: Roger J. Augustine, Daniel J. Bellegarde, Sheila G. Purdy.
The American Indian Movement’s Strategic Choices: Environmental Limitations and Organizational Outcomes
American Indian Treaties: A Guide to Ratified and Unratified Colonial, United States, State, Foreign, and International Treaties and Agreements, 1607-1911
Angry Inuk
Arctic Ocean Oil Rights: International Law and Sovereign Title
Asian Indigenousnes: The Case of India
Asian Indigenousness: The Case of India
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.
Being Indigenous in Today's World
The Benefits of Being Indian: Blood Quanta, Intermarriage, and Allotment Policy on the White Earth Reservation, 1889–1920
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.]
Beyond the New Dawes Act: A Critique of the First Nations Property Ownership Act
Bigstone Cree First Nation, TLE Claim Inquiry, Public Edition, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains interviews, presentations, statements, reports, correspondence/letters and documents regarding the Treaty Land Entitlement process for the Alberta First Nation. Commissioners include: Daniel J. Bellegarde, P.E. James Prentice, and Carole T. Corcoran.
Bill C-292, An Act to Implement the Kelowna Accord: Prepared for the Senate Standing Committee on Aboriginal Peoples, April 16, 2008
Blockades or Breakthroughs? Aboriginal Peoples Confront the Canadian State
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.
The Bridge-Building Role of Political Procedures: Indigenous Rights and Citizenship Rights Within and Across the Borders of the Nation-State
Canada's Due Diligence Obligation to Prevent, Protect, Punish and Remedy Violence Against Aboriginal Women
Canupawakpa Dakota First Nation Turtle Mountain Surrender Claim - Public Edition, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contains historical documents, memos, reports, correspondence/letters, maps and submissions regarding validity of the 1909 surrender claim. Commissioners include: Roger J. Austine, Daniel J. Bellegarde, and Sheila G. Purdy. [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.]
CAP - On Canada's Indian Act
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.]
Carrying the Burden of Peace: The Mohawks, the Canadian Forces, and the Oka Crisis
A Cause for Nervousness: The Proposed Máori Land Reforms in New Zealand
The Changing Legal Landscape for Aboriginal Land Use Planning in Canada
Child Advocacy in Saskatchewan Child Welfare Cases: Access to Justice and Indigenous Children's Rights
Children's Interests Trump Jurisdictional Disputes
Chippewas of Kettle & Stoney Point First Nation Inquiry, 1927 Surrender Claim, Public Edition, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contains historical documents, transcripts, correspondence/letters, reports, exhibits, minutes, and submissions regarding the surrender of some of the reserve lands in 1927, 100 years after the treaty was signed. Commissioners include: Roger J. Augstine and Daniel J. Bellegarde.
Chippewas of the Thames First Nation, Clench Defalcation Claim, Public Edition, July 2008
Chippewas Tri-Council Coldwater-Narrows Reservation, July 2008
Claiming Indigenous Land Rights from the Bottom Up: Dispossession of the Ogiek in Mau Forest, Kenya
Climate Change From An Indigenous Perspective: Key Issues and Challenges
Commission is Best Forum for Finding Truth About Schools
Common Table Report: Based upon Discussions among Canada, British Columbia and the First Nations Participating at the Common Table
The Community Conundrum: Metis Critical Perspectives
on the Application of R v Powley in British Columbia
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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