International Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 51, September 2015, pp. 27-56
Description
Argues there isn't a clear idea of what truth and reconciliation should mean to the residential school survivors and Aboriginal people in general. Includes articles from the Aboriginal Healing Foundation report From Truth to Reconciliation: Transforming the Legacy of Residential Schools.
Looks at the intellectual, structural and political attributes of the British Columbia Treaty Commission (BCTC) process in order to see why it failed. Provides recommendations for future collaboration between governments and Indigenous Nations.
Paper from Indigenous Peoples in the International Sphere.
Discussion of international legal principle created and justified by ideas of European superiority; doctrine provided newly arrived Europeans with automatic property rights and entitled them to exercise governmental, political, and commercial power over the original inhabitants.
Panel discussion at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's closing events.
Duration: 1:03:21.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 2, Militarization, 2001, pp. 4-7
Description
Comments on the repressive tactics employed by national governments in the name of "National Unity" in order to control indigenous lands and people.
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St. Thomas Law Review, vol. 14, 2001 - 2002, pp. 425-447
Description
Examines the right of self determination in the United Nations Declaration and outlines two types of constitutive processes that should sharply reduce the human rights violations experienced by indigenous peoples.
Saskatchewan First nations and the Province s's Resource Future
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Perry Bellegarde
Description
National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations discusses Saskatchewan's current resource-based boom, necessity for collaboration, and impact and benefit agreements with governments and companies.
Duration: 2:00:34.
Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Studia Territorialia, vol. 15, no. 3-4, 2015, pp. 45-66
Description
Looks at the different ways the Conservative Government and First Nations' plan to reform the Indian Act and the possible effects on the status of First Nations.
Harvard International Review, vol. 36, no. 3, Spring, 2015, pp. [64-67]
Description
Looks at ineffective layers of arctic governance which includes local governments, central governments, indigenous councils and the international Arctic Council.
Northern Review, no. 39, Consultation and Resource Development in Northern Communities: Russia, Scandinavia & Canada, 2015, pp. 31-38
Description
Looks at different forms of autonomy, constitutional and legal understanding of autonomy, reasons for protecting territorial interests and choosing an approach to protect those interests.
Some of issues discussed are women's rights and circumstances, resource extraction, lack of legal-political structures for self-determination and Sweden's Race Biology and eugenics programs.
Details the proceedings of a two-day workshop held in Australia that brought together scholars and policy practitioners from Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Canada and the United States in July of 2015. The workshop examined the implications of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) for collection, maintenance, and use of data related to Indigenous peoples and the potential effects for Indigenous sovereignties.
Panelists discuss whether engaging with Canadian political process and voting undermines Indigenous sovereignty. Followed by question and answer period.
Duration: 1:14:28.
Discusses the negotiating problems between Aboriginal groups and mining companies and the need to develop a long-term vision about mineral development.
[The Tsilhqot’in Decision and Canada’s First Nations Termination Policies, pt. 2]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Arthur Manuel
Description
Brief discussion of Supreme Court of Canada's landmark decision in the case Tsilhqot'in v. British Columbia in which the Zeni Gwet'in Tsilhqot'in have Aboriginal Title to 200,000 hectares of traditional territory in northern B.C. and rights to land use.
Author focuses on The Constitution of the White Earth Nation as a piece of influential native writing that advocates for a contemporary treatment of Indigenous nationhood and sovereignty movements.