Findings from national research project to get a better understanding of how Indigenous societies use of their own legal traditions and identify legal principles.
Studies in Political Economy, vol. 93, Landscapes of Neoliberalism, Spring, 2014, pp. 25-52
Description
Presents criticism of IBA's by considering the privatization of federal duty to consult, the trend to have market-based solutions for social suffering, and the limiting of political and legal channels.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 3, Summer, 2014, pp. 287-318
Description
Looks at the current violence caused by drug and human trafficking, challenges to addressing the problem, and review of initiatives to fix the challenges.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 3, Summer, 2014, pp. 287-318
Description
Looks at two American Indian Nations, that are recognized as drug conduits, and discusses possible solutions to the challenges faced by these and other Nations.
Saskatchewan Indian, Special Edition, April/May 1984, pp. 22-27
Description
Report prepared by law firm for the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations providing insight on questions asked at the Special Committee of the House of Commons on Indian Self- Government.
Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, vol. 27, no. 1, January 2014, pp. 213-223
Description
Looks at different evaluations of the idea of reconciliation that mask assimilation or governmental efforts to look good and why the real concept should not be abandoned.
Film about the Québec Provincial Police (QPP) raid on the Restigouche Reserve in June 1981 due to disputes over the salmon-fishing rights of the Micmac people. This film deal with mature subject matter. Viewer discretion is advised.
Duration: 45:57.
Contains links to full-text articles written by scholars and published by universities. Currently over 500 articles by 408 authors, with new material being added on an on-going basis.
[ISID Conference 2014: Whose Truth? What Kind of Reconciliation?]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Murray Sinclair
Description
Presentation by the Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada on the history of residential schools, treaty promises, abuse in the schools and more.
Duration: 44:59.
LawNow, vol. 38, no. 6, Bench Marks: Cases that Change the Legal Landscape, July/Aug. 2014, p. [?]
Description
Presents timeline beginning at 1755 leading up to the inception of the residential school system and ending at 2014 with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings wrap up.
Report on the activities of the independent, quasi-judicial tribunal which administers the Independent Assessment Process for claims related to acts committed at the schools which resulted in physical and/or psychological injury.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 34, no. 1, 2014, pp. 73-85
Description
Uses the example of applying for travel funding through Health Canada's Non-Insured Health Benefits program to illustrate how the Indian Act controls actions and produces artificial categories of identity.
Activist argues that rather than rely on Canadian law, the principles of Indigenous law, with their emphasis of reciprocal relationships, should be used to support sex workers' safety and agency.
Duration: 34:12.
Indigenous Health Governance and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
The Internationalization of Indigenous Rights: UNDRIP in the Canadian Context: Special Report
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Bonita Beatty
Description
Argues that while implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples cannot be guaranteed, it can be used as a tool to influence governments, policy makers, and health providers. Chapter from The Internationalization of Indigenous Rights: UNDRIP in the Canadian Context.
Entire book on one pdf. To access paper scroll to p. 49.
Contextualizes the recovery of legal traditions by looking at past, present and future debates about Indigenous laws, and looks at one example of a legal concept, the wetiko or windigo which describes people who are harmful or destructive to others.
Chapter in book: The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law edited by Markus D. Dubber and Tatjana Hornle.
The Gathering: The Newsletter of the Church of the Redeemer, Easter-Pentecost , 2014, pp. 14-18
Description
Presentation from International Women's Day, March 8, 2014. Discusses recommendations from the report Invisible Women: A Call to Action. A Report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Canada.
A typed copy of Inspector Francis Dickens's North West Mounted Police journal from Fort Pitt in 1885. Recounts the events of the Resistance, the skirmish and subsequent abandonment of Fort Pitt by Dickens who was in command of the installation when hostilities broke out.
Group photo taken on the grounds of Fort Pitt, NWT. Numbered from L to R: 1. Fire Sky Thunder; 2. Sky Bird (Big Bear's son); 3. Natoose; 4. Napasis; 5. Big Bear; 6. Angus McKay (HBC); 7. Dufrain (HBC cook); 8. L. Goulet; 9. Stanley Simpson (HBC); 10. Alex McDonald; 11. Rowley; 12. Corp. Sleigh (NWMP); 13. Edmond; 14. Henry Dufrain.
The Internationalisation of Indigenous Rights: UNDRIP in the Canadian Context: Special Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Terry Mitchell
Ken Coates
Cairin Holroyd
Yvonne Boyer
Thierry Rodon ... Bonita Beatty ... [et al.]
Description
Members of the Internationalization of Indigenous Rights
Research Group report on various aspects of Canada's failure to fully implement the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
[Northern Territory Bar Association 2014 Dili Timor Leste Conference Papers]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Judith Kelly
Description
Paper given at the NTBA Dili Conference, July 10- 12, 2014 in association with the School of Law, [Charles Darwin University: 'Common Issues: Common Solutions'.]