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.
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 2, Spring, 2015, pp. 203-213
Description
Book review essay:
Native America and the Question of Genocide by Alex Alvarez.
Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian: The Crime That Should Haunt America by Gary Clayton Anderson.
American Carnage: Wounded Knee, 1890 by Jerome Greene.
Navajo common law seeks justice by offering healing.
Note: This is a sample article from the publication. Subscriptions are available from the Native Law Centre.
Canadian Journal of History, vol. 50, no. 3, Since Skyscapers: New Histories of Native-Newcomer Relations ..., Winter, 2015, pp. 492-523
Description
Commission looked into the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's killing of sled dogs during the 1950s and 1960s. Focuses on how the inquiry combined written research with oral testimony to produce its final report.
Compares and contrasts some fundamental distinctions between customary law and common law.
Note: This is a sample article from the publication. Subscriptions are available from the Native Law Centre.
Honoring Indigenous Treaty Rights for Climate Justice
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
C. S. Mantyka-Pringle
C. N. Westman
A. P. Kythreotis
D. W. Schindler
Nature Climate Change, vol. 5, no. 9, September 2015, pp. 798-801
Description
Uses the Alberta oil sands and Treaty Eight as an example of how adhering to the treaty terms could result in environmental and social benefits for all Canadians and make the country a leader in sustainability and climate governance.
Honoring the Strength of Our Sisters: Increasing Access to Human Rights Justice For Indigenous Women and Girls
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Human Rights Commission
Description
Overview of what the Canadian Human Rights Commission heard at a series of roundtables attended by individuals and representatives from Indigenous women's organizations and service organizations. Twenty-one barriers were identified as well ideas for overcoming them.
Horse Stealing and the Borderline: The North West Mounted Police and the Control of Indian Movement, 1874-1900
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brian Hubner
Prairie Forum, vol. 20, no. 2, Fall, 1995, pp. 281-300
Description
Discusses how the North West Mounted Police (NWMP) confined and isolated First Nations peoples to reserves in an attempt to suppress their independence and culture.
Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 2, Summer, 1995, pp. 168-183
Description
Looks at relationships between Aboriginal people and Euro-Americans on the northern coast of Washington Olympic Peninsula and the trial of Mary Phillips, Xwelas, for killing her husband George Phillips.
Impact and Benefit Agreement Community Toolkit: Negotiation and Implementation of Impact and Benefit Agreements
E-Books
Author/Creator
Ginger Gibson
Ciaran O'Faricheallaigh
Description
Meant for communities considering entering into a contract with a Canadian mining company, but many of the issues and processes are also relevant to other industry sectors and contexts.
Contains information on: project analysis; preparing for negotiations and establishing negotiating position; conducting negotiations; reaching and implementing agreements; and maintaining relationships.
"Summer 2015 edition."
Webinar provides an overview of agreements between mineral resource developers and Aboriginal communities with limited government interference. Also leads a discussion with participants about Aboriginal community signatories’ expectations, community consent, and the possibility of standardizing IBA negotiations.
Duration: 1:01:00.
Canadian Bar Review, vol. 74, no. 2, June 1995, pp. 187-224
Description
Discusses inclusions in a Self-Government Agreement referring to the Yukon First Nation Self-Government Agreement, personal and territorial jurisdictions, concurrent and exclusive powers and connections between Aboriginal, federal and provincial laws..
Looks at institutional arrangements created by the Agreement and how they affect harvesting rights, management of wildlife and habitat, wildlife research, and assessment of environmental impacts of development. Gives special attention to wildlife co-management mechanisms which represent interests of both government and the Inuvialuit.
Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law, vol. 2, no. 1, April 1995
Description
Looks at the Aboriginal Communities Act and the extent to which it meets the requirements of self-government contained in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Looks at the question of belonging, identity and gender equality and failure to address this in Bill C-3. Uses author's family story to show lack of Indian status or band membership in community.
Overview of 1994-1995 activities of the Indian Specific Claims Commission (ICC), an independent body of inquiry whose mandate includes review of rejected federal claims. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Includes reports for Athabasca Denesuline Inquiry, the Fond du Lac claim, Black Lake and Hatchet Lake First Nations; Lax Kw'alaams Indian Band Inquiry and claim, Young Chipeewayan Inquiry, claim regarding Stoney Knoll Indian Reserve No. 107, Micmacs of Gesgapegiag Inquiry, claim to Horse Island, Chippewas of the Thames Inquiry, Muney Land Claim.
Reports include the Athabasca Denesuline Inquiry, Lax Kw'alaams Indian Band Inquiry, Young Chipeewayan Inquiry, Micmacs of Gesgapegiag Inquiry, Chippewas of the Thames Inquiry and responses from the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
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.
Documents relating to the “Indian Question”, residential schools, The Bryce Report (health conditions in the schools), the McKenna McBride Commission, further restrictions imposed by the Indian Act, post-war activism, etc.
Backgrounders and primary sources for topics covered in Book One.
Four components: purpose of schools, assaults and their legacy, resistance and change, and action of reconciliation.
Unit developed in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's call for development of age-appropriate educational materials.
Panel asked to answer three questions regarding Cape Breton University: why is it important to indigenize? what are the top 3-5 priorities to indigenizing? and what are the barriers to indigenizing?
Duration:1:00:17.
Archaeology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Simon Fraser University, 2015.
Includes four cases studies: Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Royal British Columbia Museum, and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
"... introductory discussion about Indigenous law including different interpretations about what the term means, and why it is important to understand legal pluralism and to learn about Indigenous laws."
Duration: 6:42.
"Topics discussed include why gender and sexuality matter to Indigenous law, and what Indigenous feminisms bring to the conversation".
Duration: 10:23.
Nationhood Interrupted: Revitalizing nehiyaw Legal Systems
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Sylvia McAdam
Justice as Healing, vol. 20, no. 1, 2015, pp. 1-8
Description
Comments on problematic and questionable bills as well as the Idle No More movement.
Excerpts from Nationhood Interrupted: Revitalizing nêhiyaw Legal Systems by Sylvia McAdam.
Group discussion focuses on challenges regarding revitalization, difficult questions, and what is exciting about the revitalization of Indigenous laws.
Duration: 9:44.