Speaker uses example of Alberta inquiry which dealt with access to health care to illustrate how inquiries, if not structured properly, can produce unsatisfactory results.
Duration: 12:29.
Head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission speaks about questions that need to be answered when determining whether an inquiry would be effective and meaningful for those directly affected and Aboriginal people in general.
Duration: 35:38.
Topics included Indigenous men's role in violence, activism around the issue, and international reports and Canada's duty to respond. Followed by question and answer period.
Duration: 1:38:19.
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.
Discusses customary rights and responsibilities with respect to three areas: private advice-/knowledge, inherited ritual/ceremonial property (rituals, songs, stories, etc.) and House property (hereditary names, songs, stories).
International Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Administration, vol. 4, no. 1, 2003, pp. 87-99
Description
Looks at a gaming enterprise that has developed human resources tools and practices that could be adapted or applied in other hospitality organizations .
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.
Excerpt of the declaration issued at the 5th World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference which took place in Cancun, Mexico in September 2003.
To access this article scroll down to page 39.
The Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 3, no. 2, 2003, pp. 75-85
Description
Examines the bio-prospecting/bio-piracy debate in the context of traditional knowledge as an important component in an aboriginal economic development strategy.
(CLEBC) Aboriginal Administrative Law Conference ; paper 5.1
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lisa C. Fong
Description
Looks at issues surrounding integrating Aboriginal healing practices with the mainstream Canadian health care system, such as who controls licensing, what standards should apply to healing practices and definition of what constitutes a healing practice.
Paper from the Aboriginal Administrative Law Conference.
SAA Archaeological Record, vol. 15, no. 4, 2015, pp. 41-47
Description
Looks at a property development dispute on Grace Islet near Salt Spring Island, British Columbia between heritage holders, land owners, policy makers and First Nations.
Fourteenth Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Dawn Lavell Harvard
Description
Brief statement by President of the Native Women's Association of Canada addresses violence in general, murdered and missing women, and Canadian government's failure to respond to these issues.
Photograph. Caption: "Judge Hugh Richardson (right) shaking hands with Peter Hourie, the court interpreter for the Indian trials."
From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.
The Indian trials took place in Regina, North West Territories, after the trial of Louis Riel.
Talks about contrasts in world views and racism which perpetuate the problem of violence towards women starting from the historical point of contact.
Duration: 20:10.
Discusses Commission's annual report, reviews Alexis First Nation claim with federal Crown's grants of three rights of way and the acceptance of Coldwater Narrows land claim. Complete issue on one pdf.
Discusses Toronto Purchase land claim negotiation, settlement for Kahkewistahaw land surrender claim and the history of numbered treaties. Interview with Robert Reid reviews his years as mediator. Complete issue on one pdf.
The Northern Review, no. 41, Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic, 2015, pp. 207-240
Description
Looks at the role new communication technology played in two scenarios: the inquiry into the construction of a pipeline in the Mackenzie Valley and the Nunavut Impact Review Board hearings into the Mary River ore project.
Royal Commission on Renewing and Strengthening Our Place in Canada
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Maura Hanrahan
Description
Discusses the lasting negative effects of the decision to omit Mi'kmaq and Innu from the terms and the consequences of the Indian Act not being applied.
Indigenous Law Journal, vol. 2, no. 1, Fall, 2003, pp. 67-115
Description
Argues that since the theoretical underpinings of Canadian law are Western liberalism, there is a fundamental conflict with the viewpoint of Aboriginal people.