Overview of laws and policies that led to the removal of Aboriginal children from their homes and the need for the ICWA (Indian Child Welfare Act), requirements and implementation in New York.
Anglican Journal, vol. 130, no. 3, March 2004, p. 8
Description
Blackwell decision finds government 100 per cent liable for damages suffered at the Alberni Indian Residential School; application for appeal to Supreme Court of Canada to be made.
Looks at the movement that began in opposition to federal Canadian policies.
Senior Honors Thesis towards International Studies (B.A.)--University of Utah, 2014.
Between Keewatin and Tsilhqot'in: Reflections From the Centre of Turtle Island
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Bill Gallagher
Description
Presentation by the author of Resource Rulers: Fortune and Folly on Canada's Road to Resources, offers recommendations to First Nations people including promoting their 197 legal wins.
Duration: 31:50.
Purpose of the guide is to facilitate the timely processing of requests from local governments to the Province of British Columbia for statutory approvals of boundary changes, adoption of amendment of zoning bylaws, and more.
Presents Angela White from the Indian Residential School Survivors' Society speaking on the history and impacts of residential schools.
Duration: 25:58.
Part 1.
Part 3.
Examines colonization of Canada, historical trauma, the criminal justice system and community healing programs.
Duration: 37:21.
Related material: Discussion Guide.
Provides historical background about issues relating to the play about the murdered and missing women from the "Highway of Tears", a section of highway between Prince George and Prince Rupert, British Columbia.
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.
ĆELÁNEN: a Journal of Indigenous Governance, vol. 1, no. 1, 2004, p. [?]
Description
Discusses recommendations that should be made to address the conflict between the Chilean state and Mapuche Nation including establishing an exchange program between the Indigenous Institute in Temuco and the Indigenous Governance Program at the University of Victoria, B.C.
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.
Historical overview of the destructive policies of Hayter Reed, who spent much of his career in Indian Affairs was deputy superintendent of Indian Affairs in 1893-1897.
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.