Reports on the progress of the Department established to attempt to resolve claims, address the results of the school system, and foster healing and reconciliation
Examines the principles and finances of the Indian Specific Claims Commission (ISCC) operations and presents the Departmental Performance Report. [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 submitted to Parliament for the Indian Specific Claims Commission (ISCC) and its mandate to conduct inquiries and provide mediation and facilitation services. Includes a list of all ISCC concluded inquiries and Canada's response. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Topics discussed were collecting and collections management, and repatriation and initiatives for reconciliation; includes case studies, witness reflections and link to the webinar Museum Perspectives on the Task Force on Museums & First Peoples and the Recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Examines how the Pebble partnership and government regulatory regimes are addressing the environmental health and justice concerns that include potential impacts of mining operations on air and water quality, water supply, aquatic life and the welfare of the Indigenous people.
Looks at the high rates of incarceration of Indigenous Australians and the economic and social costs of imprisonment, advocates for a holistic approach to reduce over-representation in the criminal justice system, and discusses possible initiatives and their cost.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 3, 2008, pp. 5-27
Description
Discusses how members of the United League of Indigenous Nations, including Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, are looking at the issue of climate change.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 11, no. 8, August 2008, p. 5
Description
Comments on the cycle some Aboriginal people are in, due to social problems, and the impact it has on children.
Article located by scrolling to page 5.
Chapter from The Concept of Indigenous Peoples in Asia: A Resource Book edited by Christian Erni.
Reprinted from American Journal of International Law ; vol. 92, no.3, July 1998.
Research Paper (National Centre for First Nations Governance)
Research Paper for the National Centre for First Nations Governance
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Robert B. Anderson
Bettina Schneider
Bob Kayseas
Description
Examines Roque Roldán Ortiga’s six criteria for judging the quality of a particular land and resources rights regime with regards to Indigenous governments; and looks at how those criteria can be used to measure the degree to which Aboriginal peoples in Canada have been successful with their struggle to have of their land, resource and other rights recognized.
Food Policy, vol. 33, no. 2, April 2008, pp. 135-155
Description
Argues that government policies are actually speeding the move away from traditional foods and contributing to the subsequent increase in chronic disease.
Describes why indigenous self-determination, now accepted at both the national and international level,
are hard rights to exercise due to the fact that they are not expressed in any specific institutional arrangement.
*Research paper from Comparative Research in Law & Political Economy.
Sexual Assault in Canada: Law, Legal Practice and Women's Activism
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Tracey Lindberg
Priscilla Campeau
Maria Campbell
Description
Examines four prominent cases involving sexual violence perpetrated against Indigenous women and girls by white men to demonstrate how the Canadian legal system has failed both to protect Indigenous women and to properly punish those responsible.
The four cases are: R v Edmondson, R v Jordan, R v Ramsay, and R v Ramsay.
Chapter from Sexual Assault in Canada: Law, Legal Practice and Women's Activism edited by Elizabeth A. Sheehy.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 98, no. 2, Summer, 2017, pp. 230-260
Description
Looks at articles published in The Province, the Vancouver Sun, and the Vancouver Times between 1957 and 1970, and analyzes the language that was used to describe the women and their deaths.