[Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future Forum, November 2016]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Yvonne Boyer
Josee Lavoie
Derek Kornelson
Jeff Reading
Description
Paper given at the Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future: Realizing the Promise, Facing the Challenge of Reconciliation" Forum, dialog and conference marking the 20th anniversary of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, November 2-3, 2016.
National Roundtable on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG)
Description
Includes preamble, outcomes, priorities for action, reconciliation, addressing social and economic inequalities, community safety, culturally relevant policing measures and justice responses, background, and follow-up and sharing of outcomes.
First Nations Women's Council on Economic Security
Government of Alberta
Description
Focuses on women's issues in the areas of leadership and empowerment, professional development, restorative justice, access to justice, post-secondary education and upgrading, and Indigenous representation on school boards.
American Indian Law Review, vol. 17, no. 2, 1992, pp. 457-521
Description
Article seeks to illustrate the complexity of the ownership issue and urges governments and museums to reevaluate perceived rights to cultural property.
Current Research: The Aboriginal courtworker Program of Manitoba: A Needs Assessment
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Thérèse Lajeunesse and Associates Ltd.
Canadian Journal of Criminology, vol. 34, no. 3/4, July-October 1992, p. [?]
Description
Looks at the need for courtworker services and at the Aboriginal courtworker program regarding number and locations of workers, programming and administration.
University of British Columbia Law Review, vol. 26, Special Edition: Aboriginal Justice, 1992, pp. 1-3
Description
Highlights the five papers in volume, which were originally commissioned as background studies to the Law Reform Commission's report Aboriginal Peoples and Criminal Justice: Equality, Respect and the Search for Justice.
Power point provides overview of history, facts about current situation, Constitutional rights, the Crown's duty to consult and accommodate, and Canada's international obligations.
University of British Columbia Law Review, Special Edition: Aboriginal Justice, 1992, pp. [239]-279
Description
Various contributors give the "Aboriginal perspective" on the current applications of the Criminal Code, workings of the justice system in general, and required improvements.
Outlines the transfer of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory to the Dominion of Canada, and compares the Hudson Bay Company's claim versus the Aboriginal claim.
Aboriginal Victories at Constitutional Talks; Oldman Dam Opponents Receive Support; Arrests at Logging Blockade
cs canada 16.3
Articles » General
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 3, Speaking for Ourselves, Fall, 1992
Description
Discussion of an aboriginal consitution success, a recommendation to the government regarding an environmental assessment, and a protest staged in Saskatchewan.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 16, no. 1, 1992, pp. 137-163
Description
Chronicles the brief rise and fall of Bill S.2770, the Indian Finance Corporation Act, in the U.S. Senate in 1990, which, the author argues, could have been a powerful positive force in solving problems of underdevelopment.
Report by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1974, declassified in 1992. Presents chronology of violence attributed to the American Indian Movement.
Award-winning documentary about the Inuit's battle against a new European Union seal ban in an effort to regain their economic independence.
Duration: 1:22:19.
Plaintiffs asked for three judicial declarations: that Métis and non-status Indians are considered "Indians" in the Constitution Act, 1867, that federal Crown owes a fiduciary duty to the two groups, and that they have the right to be consulted and negotiated with by the federal government.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 16, no. 2, 1992, pp. 37-56
Description
Chronicles the complex relationship between archaeologists and Native Americans. The author argues that changes have only occured because of law, not ethics.
Speaker argues that negotiations between the Red River Métis and the Canadian government prior to passage of The Manitoba Act constituted treaty-making.
Duration: 1:04:03.