[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.
States that the jurisdictions of the provinces and First Nations overlap in many areas and argues that provincial governments have not come to grips with this reality.
Aboriginal Children in Limbo: A Comment on Re: R. T.
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Emily Grier
Saskatchewan Law Review, vol. 68, no. 2, 2005, pp. 435-453
Description
Argues that 20 years after problems were first publicized about child welfare little has changed, except for the policy that First Nations' children cannot be placed for adoption without the consent of the child's band or the First Nations' Child and Services agency.
Aboriginal Horizontal Framework: Programs and Spending Overview
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Treasury Board Secretariat
Government of Canada]
Description
Overview of Aboriginal-direct programming and spending offered by the Government of Canada. The 360 programs and services are arranged under seven thematic headings: Health, Lifelong Learning, Housing, Safe and Sustainable Communities, Economic Opportunities, Lands and Resources and Governance and Relationships.
Joint initiative of Province, Manitoba Metis Federation, Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs and Manitoba Keewatinook Ininew Okimowin about development and implementation of an improved child welfare system in Manitoba.
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.
Aboriginal People and the Criminal Justice System in Saskatchewan: What Next?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul L. A. H. Chartrand
Saskatchewan Law Review, vol. 68, no. 2, 2005, pp. 253-292
Description
Summarizes the Conference held in Saskatoon at the Delta Bessborough Hotel in 2005, as well as the background and work of two commissions: Commission of First Nations and Métis Peoples and Justice Reform and the Commission of Inquiry into Matters Relating to the Death of Neil Stonechild.
Examines Aboriginal issues pertinent to the development of oil and gas reserves within Alberta, such as unresolved First Nations Treaty and land claim issues and federal and provincial requirements for consultation on treaty and fiduciary obligations.
Atlantis, vol. 29, no. 2, [Indigenous Women: The State of Our Nations], 2005, pp. 1-21
Description
Discusses incorporating individual experiences and circumstances into discussions of collective self-determination and what strategies are needed to move forward.
Correcting Course: Rebalancing Copyright for Libraries in the National and International Arena
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jane Anderson
Description
Explores issues of interpretation of fair use, historical collection of material, intellectual property and copyright, and Indigenous people as new user groups.
Commentary on the history and developments in Saskatchewan First Nation affairs and of a media that seems to favour sensationalism over positive political legacies.
Alberta History, vol. 53, no. 3, Summer, 2005, pp. 13-24
Description
Discusses a gathering of Kainai, Pikuni and Siksika Nations for a political convention conducted under the surveillance by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
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.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 2, no. 1, 2005, pp. 89-116
Description
Discussion of feedback that developed between researchers of the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (CIS), Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and people from First Nations Child and Family Services Agencies (FNCFS Agencies).