In the Light of Reverence and the Rhetoric of American Indian Religious Freedom: Negotiating Rights and Responsibilities in the Struggle to Protect Sacred Lands
In the Matter of Bill C-6, An Act to establish the Canadian Centre for the Independent Resolution of First Nations Specific Claims to provide for the filing, negotiation and resolution of specific claims and to make related amendments to other Acts: "The Specific Claims Resolution Act"
Incarceration and the Aboriginal Offender: Potential Impacts of the Tackling Violent Crime Act and the Corrections Review Panel Recommendations
Argues that escalating mandatory sentences for serious firearm offences, increasing penalties for impaired driving, and reverse onus for bail when accused of serious offences and having someone declared a dangerous offender will have the effect of increasing incarceration rates. Excerpt from Exploring the Urban Landscape edited by Jerry P. White and Jodi Bruhn. Originally presented at the 2009 Aboriginal Policy Research Conference.
The Incarceration of Aboriginal Offenders: Trends from 1978 to 2001
Incarceration Rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples: Discussion Paper
Incentives, Identity, and the Growth of Canada's Indigenous Population
Income Tax Rules for Aboriginal People
Research paper analyzes Section 87 of the Indian Act and finds that only 5.6% of Aboriginal people could potentially qualify for income tax exemption.
Related Material: Fact Sheet.
The Indian Arts and Crafts Act
Indian Claims Commission: Annual Report 2001-2002
Indian Claims Commission: ICC's Mediation Process
"As directed by Order in Council P.C. 2007-1789, the Commission must cease all its activities, including those related to mediation, by March 31, 2009." [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Indian Claims Commission Proceedings (2003) 16 ICCP Special Issue on Interim Rulings Rulings on Government of Canada Objections
Indian Gaming in the U.S.: A Broad Introduction
Indian Given: Racial Geographies Across Mexico and the United States
Indian Governance Law Doomed to Failure
Indian Lands Registration Manual: July 2013
Indian Registration, Membership, and Population Change in FirstNations Communities
Study looks at classification of membership codes, changes to membership rules, projected populations eligible under new rules, and implications of population changes. Chapter five from Moving Forward, Making a Difference, vol. 3, which is also vol. 5 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series. Originally presented at the second annual Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2006.
Indian Registration: Unrecognized and Unstated Paternity
Looks at 1985 amendments to Indian Act. Chapter six from Moving Forward, Making a Difference, vol. 3, which is also vol. 5 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series. Originally presented at the second annual Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2006.
The Indian Removal Debate and Rise of Partisan Identity in the Age of Jackson
Indian Residential Schools Adjudication Secretariat Annual Report: 2013: Annual Report of the Chief Adjudicator to the Independent Assessment Process Oversight Committee
Indian Residential Schools Were a Crime and Canada's Criminal Justice System Could Not Have Cared Less: The IRS Criminal Court Cases
Indian Rights for Indian Babies: Canada's "Unstated Paternity" Policy
Indian Status, Band Membership, First Nation Citizenship, Kinship, Gender, and Race: Reconsidering the Role of Federal Law
Discusses how legislation such as the Indian Act, with its arbitrary rules about who is considered to be an "Indian", has impacted relationships and identity in Aboriginal communities. Chapter seven from Moving Forward, Making a Difference, vol. 3, which is also vol. 5 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series. Originally presented at the second annual Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2006.