Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lori Chambers
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 51, no. 2, 2017, pp. 289-310
Description
Discusses failure of new protocols put in place to ensure safe drinking water on reserves and contrasts the response to the failure of water system in Walkerton, Ontario, which took place the same year.
Book Learning and Life Lessons: Chris Sindone of Haskell Indian Nations University
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Barbara Sorensen
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 28, no. 3, Indigenous Peoples History, Spring, 2017, p. [?]
Description
Looks at a young man who turned his life around after making some poor choices.
Book Review Essay
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Erich Steinman
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 20, no. 3, Fall, 2009, pp. 1-11
Description
Book reviews of:
The Politics of Minor Concerns: American Indian Policy and Congressional Dynamics by Charles Turner.
Taking Charge: Native American Self-Determination and Federal Indian Policy, 1975-1993 by George Pierre Castile.
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Bethany R. Berger
Ted Jojola
William C. Meadows
Joshua Piker
Margaret Noori
Brad Montgomery-Anderson
John K. Donaldson
Edward W. Huffstetler
Carla Mulford
Elizabeth Archuleta
et al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 33, no. 1, 2009, pp. 143-192
Description
Book reviews of 20 books:
American Indians and State Law: Sovereignty, Race, and Citizenship, 1790-1880 by Deborah A. Rosen.
Architectural Variability in the Southeast edited by Cameron H. Lacquement.
Art from Fort Marion: The Silberman Collection by Joyce M.
Brazeau Poor First Nations Rep on Senate
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
Star-Phoenix, January 16, 2009, p. A9
Description
Suggests that the newly appointed Senator, Patrick Brazeau (34 years old), does not speak for First Nations people and the author argues that a valuable voice has been lost in future legislation that would improve life for First Nations people.
Break Point: Fourth World Nation's International Resistance to Canada during Patriation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ruldoph C. Rÿser
BC Studies, vol. 212, The Constitution Express: A 40-Year Retrospective, Winter, 2021/2022, pp. 103-164
Description
Provides the historical background and impact of the Constitution Express. The author was an organizer and key strategist in the movement
Building on Common Ground: A New Vision for Impact Assessment in Canada: The Final Report of the Expert Panel for the Review of Environmental Assessment Processes
E-Books
Author/Creator
Johanne Gélinas
Doug Horswill
Rod Northey
Renée Pelletier
Building Police Legitimacy in a High Demand Environment: The Case of Yukon, Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Curt Taylor Griffiths
Peter Clark
Policing, vol. 40, no. 3, Police Legitimacy, 2017, pp. 560-573
Description
Case study explores the historical and contemporary factors that contribute to the challenges surrounding police-First Nations relations.
'But How Does This Help Me?': (Re)Thinking (Re)Conciliation in Teacher Education
Theses
Author/Creator
Kiera Kaia'tano:ron Brant
Description
Education Thesis (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 2017.
But I Was Wearing a Suit
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Continuing Legal Education Society of BC
Description
Indigenous lawyers and law students from British Columbia recount their experiences with stereotyping, race-based assumptions, and discrimination within the legal profession and while practicing in the justice system.
Duration: 25:43.
Related material: Part 2.
Calgary Police Service Anti-Racism Promising Practice Project: Literature Review
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Patrina Duhaney
Description
Sources include academic journals, books, and websites and grey literature; majority published after 2000.
Calls to Action Accountability: A 2021 Status Update on Reconciliation
Alternate Title
Calls to Action Accountability: A 2019 Status Update on Reconciliation
Calls to Action Accountability: A 2020 Status Update on Reconciliation
Calls to Action Accountability: A 2023 Status Update on Reconciliation
Calls to Action Accountability: A 2022 Status Update on Reconciliation
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Eva Jewell
Ian Mosby
Description
Looks at which of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Call2 to Action have been completed. 2023 Report, 2022 Report, 2020 Report.
Canada and the Legacy of the Indian Residential Schools: Transitional Justice for Indigenous People in a Non-Transitional Society
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Courtney Jung
Description
Expands on a previously published research brief.
Outlines three areas in which the interests and goals of government and Aboriginals may differ: scope of injustices, government's attempt to draw a line through the past and legitimate current policies, and government's use of the process as an attempt to assert authority.
Canada, British Columbia, and the Development of Indian Reserve No. 2, at Chuchuwayha
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karl Preuss
BC Studies, no. 163, Autumn, 2009, pp. 87-121
Description
Discusses support from the Department of Indian Affairs regarding Native interests using the community of Chuchuwayha settlement as an example.
Canada's and Europe's Northern Dimensions
E-Books
Author/Creator
Anita Dey Nuttall
Mark Nuttall
John Kozij
Arja Rautio
Mikko Vienonen ... [et al.]
Description
Scroll down to read book.
Canada's First Nations People: Ethnicity and Leadership
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jacqueline Ottmann
SA-eDUC Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, Special Edition on Education and Ethnicity, November 2009, pp. 100-116
Description
Supports the need to understand First Nations history from an Aboriginal perspective and the effects the Indian Act and residential school systems had on First Nations people in Canada.
Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Indian Residential Schools: Whose Truth? Whose Reconciliation?
Alternate Title
[Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference; 81st, 2009]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nadine Changfoot
Description
Explores the theory that the experience of victimization will not change if the power structure which inflicted the damage remains unchanged.
Canada Treaty Information: Welcome to the Treaty Section
Alternate Title
Welcome to the Treaty Section
Web Sites » Governmental
Author/Creator
The Government of Canada
Description
Introduction to the 'nuts and bolts' of Canadian treaty making activities as part of the treaty section of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.
Canada: Violence against Indigenous Women and Girls
Alternate Title
UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination ; 93rd Session, 31 July - 25 August 2017
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Amnesty International Canada
Assembly of First Nations
Assembly of the First Nations of Quebec and Labrador
British Columbia Assembly of First Nations
Canadian Friends Service Committee (Quakers) … [et al.]
Description
Joint statement submitted to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 93rd Session, 31 July - 25 August 2017.
Canadian Indigenous Place Name Legislation and Policies
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
David Laidlaw
Description
Discusses entities currently responsible for official place names and their processes, and some of the practicalities which need to be addressed when reverting to the Indigenous names.
The Canadian Response to Aboriginal Residential Schools: Lessons for Australia and the United States?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Julie Cassidy
E Law: Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law, vol. 16, no. 2, 2009, pp. 38-71
Description
Discusses the historic compensation package agreed to by the Canadian federal government and the lack of any similar actions by the governments of the other two countries.
Carnal Crimes: Sexual Assault in Canada, 1900-1975
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Debra Parkes
Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, vol. 21, no. 2, 2009, pp. 409-416
Description
Book review of: Carnal Crimes by Constance Backhouse.
Cash Back: A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Yellowhead Institute
Description
Looks at how the Canadian economy has been built by using Indigenous lands and waterways to create corporate profit and national power and how this process has left First Nations impoverished. Discusses the reparations needed as part of decolonization process.
The Cedar Project: Exploring the Health Related Correlates of Child Welfare and Incarceration Among Young Aboriginal People in Two Canadian Cities
Theses
Author/Creator
Adam Clarkson
Description
Health Care and Epidemiology Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of British Columbia, 2009.
Chairperson-Initiated Complaint and Public Interest Investigation Regarding Policing in Northern British Columbia: Chairperson's Final Report after Commissioner's Response
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ian McPhail
Description
Investigation examined RCMP members' conduct in six areas: public intoxication, cross-gender searches, missing persons reports, domestic violence reports, use of force, and handling of files involving youth.
Appendices include interim report and RCMP Commissioner's preliminary review and response.
Challenges and Opportunities For Indigenous Nationalities in the Face of REDD Partnerships in Nepal
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Pasang Dolma Sherpa
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1-2, REDD and Indigenous Peoples, 2009, pp. 50-57
Description
Discusses how recognition of Indigenous practices and culture in forest governance and traditional livelihood should be considered when establishing community forest management systems.
Challenges of Prison Ethnography
Alternate Title
In Focus: Challenges of Prison Ethnography
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James B. Waldram
Anthropology News, vol. 50, no. 1, January 2009, pp. 4-5
Description
Brief discussion of the probems anthropologists face when carrying out research in prison environments.
Challenging Colonial Norms and Attending to Presencing in Stories of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Josephine L. Savarese
Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, vol. 29, no. 1, 2017, pp. 157-181
Description
Documents "resistance by missing and murdered women during and beyond their physical lifetimes".
Challenging Historical Frameworks: Aboriginal Rights, The Trickster, and Originalism
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Borrows
The Canadian Historical Review, vol. 98, no. 1, March 2017, pp. 114-135
Description
Asserts that Canadian Aboriginal and treaty laws should reflect our shared history.
"The Chameleon Indigenous Sovereignty": The Colonial Prismatic View of its Different Shades in Ghana, Canada and the United States
Theses
Author/Creator
Kwesi Baffoe
Description
Law Thesis (L.L.D.)--University of Ottawa, 2009.
Changes Come to the Canadian Prairies
Alternate Title
Horizons: Canada's Emerging Identity
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
[Michael Cranny]
Description
Focuses on the numbered treaties and their effect on First Nations and the Métis, and the causes and impacts of the North-West Resistance. Intended for Grade 10 Social Studies students.
Chapter from Horizons: Canada's Emerging Identity, 2nd Edition, by Michael Cranny.
Changes to the Indian Act Affecting Indian Registration and Band Membership: McIvor v. Canada: Discussion Paper
Web Sites » Governmental
Author/Creator
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
Description
Discusses changes based on the ruling from the McIvor case that found parts of the Indian Act not compliant with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Changing the Culture of Forestry in Canada: Building Effective Institutions for Aboriginal Engagement in Sustainable Forest Management
Alternate Title
Occasional Paper Series (CCI Press) ; no. 60
Research and Insights from the Aboriginal Research Program of the Sustainable Forest Management Network ; vol. 1
E-Books
Author/Creator
Marc G. Stevenson
David C. Natcher
R. Michael O'Flaherty
Iain J. Davidson-Hunt
Andrew M. Miller
Changing the Subject: The TRC, Its National Events, and the Displacement of Substantive Reconciliation in Canadian Media Discourse
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Matt James
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 51, no. 2, Spring, 2017, pp. 362-397
Description
Looks at reconciliation discourse in the mainstream print media before, during and over the course of the life of the TRC.
Characteristics of a Nation-to-Nation Relationship: Discussion Paper
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Marcia Nickerson
Description
Topics include definition of relationship, jurisdiction, intergovernmental fiscal relationships, wealth creation, and future actions to close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians.
Chenoo
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Greg Olson
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 2017, pp. 98-99
Description
Book review of: Chenoo by Joseph Bruchac.
The Child and Family Services Act in Relation to Indigenous Children: Does it Measure up to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report?
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Hilary Brown
Canadian Family Law Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 2, June 2017, pp. 171-191
Description
Discusses the crisis of the overrepresentation of Indigenous children in the child welfare system as a direct consequence of the residential school system.
Child Maltreatment-Related Investigations Involving First Nations Infants in Canada in 2019
Alternate Title
First Nations/Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect 2019
FN/CIS 2019
FN/CIS 2019: Focus on Developmental Stages Series
Child Maltreatment-Related Investigations Involving First Nations Children Aged One to Three Years Old in Canada in 2019
Child Maltreatment-Related Investigations Involving First Nations Children Aged Four to Seven Years Old in Canada In 2019
Child Maltreatment-Related Investigations Involving First Nations Children Aged 8-11 Years Old in Canada in 2019
CWRP Information Sheet ; no. 220
Child Welfare Research Portal Information Sheet ; no. 220
CWRP Information Sheet ; no 221
Child Welfare Research Portal Information Sheet ; no. 221
CWRP Information Sheet ; no. 222
Child Welfare Research Portal Information Sheet ; no. 222
CWRP Information Sheet ; no. 223
Child Welfare Research Portal Information Sheet ; no. 223
Child Maltreatment-Related Investigations Involving First Nations Children Aged 12-15 Years Old in Canada in 2019
CWRP Information Sheet ; no. 224
Child Welfare Research Portal Information Sheet ; no. 224
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Barbara Fallon
Nicolette Joh-Carnella
Marie Saint-Girons
A Chronology of Important Events in the Genocides and Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Diana Vinding
Robert K. Hitchcock
Genocide Studies and Prevention, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 2009, pp. 111-125
Description
Lists events around the world in order of occurrence from 1492-2008.
Churches Develop Resource: Native Study Guide Helps Reconciliation
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Marites N. Sison
Anglican Journal, vol. 135, no. 2, February 2009, p. 1,3
Description
Overview of a creative discussion guide, prepared by writers from Anglican, United and Presbyterian churches, that can be used to explore the issue of forced assimilation of First Nations through residential schools.
Claiming the City: Co-operation and Making the Deal in Urban Comprehensive Land Claims Negotiations in Canada
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Christopher Alcantara
Jen Nelles
no. 3
Description
Looks at a case study of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation treaty negotiations in the Yukon Territory, and discusses a theoretical framework and findings to understand and explain other treaty negotiations involving municipal lands.
The Clay We Are Made Of: Haudenosaunee Land Tenure on the Grand River
Alternate Title
Critical Studies in Native History ; 20
E-Books
Author/Creator
Susan M. Hill
Critical Studies in Native History
Closed Stranger Adoption, Māori and Race Relations in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1955-1985
Alternate Title
Closed Stranger Adoption, Maori and Race Relations in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1955-1985
Theses
Author/Creator
Maria Haenga-Collins
Description
[Indigenous History] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Australian National University, 2017.
[Closing the Gap: The Hon[ourable] Kevin Rudd]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Kevin Rudd
Description
Comments on what the National Apology to Australia's Indigenous Peoples meant and what remains to be done as a country.
Duration: 33:18.
Coast Salish Laws Relating to Child and Caregiver Nurturance and Safety Toolkit
Alternate Title
Abridged Casebook: Coast Salish Laws Relating to Child and Caregiver Nurturance and Safety
Activity Book 1: Coast Salish Laws Relating to Child and Caregiver Nurturance and Safety
Activity Book 2: Coast Salish Laws Relating to Child and Caregiver Nurturance and Safety
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jessica Asch
Tara Williamson
Leslie-Ann Paige
Description
Resources are designed for professionals working with Salish nations, families, caregivers, youth, and communities.
Collaborative Consent and British Columbia's Water: Towards Watershed Co-Governance
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Merrell-Ann Phare
Rosie Simms
Oliver M. Brandes
Michael Miltenberger
Description
Discusses how Crown and Indigenous governments can engage with each other on the basis of a nation-to-nation relationship to develop regimes for management of resources which ensure mutually beneficial outcomes.
The Colonial Legacy: The Legal Oppression of Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Asha Collins
Glendon Journal of International Studies, vol. 10, 2017, pp. [1]-22
Description
Comments on the role the Canadian government played in the systematic oppression and discrimination towards Indigenous women.
Colonial Proximities: Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921
Alternate Title
Law and Society Series
E-Books
Author/Creator
Renisa Mawani
Law and Society Series
Colonial Reckoning, National Reconciliation?: Aboriginal Peoples and the Culture of Redress in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jennifer Henderson
Pauline Wakeham
English Studies in Canada, vol. 35, no. 1, [Special Issue: Aboriginal Redress], March 2009, pp. 1-26
Description
Discusses colonial suppression and attempts to extinguish Indigenous cultures and looks at ways to redress colonial injustices against Indigenous peoples.
Coming Together, Making Progress: Business's Role in Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Description
Comments on the necessity of a partnerships between Canadian businesses, the Crown and Indigenous people.