Highlights several successful initiatives across Canada which help individuals fund the purchase, or building, of a home. Many have set up a system of band-controlled revolving funds to deal with the restrictions of the Indian Act.
Review of Constitutional Studies, vol. 16, no. 1, 2011, pp. 1-29
Description
Examines how the Meech Lake Accord resulted in increased activism and the implications for national politics and Aboriginal policy. Also explores how the momentum of that period has been lost and what could be done to renew it.
Recognizing Rangatiratanga: Sharing Power with Maori through Co-mangement
Theses
Author/Creator
Samuel George Wevers
Description
Explores the issues surrounding treaty and co-management structures for the shared administration of natural resources in traditional territories.
Bachelor of Laws (Honours) dissertation.
Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 7, no. 2, Fall, 2011, pp. 78-89
Description
Looks at inclusion of local values and visions in the forest governance, ecosystems and development shared between First Nations and partner municipalities.
Council of Canadians Submission on Bill S-11 to Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Council of Canadians
Description
Critiques the Act and makes the following recommendations for revision: funding commitments and roles be stipulated, the right of communities to build and own and operate their own systems explicitly stated, liabilities and responsibilities for governments and private companies be outlined, and a clause on free, prior and informed consent be included.
Aboriginal Peoples and Constitutional Reform. Discussion Paper
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
David C. Hawkes
Description
Discusses negotiations concerning aboriginal peoples and the constitutional reform as of February 1987, the major issues involved and the prospects for successful resolution.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 2, no. 1, Health and Well-being, 2011, pp. 1-12
Description
Examines the shift towards equal partnership between federal, provincial and First Nations governments in British Columbia regarding health care services and implications for the rest of Canada.
Looks at "modern approach" to interpretation, reviews last three decades of judicial interpretation, and discusses an alternate procedure based on Anishinabe legal principles and Indigenous understandings.
Comprehensive website intended as a resource for American Indian and Alaskan Native Nations and people, tribal justice systems, victims and tribal service providers, and the improvement of justice.
Contains links to: tribal law, federal law, state law, and other resources.
Discussion on the injustice of the federal government's actions regarding Indian land rights and the class action lawsuit regarding the federal government’s failure to fulfill its fiduciary duty for assets held in trust by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Looks at lawsuit filed by the Colville Indian Reservation in 1951 against the United Sates government regarding lands used for the building of the Grand Coulee Dam.
History Capstone Thesis--Commonwealth Honors College, 2011.
Royal Society of Canada 2012 Governor General Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
James Miller
Description
Canada Research Chair in Native-Newcomer Relations traces the history of treaty-making from its early beginnings with the Peace and Friendship Treaties through to the present day.
Lecture given at Dalhousie University.
Duration: 41:17.
Royal Society of Canada 2012 Governor General Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Jim Miller
Description
Speaker discusses the initial relationship between Aboriginals and Europeans, the motives behind the numbered treaties, the two parties' differing interpretations of the agreements, and the modern situation.
Lecture given at the University of Victoria.
Duration: 40:16.