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.
Annual Aboriginal Land and Resource Management Conference ; 11th, 2009
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
John W. Gailus
Tim Thielmann
Description
Discusses three examples of opportunities First Nations have taken to enhance participation in the forest sector: the Gitxsan, the Klahoose First Nation, and the case of three First Nations with a collective forest licence.
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.
16th Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories
Standing Committee on Government Operations ; Report 6-16 (3) 2009
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kevin Menicoche
Robert Hawkins
Glen Abernethy
Jackie Jacobson
David Krutko
Description
Examines the administration and implementation of the Act, achievement of the objectives, effectiveness of the the provisions of the Act, and the roles and responsibilities of the Minister, Official Languages Board , the Aboriginal Languages Revitalization Board and the Languages Commissioner.
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.
The First Hawthorn Report, The Indians of British Columbia: A Survey of Social and Economic Conditions
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Byron King Plant
BC Studies, no. 163, Autumn, 2009, pp. 5-31
Description
Discusses the historical development, operation and implications of the project which was a comprehensive survey of Aboriginal life, society and economy.
Ethnohistory, vol. 36, no. 4, Fall, 1989, pp. 392-410
Description
Examines the legal and ethical issues surrounding the 1988 return of the belts, the Iroquois sense of proper behaviour on the occasion and the mutually satisfying outcome for both parties.
Canadian Public Administration, vol. 32, no. 1, Spring, 1989, pp. [135]-137
Description
Book reviews of: Aboriginal Self-Government Arrangements in Canada by Evelyn J. Peters, Completing Canada: Inuit Approaches to Self-Government by the Inuit Committee on National Issues, and Future Issues of Jurisdiction and Cooperation between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Governments by Ian B. Cowie.
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.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 4, April 2009, p. 11
Description
Discusses Métis citizens feelings of being rushed to implement Draft Duty to Consult and Accomodate policies without time to respond to the draft in a meaningful way.
Article located by scrolling to page 11.
Native Studies Review, vol. 5, no. 2, 1989, pp. 200-202
Description
Book review of: Special Issue: American Indian Governments in the Reagan Era, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 10, No. 2, 1986. Guest editor, Joseph Jorgensen.
Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians
p. 18
Description
Looks at a policy statement and process guide that reflects the developments and consistency of language between the Specific Claims Policy and the Specific Claims Tribunal Act.
Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 6, no. 2, Fall, 2009, pp. 12-17
Description
Focuses on the economic partnership between the five First Nation communities in Cape Breton and their involvement in the Sydney Tar Ponds Cleanup project.
Analysis of articles published in The Globe and Mail from 2000 to 2007.
Chapter from: Understanding Violence: Contexts and Portrayals edited by Marika Guggisberg and David Weir.