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"Our Hope and Our Protection": Misko-biiwaabik (Copper) and Tribal Sovereignty in Michigan
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Erik M. Redix
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 3, Summer, 2017, pp. 224-249
Description
Argues that the Smithsonian's refusal to repatriate a sacred boulder illustrates how the Lake Superior Ojibwe experienced colonialism in that its removal was part of the exploitation of rich copper deposits in the area.
Our Women and Girls Are Sacred: Interim Report: The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
E-Books
Author/Creator
Marion Buller
Michèle Audette
Brian Eyolfson
Qajaq Robinson
Over-represented But Not Understood: Sentencing Provisions as an Inadequate Response to the Over Incarceration of Aboriginal peoples in Nova Scotia
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Brady Tanner Reid
Description
Reviews ten sentencing decisions to better understand how s. 718.2(e) of the Criminal Code and R. vs. Gladue 1999 are interpreted by sentencing judges.
Criminology Honours Thesis (B.A.)--Saint Mary's University, 2017.
Paddling Together: Co-Governance Models for Regional Cumulative Effects Management
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jessica Clogg
Gavin Smith
Deborah Carlson
Hannah Askew
Description
Includes case studies of co-management models from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Florida.
The People of Denendeh: Ethnohistory of the Indians of Canada's Northwest Territories
Alternate Title
McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series ; 24
E-Books
Author/Creator
June Helm
Pictou v. The Queen, 2000 CanLII 143 (T.C.C.)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Tax Court of Canada
Description
Court case involving several Mi'kmaqs' failure to collect GST from their retail businesses located on reserves in Nova Scotia.
Plain Talk 14: First Nations Accountability
Alternate Title
It's Our Time First Nations Tool Kit
Plain Talk ; 14
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Assembly of First Nations]
Description
Looks at Bill C-27, The Financial Accountability and Transparency of First Nations Bill.
Plain Talk 4: Treaties
Alternate Title
It's Our Time: First Nations Tool Kit
Plain Talk ; 4
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Assembly of First Nations]
Description
Presents the history of treaties between the Crown and First Nations of Canada.
Political Responses
Alternate Title
[Daniels: In and Beyond the Law]
[Métisland: Métis Settlements and the Daniels Decision]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Will Goodon
Gerald Cunningham
Description
President of the Métis Settlements General Council discusses its involvement in the Daniels case and actions of the Council since the decision. Second speaker discusses the political and historical context of the case, analyzes the court's judgement, and suggests possible future actions.
Duration: 1:15:01.
Presentations are part of the conference "Daniels: In and Beyond the Law" held at University of Alberta, Jan. 26-27, 2017.
Politics and Public Servants: Observations on the Current State of Criminal Law Reform
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary E. Campbell
Canadian Journal of Criminology, vol. 42, no. 3, July 1, 2000, pp. 341-354
Description
Discusses the environment and key issues influencing the debate concerning ethics versus politics in law reform.
The Politics of Minor Concerns: Congressional Dynamics and American Indian Legislation, 1947-1998
Theses
Author/Creator
Charles C. Turner
Description
Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--Claremont Graduate University, 2000.
Postcolonial Ledger Drawing: Legal Reform
Alternate Title
Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
James (Sakej) Youngblood Henderson
Description
Chapter 12 of: Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision, edited by Marie Battiste.
Preface: [BC Studies, No. 89, 1991]
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Doreen Jensen
Cheryl Brooks
BC Studies, no. 89, In Celebration of Our Survival: The First Nations of British Columbia, Spring, 1991, pp. 8-12
Description
Introduces special issue written, compiled and edited by Aboriginal peoples from British Columbia.
A President in Indian Country: Calvin Coolidge and Lakota Diplomacy in the Summer of 1927
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Eric Steven Zimmer
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 3, Summer, 2017, pp. 215-234
Description
Looks at how Henry Standing Bear and Chauncey Yellow Robe capitalized on the historical presidential visit to the Pine Ridge reservation.
Preventing Crime or ‘Warehousing’ the Underprivileged?
Mandatory Sentencing in the Northern Territory
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Campbell Thomson
Indigenous Law Bulletin, no. 102, 2000
Description
Looks at mandatory sentencing and crime in the Northern Territory of Australia.
A Primer on the Constitutional Duty to Consult
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
OKT Law
Description
Explains the Duty to Consult and Accommodate, Section 35 of the Constitution Act of 1982 to protect Aboriginal and treaty rights.
Progressive-Era Bureaucrats and the Unity of Twentieth-Century Indian Policy
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Russel Lawrence Barsh
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 1, Winter, 1991, pp. 1-17
Description
Article examines the Indian Policy of the United States government; argues that the policies hold at their core an evolutionary perspective on social development which places the United States government in a paternalist role, guiding Indigenous people through the evolution of their race.
The Pursuit of Inuit Sovereignty in Greenland
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Rauna Kuokkanen
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 5, no. 2, Innovations in Community Health and Wellness, July 2017, pp. 46-49
Description
Looks at the Greenland Self-Government Act which is an extension of the Home Rule Act
"The Queen and I": Discrimination Against Women in the Indian Act Continues
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lynn Gehl
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 20, no. 2, National Identity and Gender Politics, Summer, 2000, pp. 64-69
Description
Discussion of identity under the Indian Act and the past discriminatory provision of women who marry non-Indian men losing thier status, and social and political rights.
The Queensland Aboriginal Land Act 1991
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frank Brennan
Aboriginal Law Bulletin, vol. 2, no. 50, 1991, p. 32
Description
Looks at the consultation that brought about some positive legislation in terms of land rights.
Racial Discrimination in Legislation, Litigation, Legend and Lore
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Anthony J. Hall
Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. 32, no. 2, April 30, 2000, p. 119
Description
Book reviews of: Colour-Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950 by Constance Backhouse and Race, Rights and the Law in the Supreme Court: Historical Case Studies by James W. St. G. Walker.
Racial Extractivism: Neoliberal White Settler Colonialism and Tar Sands Extraction
Theses
Author/Creator
Jennifer Preston
Description
Social and Political Thought Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2017.
Racially "Indian", Legally "White": The Canadian State's Struggles to Categorize the Métis, 1850-1900
Theses
Author/Creator
Jennifer Hayter
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2017.
Recognition, Reconciliation and Healing
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
John Giokas
Description
Discusses both the technical and common meanings of the term “recognition”, and examines a number of ways in which the existence, history and contributions of the Aboriginal people of Manitoba could be recognized by the Manitoba government.
Recommendations on First Nations Access to Indian Moneys
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
National Aboriginal Economic Development Board
Description
Discusses current legislative regime governing access to moneys derived from reserve lands which are held in trust in the Consolidated Revenue Fund and mechanisms available through optional legislation, and makes recommendations which would enable Bands to receive funds directly and in a timely manner.
Reconciliation is an English Word
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jason Mercredi
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 5, no. 2, Innovations in Community Health and Wellness, July 2017, pp. 58-61
Description
Comments on the proposed >Indigenous Languages Act
Reform of the Norwegian Mineral Legislation and the Interests of the Sami People
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jan Petter Romsaas
Mineral Resources Engineering, vol. 9, no. 1, March 2000, pp. 25-38
Description
Looks at the history of mineral legislation, a new Mineral Act, and the Sami people's rights in Norway.
Regional Report of Inquiry Into Underlying Issues In Western Australia
Alternate Title
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
[Parliamentary paper ; no. 1991/135-136]
E-Books
Author/Creator
P.L. Dodson
Rehabilitating the Native: Hawaiian Blood Quantum and the Politics of Race, Citizenship, and Entitlement
Theses
Author/Creator
J. Kehaulani Kauanui
Description
History of Consciousness Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 2000.
Remembering Why We Sit at the Table
Theses
Author/Creator
Faith Decontie
Description
Sociology and Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2017.
Discusses the Cree Nation of Chisasibi's Land Based Healing Program.
Repatriation at the Pueblo of Zuni: Diverse Solutions to Complex Problems
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
T. J. Ferguson
Roger Anyon
Edmond J. Ladd
pp. 239-265
Description
Chapter thirteen in book: Repatriation Reader: Who Owns American Indian Remains? edited by Devon A. Mihesuah.
The Report of the British Columbia Claims Task Force
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Joe Mathias
Miles G. Richardson
Audrey Stewart
Murray Coolican
Edward John
Tony Sheridan
L. Allan Williams
Description
Contains sections on: scope, process, interim measures and public information and education.
A Report on the Corbière Consultation: A Consultation Process for the Follow-Up on the Corbière Decision
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC)
Description
Report discusses the practical recommendations needed to facilitate elections and referenda taking place November 20, 2000. These recommendations, if acted upon, will ensure the rights of non-resident band members to fully participate in the democratic process.
Responding to Human Trafficking: Dispossession, Colonial Violence, and Resistance among Indigenous and Racialized Women
E-Books
Author/Creator
Julie Kaye
Restorative Justice in Canada
Articles » General
Author/Creator
E. D. Bayda
FORUM on Corrections Research , vol. 12, no. 1, Aboriginal People in Corrections, January 2000, pp. 28-31
Description
Prepared from speech given by the Chief Justice of Saskatchewan at the Correctional Service of Canada Commissioner’s Forum, May, 1999.
Review Essay: Aboriginal Peoples and Democracy in Canada
Alternate Title
Aboriginal Peoples and Democracy in Canada
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Alex McLean
Native Studies Review, vol. 13, no. 2, 2000, pp. 154-158
Description
Book reviews of three books: Citizens Plus: Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian State by Alan C. Cairns; First Nations? Second Thoughts by Tom Flanagan; Ideas in Action: Essays on Politics and Law in Honour of Peter Russell edited by Joseph Fletcher.
Review of Accountability and Mutual Accountability Frameworks: Final Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Institute on Governance
Description
Focuses on funding agreements used in different levels of government including: land claims/modern treaties, territorial formula financing, international agreements and treaties, block funding, transfer payments, municipal transfer payments, and institutional authorities.
Rivers of Sand: Creek Indian Emigration, Relocation, and Ethnic Cleansing in the American South
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Melanie Vasselin
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 4, no. 2, 2017, pp. 95-96
Description
Book review of: Rivers of Sand by Christopher D. Haveman.
Russian Laws on Indigenous Issues: Guarantees, Communities, Territories of Transitional Land Use: Translated and Commented
E-Books
Author/Creator
Maksim Zadorin
Olga Klisheva
Ksenia Vezhlivtseva
Daria Antufieva
Saskatchewan Common Table Processes: Framework for Governance of Treaty First Nations Between Her Majesty in Right of Canada as Represented by the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Her Majesty in Right of Saskatchewan as Represented by the Minister of Intergovernmental and Aboriginal Affairs and Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations as Represented by the Chief of the Federation
Documents & Presentations
Description
Agreement to negotiate a framework required to reach an Umbrella Governance and Fiscal Agreement.
Say We Are Nations: Documents of Politics and Protest in Indigenous America Since 1887
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Rose Soza War Soldier
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 3, Summer, 2017, pp. 294-297
Description
Book review of Say We Are Nations by Daniel M. Cobb
Selected Bibliography on Nunavut
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jack Hicks
Description
Focuses on the negotiation and implementation of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement and the design and implementation of the Government of Nunavut.
Settler Biopower: Accumulation and Dispossession in Canada's Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lara Fullenwieder
Settler Colonial Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, 2017, pp. 1-20
Description
Explains why settler colonialism is a structure not an event.
Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing: Documentary Governance of Indigenous Life in Canada and Its Disruption
Theses
Author/Creator
Danielle Taschereau Mamers
Description
Media Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Ontario, 2017.
Sexual Equality as an Aboriginal Right: The Native Women's Association and the Constitutional Process on Aboriginal Matters, 1982-1987
Alternate Title
Nijmegen Studies in Development and Cultural Change ; vol. 7
Theses
Author/Creator
Lilianne Ernestine Krosenbrink-Gelissen
Description
Cultural Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Radboud University Nijmegen, 1991.
Sovereignty on the Northern Plains: Indian, European , American and Canadian Claims
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ken McNeil
Journal of the West, vol. 39, no. 3, 2000, pp. 10-18
Description
Looks at the proof of sovereignty in the United States and Canada and the misinterpretation of court decisions.
Sparrow v The Queen: Indigenous Fishing - Regulation - Consistency with Constitution s.35(1) which Recognises and Affirms "Existing Aboriginal ... Rights" - Justification Required
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Garth Nettheim
Aboriginal Law Bulletin, vol. 2, no. 48, February 1991, p. 7
Description
Decision that demonstrates the constitutionalisation of Aboriginal rights and argues that Aboriginal rights need to be respected in their own terms and not necessarily simply to fit within common law concepts.
Speaking Truth to Power II: Where Do We Go from Here?
Alternate Title
Speaking Truth to Power II: A Treaty Forum, [March, 2000?]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Miles Richardson
Milton Wong
Alan Cairns
Stephen Cornell
Description
Collection of speeches, summary of discussion, and synopsis of open space sessions from a forum held under the auspices of the BC Treaty Commission.
Station Camps: Legislation, Labour Relations and Rations on Pastoral Leases in the Kimberley Region, Western Australia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Pamela A. Smith
Aboriginal History, vol. 24, 2000, pp. [75]-97
Description
Comments on methods used by pastoralists to control the Aboriginal population and to guarantee a cheap labour force from colonization until the 1970s.