Canadian Review of Social Policy, no. 56, 2006, pp. 40-71
Description
Comprehensive look at sex discriminatory policies and questions about the process of colonial intrusion, histories of adaptation, and the accommodation of this policy.
Discusses issues such as Treaty and human rights, accountability, free and informed consent and methodologies and makes recommendations for the conduct of future studies.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 30, no. 4, 2006, pp. 19-40
Description
Focuses on the effects that logging, overfishing, and urbanization have on industrial salmon farming. Also discusses how consultation may be a repressive tactic, rather than a means of protecting title and rights.
Native Studies Review, vol. 10, no. 2, 1995, pp. 77-95
Description
Outlines four major change agents operating on Aboriginal political organizations on the prairies: external politics; internal politics; negotiation of ethno-Aboriginal identities; perceived effectiveness of the organizations.
From White Indians to Pakeha-Maori: Unruly White Men in Canada's and New Zealand's Colonial Pasts
Historicising Whiteness Conference, University of Melbourne, 22-24 November, 2006
Historicising Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on the Construction of Identity
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Angela Wanhalla
Description
Discusses men who married Aboriginal women, lived on reserves and were considered a threat to maintaining separate racial spaces..
Chapter in book: Historicising Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on Construction of Identity edited by Leigh Boucher, Jane Carey, and Katherine Ellinghaus.
American Antiquity, vol. 60, no. 1, January 1995, pp. 131-159
Description
Examines the U.S.A. Federal Archeological Resources Protection Act and the GE Mound case, which was the first prosecution and conviction of a group of looters.
Minister of the Environment and Parks Canada, Rona Ambrose, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Chief Adeline Jonasson to advance work on an area of interest totalling 33,525 sq. km.. See article # 74.
Provincial government site providing links to programs and services, publications and documentations, claims and demands under heading Relations to Aboriginal peoples.
Links to agreements with individual First Nations, transboundary agreements, First Nations without land claims agreements, and the Understanding the Yukon Umbrella Final Agreement (The Green Book).
Website provides learning materials about the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia before the province was created. Contains links to complete collection of correspondence from 1846 to 1871. One section of teacher material deals with question "Were the Douglas Treaties and the Numbered Treaties Fairly Negotiated?"
Briefly defines rights, explains rights of Status and Non-Status Indians and Métis people, and discusses conservation, public and safety rules, and where to get help if charged with a harvesting offence. Information specific to British Columbia.
Third edition.
Developed to assist British Columbia First Nations with agreement-in-principle (AIP) approvals and ratification votes as part of the treaty negotiation process.
United States Government Accountability Office Report to Congressional Requesters
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
United States Government Accountability Office
Description
Reports results of surveys conducted with tribal and urban law enforcement agencies about investigations conducted 2014-2016, and victim service providers.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 4, Fall, 2017, pp. 299-335
Description
Traces women's political activities from the 1950s through the 1970s to the Splatsín te Secwépemc child welfare bylaw and Indian Child Caravan in 1980.
Canadian Bar Review, vol. 74, no. 2, June 1995, pp. 187-224
Description
Discusses inclusions in a Self-Government Agreement referring to the Yukon First Nation Self-Government Agreement, personal and territorial jurisdictions, concurrent and exclusive powers and connections between Aboriginal, federal and provincial laws..
Looks at institutional arrangements created by the Agreement and how they affect harvesting rights, management of wildlife and habitat, wildlife research, and assessment of environmental impacts of development. Gives special attention to wildlife co-management mechanisms which represent interests of both government and the Inuvialuit.
Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law, vol. 2, no. 1, April 1995
Description
Looks at the Aboriginal Communities Act and the extent to which it meets the requirements of self-government contained in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Report prepared for Insight Information's conference Aboriginal Oil and Gas: Preparing and Planning for the Next Wave of Resource Development Projects, April 24-25, 2006, Edmonton, Alberta. With additional comments on:
Haida Nation v. British Columbia and Taku River Tlingit First Nation v. British Columbia
Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, vol. 100, Special Supplement, 2006, pp. 877-880
Description
Discusses the impact of Public Law 93-638 on the IHS (Indian Health Services) delivery of eye care, deficiencies in the system and recommendations for improvement.
Saskatchewan Law Review, vol. 69, no. 1, 2006, pp. 251-267
Description
Discusses the U.S. doctrine which states that when a reservation is created, water is reserved to satisfy the needs of the reservation, and the ramifications if Canada adopts a similar policy.
Looks at Native-newcomer relations in BC through various meetings and delegations of Aboriginal elders to the British Crown.
Chapter from Majesty in Canada: Essays on the Role of Royalty edited by Colin MacMillan Coates.
Find page 68 to read chapter.
Looks at the high rates of incarceration of Indigenous Australians and the economic and social costs of imprisonment, advocates for a holistic approach to reduce over-representation in the criminal justice system, and discusses possible initiatives and their cost.
Topics covered are: characteristics of traditions, examples of law (Hodinohso:ni, Anishinabek, Cree, Métis, Carrier, Nisga’a, Inuit, Mi'kmaq), multi-juridical legal culture, challenges and opportunities in recognizing Indigenous traditions, and entrenching multi-juridicalism in Canada.
Amnesty International’s Submissions to Part II of the Ipperwash Inquiry
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Amnesty International Canada
Description
Presentation given on behalf of Amnesty International Canada at the Ipperwash Inquiry into the September 6, 1995 Ontario Provincial Police shooting of Dudley George.
Literary works discussed: Ceremony by Lesley Marmon Silko, In Search of April Raintree by Beatrice Culleton Mosionier, The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich, and The Last Standing Woman by Winona LaDuke.
Commission came about due to numerous allegations of police misconduct towards Indigenous women in Val d'Or, Quebec. Its mandate is to investigate causes of systemic discrimination in the provision of police, correctional, justice, health and social services.