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Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act: Consequences of the Corporate Structure in Establishing the Land Claims of Native Alaskans
Alexis First Nation, TransAlta Utilities - Right of Way, Public Edition
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains statements of claim, correspondence/letters, maps and transcripts in regards to Calgary Power's (now TransAlta) access to electrical transmission right of way granted in the 1950s and 1960s. The Commissioners include: Roger J. Augustine, Daniel J. Bellegarde, Sheila G. Purdy.
The Benefits of Being Indian: Blood Quanta, Intermarriage, and Allotment Policy on the White Earth Reservation, 1889–1920
Bibliography: Who Owns Native Culture?
Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge and Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Blood Tribe/Kainaiwa Inquiry: Akers Surrender 1889 Claim, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains letters/memos, submissions, band council documents, and reports in regards to the dispute over the federal government taking over 440 acres of mineral-rich reserve land without full consent or compensation.
Carry The Kettle - 1905 Surrender - Public Edition, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contains historical documents, reports, legal submissions, correspondence/letters, transcripts, and maps regarding the specific land claim, concerning the surrender of reserve land, by Carry the Kettle First Nation. Commissioners include : Sheila Purdy, Alan Holman, and Jane Dickson-Gilmore. [These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]
Common Law Origins of Aboriginal Entitlements to Land
Damming the Bighorn: Indian Reserved Water Rights on the Crow Reservation, 1900-2000
Esketemc First Nation: Wright's Meadow Pre-Emption Inquiry
Finding Solutions for the Legislative Gaps in Determining Rights to the Family Home on Colonially Defined Indigenous Lands
Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity
Indigenous Peoples and Real Estate Valuation
The Indigenous World 2008
Intellectual and Cultural Property Rights of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Asia
Intellectual Property and Aboriginal Peoples: Conflict or Compromise?
Discusses rights to traditional culture including skills, arts, beliefs, and knowledge of the environment and makes suggestions on approaches to the property debate.
Related Material: Fact Sheet.
International Law, Plant Biodiversity and the Protection of Indigenous Knowledge: An Examination of Intellectual Property Rights in Relation to Traditional Medicine
International Trade, Intellectual Property Rights and Traditional Knowledge: The Case of Plant Genetic Resources
Land Rights NOT Mining Rights: Free Bob Lovelace and the KI 6
Listening to the Land: Land: Native American Literary Responses to the Landscape
The Lost Promise of Mabo: An Update on the Legal Struggle for Land Rights in Australia with Particular Reference to the Ward and Yorta Yorta Decision
Matrimonial Real Property Solutions
Museum, Kitigan Zibi in Tug of War Over Remains
Relates the First Nations band, Kitigan Zibi Anishnabeg, fight against the Canadian Museum of Civilization for human bones found within their traditional Algonquin territory.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.24.
A Narrative Description of Contemporary Negotiations Between the Canadian Pacific Railway and Five Indian Bands Regarding Land Taxation and Land Tenure Rights in British Columbia
Neskonlith, Adams Lake, and Little Shuswap Indian Bands Neskonlith Douglas Reserve Inquiry
No Means No: Ermineskin's Resistance to Land Surrender, 1902-1921
Recapturing the History and Rights of First Nations Peoples of British Columbia: A Political Analysis of Past and Present Relationships with the Dominion of Canada
A Road Runs Through It: Aboriginal Citizenship at the Edge of Urban
The Selling of California: The Indian Claims Commission and the Case of the Indians of California v. the United States
Six Miles Deep: Land Rights of the Six Nations of the Grand River
Teacher Guide for High School for Use with the Educational DVD Contemporary Voices along the Lewis & Clark Trail
Film explores Tribal members' perspectives on traditional knowledge, history, the impact of early contact and westward expansion, the importance of language, and cultural continuity.
Three Strikes But Not Out: Judicial Losses and Women's Political Activism Ahead of the Charter
[To Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Premier of the Dominion of Canada: From the Chiefs of the Shuswap, Okanagan and Couteau Tribes of British Columbia, Presented at Kamloops, B.C. August 25, 1910]
Text of letter protesting the misappropriation of land, failure to create treaties, and the policies of the B.C. government. Site also includes information on laws and customs, historical and political context, and timeline from 1763 to 2009.