Ontario Federation of Indian Friendship Centres (OFIFC)
Description
Looks at a social justice policy wheel: east (resist), south (reclaim), west (construct) and north (act) and cultural teachings of life cycle responsibilities.
Vancouver Island Pre-Confederation Treaties Conference, 2012
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
John Lutz
Cole Harris
Raymond Frogner
Louise Mandell
Description
Speakers discuss: ambiguity in both oral accounts and written versions of the Douglas Treaties; litigation arising from treaties; archival treatment of colonial documents pertaining to the treaties and the bound register; contradictory views about the issue of treaty annuities versus lump sum payments.
Followed by question and answer period.
Duration: 2:01:00.
Pimatisiwin, vol. 2, no. 1, Spring, 2004, pp. 59-76
Description
Relates the events leading to the forced relocation of the residents of Island Cache in Prince George B.C. in the early 1970s and how community research needs to be ethical.
Copies of pages in the Register of Land Purchases from Indians and additional pages recording other agreements made by the Hudson's Bay Company in Nanaimo and Fort Rupert, which were also known as the Douglas treaties.
Literature search included academic publications, research reports, publications by Inuit organizations, government legislation, working papers and conference presentations between 1991 and 2012.
Division of Educational Opportunity and Equity, Montana Office of Public Instruction
Description
Brief overview of Native Americans in Montana including a chronology of important events and dates and information on the contemporary status of Indians in Montana.
Provides resource for defence counsel that needs a legal aid referral where an Aboriginal right is used as a defence. Looks at treaty rights, Gladue rights, restorative justice etc. Information provided not for legal advice.