Indigenous Affairs, no. 1-2, Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples, 2008, pp. 52-59
Description
Examines direct consequences of climate change on Indigenous people and the links between traditional knowledge and practices to natural resources and biological diversity.
Discussion paper outlines five critical policy issues including: mineral tenure system and security of investment; Aboriginal rights and interests related to mining development; regulatory processes for exploration activities on Crown Land; land use planning in Ontario’s Far North; and private rights and interests relating to mining development.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 4, Winter, 2008, pp. 1-23
Description
Discusses the Pequot activist and writer's attempts to subvert the myth of the "Vanishing American", and his unique position as an Indian intellectual in the early 1800s.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.
Discusses recommendations to improve the participation and inclusion of Aboriginal women in policy and decision making processes, and to enhance, promote and foster the social, economic, political, cultural, and personal well being of Aboriginal women.
The Need to Conduct Studies of Swedish Sami Reindeer-Herder Subsistence Behaviours: A Case of Indigenous Resource-Use Rights
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert P. Wheelersburg
Northern Review, no. 28, Spring, 2008, pp. 161-180
Description
Examines the current political situation in Sweden related to efforts to comply with the European Community's International Labour Organization Convention No. 169 Concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries.
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 26, no. 3-4, Indigenous Women in Canada: the Voices of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Women, Winter/Spring, 2008, pp. 39-51
Description
Paper discusses the author's personal journey to self-determination through ceremony and spirituality.
Indian Claims Commission: Neskonlith, Adams Lake, and Little Shuswap Indian Bands Neskonlith Douglas Reserve Inquiry
E-Books
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
Submitted specific claim to the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development arguing that a reserve had been created in 1862 by the British Crown and was later unlawfully reduced. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Arctic, vol. 61, no. 5, Supplement 1, December 2008, pp. 71-85
Description
Looks at the importance of Aboriginal involvement with land-claim boards, and their influence over government decisions affecting the wildlife and environment of traditional aboriginal lands.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 89, no. 2, June 2008, pp. 189-221
Description
Examines the eviction of the Keeseekowenin Ojibway Band from a small reserve within the Riding Mountain National Park boundary in response to local economic development, tourism, and federal administrative priorities.
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 26, no. 3/4, Indigenous Women in Canada: the Voices of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Women, Winter/Spring, 2008, pp. 128-134
Description
Article explores how the relationship between Indigenous peoples and nationalism as well as gender and tradition have has developed in Nunavut, Canada.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 23, no. 1, Spring, 2008, pp. 7-24
Description
Examines civil rights and sovereignty issues. The article argues that interests of anti-racists, local and state governments jealous of tax bases, corporate America and the federal government are converging in a way that even the Supreme Court will not be able to contain.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 1, 2008, pp. 1-19
Description
Argues that treaties are a fourth-world text, both promoting and negating sovereignty. To gain in the courts means the American legal system is recognized and ultimately pronounces decisions that effect the reality of Native Americans.
Canadian Literature, no. 198, Autumn, 2008, pp. 176-178
Description
Book reviews of: The New Buffalo: The Struggle for Aboriginal Post-Secondary Education in Canada by Blair Stonechild and Healing Wounded Hearts by Fyre Jean Graveline.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access reviews, scroll to page 176.
Anglican Journal, vol. 134, no. 3, March 2008, p. 7
Description
Describes how protesters picketed in front of the Anglican Church of Canada's national office, February 8, 2008, demanding that the church investigate the cases of children from the residential school system that went missing or died.
Looks at exhibition held at grunt gallery spanning one year involving four projects; Native Hosts, Wheels, Insurgent Messages and the Words, Trees, Chiapas/In Honor of EXLN .
Scroll down to page 35 to read article.
Looks at the rights of Indigenous customary owners to their coastal lands and traditional fisheries, and examines how the proposed Qoliqoli legislation would impact urban populations.
Describes historical evolution of aboriginal title via provincial and federal policies and the impacts on current political environments.
Indigenous Governance Project towards (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2008?.