Part I: Cultural Protection: The Story of a Saanich Bowl
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patrick Walker
Clarine Ostrove
University of British Columbia Law Review, Special Issue: Material Culture in Flux: Law and Policy of Repatriation of Cultural Property, 1995, pp. [13]-28
Description
Article outlines one possible legal response to the imminent export of a scared object under the Cultural Property Export and Import Act.
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Final, special report examines the legal review of the Athabasca Denesuline claim for formal recognition of treaty harvesting rights north of the 60th parallel. Commissioners were Daniel J. Bellegarde and P.E. James Prentice.
[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.]
Part I: Cultural Protection: The Story of a Saanich Bowl
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Diana Henry
University of British Columbia Law Review, Special Issue: Material Culture in Flux: Law and Policy of Repatriation of Cultural Property, 1995, pp. [5]-11
Description
Member of the Saanich Native Heritage Society describes efforts to prevent the sale of an ancient West Coast Saanich bowl to an American dealer, and to have this cultural property returned to their people.
Looks at the validity of surrender of reserve land and the nature of the duty of the Crown prior to surrender. Supreme Court Reports at page 344 to 409. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Canadian Public Policy, vol. 21, no. 2, June 1995, pp. 187-211
Description
Evaluates the operation of the 'Anunga Rules' in Australia as a key part in a comparison between Canadian and Australian Aboriginal-police relations, policies and practices.
Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 1, February 1995, pp. 48-71
Description
Looks at the United Nations and other international initiatives designed to protect minorities and discusses how they may appear to be in conflict with other human rights efforts aimed at all individuals.
Pacific Historical Review, vol. 64, no. 4, November 1995, pp. 537-566
Description
Argues that resistance occurred for several reasons including that the draft infringed on American Indians' status as non-Citizens, who could not be required to register for service and endangered federal protections of tribal sovereignty resulting in the acceleration toward assimilation, which had been attempted through the allotment process and the liquidation of tribal lands.
Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law, vol. 2, no. 1, April 1995, p. 13
Description
The article discusses the dispute resolution process regarding comprehensive land claims in Canada and the power imbalance that exists between Aboriginal claimants and Euro-Canadian governments. (Part of an Australian Masters' thesis submitted by the author who is a Senior Case Manager for the Australian National Native Title Tribunal)
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 1986, pp. 333-349
Description
Indian reservations were surveyed regarding their consumption of wildlife. Calls for increased joint management efforts between provincial and Indian governments to identify all forces affecting wildlife populations and to create equitable conservation programs.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 1, The History of American Indian Leadership, Winter, 1986, pp. 65-82
Description
Challenges the stereotype of static Indigenous political organization with an investigation of the historical adaptability of Indigenous leadership on the Great Plains.
Child Welfare, vol. 74, no. 1, January-February 1995, pp. 264-82
Description
Discusses the law passed in 1978 as result of actions initiated by the Devils Lake Sioux in collaboration with the Association on American Indian Affairs (AIAA); the objective was to reverse the trend of out-of-home placement, and in particular trans-racial placements.
Provides a mechanism for determining citizenship to preserve cultural and political integrity and outlines three fundamental objectives of the Citizenship Code.
International Journal of Canadian Studies, no. 12, Aboriginal Peoples and Canada, Fall, 1995, pp. [262]-275
Description
Looks at the role space related issues play in land claims and sovereignty. Suggests topics for future research.
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