Proceedings of the 61st Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute
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Author/Creator
Robin M. Junger
Description
Discussion of the ramifications of the Supreme Court of Canada's decision in Tsilhqot’in Nation v. British Columbia.
Chapter 17A from Proceedings of the 61st Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute published by the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation.
The Supreme Court Law Review, vol. 71, no. 1, 2015, pp. [67]-89
Description
Looks at changes to inherent limit and extension resulting from the Tsilhqot'in Nation v. British Columbia case. Focuses on changes to provincial jurisdiction over Aboriginal titled lands and land use.
Chapter in book: Contemporary Tendencies in Mediation edited by Humberto Dalla Bernardina de Pinho, Juliana Loss de Andrade.
Looks at the use of mediation in reconciliation of lands and resources.
Scroll down to page 67 for chapter.
Families First: A Manitoba Indigenous Approach to Addressing the Issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Joëlle Pastora Sala
Byron Williams]
Description
Highlights documents produced by the Organization of American States, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, United Nations and the UN Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Part of Families First: A Manitoba Indigenous Approach to Addressing the Issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
English Practice, vol. 57, no. 1, Starting a Circle: Exploring Aboriginal Education, Fall, 2015, pp. 24-[27]
Description
Looks at how the Residential School Apology, the Idle No More movement, and other current events impact teaching practices.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 24.
IK: Other Ways of Knowing, vol. 1, no. 2, 2015, pp. 1-31
Description
Looks at the success or failure of laws and policies that were meant to protect community rights, culture, and material resources and the use of community protocols as tools.
Climate and Development, vol. 7, no. 5, 2015, pp. 401-413
Description
Study by researchers and the Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) reports on effects of climate change on hunting and fishing and delivery of supplies in community.
Transmotion, vol. 1, no. 2, November 20, 2015, pp. 1-25
Description
Author uses the frameworks created in Vizenor’s two 2006 poetry collections to discuss Anishinaabe concepts of belonging and citizenship separate from colonial discourses and dichotomies.
[The Tsilhqot’in Decision and Canada’s First Nations Termination Policies, pt. 1]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Russell Diabo
Shiri Pasternak
Description
Brief discussion of Canada's Comprehensive Land Claims policy in response to the Supreme Court of Canada's landmark decision in the case Tsilhqot'in v. British Columbia.
Refers to specific articles in the International Covenant on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), outlines concerns about Canada's implementation, and makes recommendations.
International Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 51, September 2015, pp. 27-56
Description
Argues there isn't a clear idea of what truth and reconciliation should mean to the residential school survivors and Aboriginal people in general. Includes articles from the Aboriginal Healing Foundation report From Truth to Reconciliation: Transforming the Legacy of Residential Schools.
Gender Equality in the Arctic: Current Realities, Future Challenges, Akureyri, Iceland, October 30-31, 2014
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Embla Eir Oddsdóttir
Már Siguròsson
Sólrún Svandal
Description
Conference highlighted the importance of diversity in gender, social realities, education, economics and cooperation between public and private sectors and living conditions of men and women in the Circumpolar North.
The Supreme Court Law Review, vol. 71, no. 1, 2015, pp. [45]-66
Description
Explains characteristics of Aboriginal Title: collective right, pluralistic, jurisdictional dimension, inalienable, inherent limit, and flows from a special historical relationship between the Crown and Aboriginal people.
Paper originally presented at the National Claims Research Workshop, October 7, 2002. Overview of law in Canada surrounding duty to consult and Walpole Island First Nation's experiences with accommodation of rights.
The American Indian Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 3, Summer, 2015, pp. 243-270
Description
Article investigates how the forces of United States government and corporate interests worked together to entrench imperialist social relations and conditions. Refers to both the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Occupy Oakland movement.
Luminary, no. 6, Visualizing Fantastika, Summer, 2015, p. [?]
Description
Looks at a superhero team storyline set in Northern Ontario which underscores how the characters can provide real-life negotiations of American, Canadian and Indigenous identity.