Changemakers Lesson Plans: Remote Learning
Lesson plans focus on Native Americans who are fighting invisibility and creating change through their work, contributions from the past, and current actions which will impact the future.
Lesson plans focus on Native Americans who are fighting invisibility and creating change through their work, contributions from the past, and current actions which will impact the future.
Comments on issues of treaty rights and fair revenues from reserve resources, and discusses a contract between Onion Lake Cree Nation and an Asian government to build a refinery on Cree land.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.8.
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contains historical documents, transcripts, correspondence/letters, reports, exhibits, minutes, and submissions regarding the surrender of some of the reserve lands in 1927, 100 years after the treaty was signed. Commissioners include: Roger J. Augstine and Daniel J. Bellegarde.
Discusses the self-government issues of legitimacy, power and resources, by using examples of current agreements. The article breaks the areas down in terms of: basic principles, rights through treaties, federal-provincial division of power, status of lands, legislative powers, and funding.
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USE FIREFOX FOR BEST VIEWING AND FUNCTIONALITY OF THIS RECORD. Consists of historical documents, submissions, correspondence/letters, transcripts, treaties, legal documents and the Final Report in English and French. [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.]
Reports on an investigation by Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, into the deaths of four children in British Columbia which questions the child welfare system.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.5.