Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC)
Description
Discusses several strategies: improve the economic and social well-being of Aboriginal people, develop healthier, more self-sufficient communities, and participate in Canada’s political, social and economic development.
The Supreme Court Law Review, vol. 71, no. 1, 2015, pp. [67]-89
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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.
Issues in Social and Environmental Accounting , vol. 9, no. 2, 2015, pp. 117-145
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Examines the relationship which has developed with federal government departments as part of program devolution, and argues that because procedures are based on Western practices and worldviews, it undermines the concept of nation-to-nation relationship.
Includes case studies of the Community Council Project, Aboriginal Legal Services Toronto and the Hollow Water First Nation's Community Holistic Circle Healing Project.
Focuses on integrated resource management throughout comprehensive claim territories in the Arctic and Subarctic, with special attention on the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement and the Inuvialuit Final Agreement.
Elders discuss concerns regarding: loss of Indian culture and traditions; failure to educate young Indians in traditionalways; young well-educated chiefs who will not take advice from elders.
Elders speak of their concerns regarding leadership on the reserves; new young leaders with education but no experience who ignore the elders and their advice; the failure to educate the young in traditional Indian ways.
Ethnopolitics, vol. 14, no. 1, January 2015, pp. 32-51
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In spite of similar political systems between the two countries, considerable differences were found between the two Sami parliaments regarding legal basis, authority, mandates, electoral system, influence and autonomy.
Canadian Journal of Economics, vol. 29, Special Issue, April 1996, pp. 619-621
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Focuses on two approaches to Aboriginal property rights and governance rights; conclusions are similar in relation to property and diverge regarding governance.
Journal of Genocide Research, vol. 17, no. 4, Special issue on Canada and Colonial Genocide, 2015, pp. 473-493
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Looks at three periods of reconciliation: Section 37 Constitutional Talks, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, restitution for Indian Residential School Survivors.
Concludes that four problems must be addressed: level of commitment to self-government by other governments, clear policy and process to achieve recognition for the purpose of negotiations, issues related to funding and other resources, and the need for mechanisms for longer term relations.
Includes study covering period from 2005 to Health Canada's finalization of the transfer of control to the First Nations Health Authority in 2013 as well as selected aspects of the Authority's accountability and governance framework between 2013 and 2015 in response to allegations against the Authority.
Journal of Genocide Research, vol. 17, no. 4, Special Issue on Canadian and Colonial Genocide, 2015, pp. 391-409
Description
Looks at the theory of refusal in Mohawk Interruptus by Audra Simpson and details of the changes on the northern plains in late nineteenth century in Clearing the Plains by James Daschuk and Metis and the Medicine Line by Michel Hogue.
Explains that the Grand Council of the Crees of Quebec wished to stay in Canada in the event that Quebec seperated from Canada and questions how the Quebecers could deny the First Nations the very thing that they insist is theirs, self-determination.