Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 7, July 2011, p. 9
Description
Discusses the donors responsible for raising money to build a community center which will house, among other things, a grocery store, Kids First program and a multi-purpose room.
Article located by scrolling to page 9.
TESL Canada Journal, vol. 28, Special Issue 5, Summer, 2011, pp. 53-71
Description
Explores three interrelated ethical issues: current spoken dialect and ancestral language, implications for classroom, and issues for researchers working in Aboriginal fields.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 43, no. 3, Fall, 2009, pp. 101-123, 245
Description
Discusses the Conservative and Liberal views of politicians regarding the federal Indian education policy, the administration of industrial schools, and the terrible conditions in the schools causing high mortality rates.
Looks at issues in the context of remote locations as expressed by the women living there. Concludes with recommendations in the areas of health and social services, education, politics and leadership, justice and culture.
Author speaks about his new book The Economic Dependency Trap including the dependency First Nations people have on the federal government.
Duration: 14:54.
Part II.
Part III.
Continuation of talk with author about his new book The Economic Dependency Trap including the dependency First Nations people have on the federal government.
Duration: 13:08.
Part I.
Part III.
Continuation of talk with author about his new book The Economic Dependency Trap including the dependency First Nations people have on the federal government.
Duration: 12:38.
Part I.
Part II.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 9, October 2011, p. 23
Description
Looks at the successful bear and deer camp operation, Saskatchewan Adrenaline Outfitters, located northeast of Green Lake, Saskatchewan.
Article located by scrolling to page 23.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 10, November 2011, p. 1,6
Description
Comments on a First Nations woman elected to the Legislative Assembly and the many attributes that she brings to the government and the people of Saskatchewan.
Article located on page 1 and by scrolling to page 6.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 11, December 2011, p. 10
Description
Comments on various activities in the Native Studies Department at the University of Saskatchewan, including a possible name change.
Article located by scrolling to page 10.
Expands on a previously published research brief.
Outlines three areas in which the interests and goals of government and Aboriginals may differ: scope of injustices, government's attempt to draw a line through the past and legitimate current policies, and government's use of the process as an attempt to assert authority.
Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs.
Description
Paper discusses fur trade issues including: trap research, standards development, trapper education and trap replacement, all in an attemp to ensure that Canadian wild fur products will continue to have access to the European Market.
Reproduction is a copy of an official work that is published by the Government of Canada and it is reproduced in affiliation with, or with the endorsement of the Government of Canada.
Contends that worldwide Indigenous peoples are gaining recognition and status and that the Canadian government has an important role to play in helping its Indigenous population preserve their culture and gain similar success.
Chronicles significant developments in the relationship between the Federal government and First Peoples.
Chapter from Visions of the Heart: Canadian Aboriginal Issues (3rd ed.) edited by Olive Patricia Dickason and David Long.
Part IV: International Repatriation and Protection of Cultural Property
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David A. Walden
University of British Columbia Law Review, Special Issue: Material Culture in Flux: Law and Policy of Repatriation of Cultural Property, 1995, pp. [203]-216
Description
Discusses five features of the Act: the establishment of a Export Control List, provision for loans and grants to institutions to purchase items that cannot be exported, establishment of a review board dealing with applications for export permits and certification of property for income tax purposes, establish income tax incentives for donation or sales of objects to designated institutions, and procedures for recovery of property which has been illegally exported.
SA-eDUC Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, Special Edition on Education and Ethnicity, November 2009, pp. 100-116
Description
Supports the need to understand First Nations history from an Aboriginal perspective and the effects the Indian Act and residential school systems had on First Nations people in Canada.
Occasional Paper (Centre for Military and Strategic Studies) ; no. 4
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
P. Whitney Lackenbauer
Calgary Papers in Military and Strategic Studies, vol. 4, Canadian Arctic Sovereignty and Security: Historical Perspectives , 2011, pp. 345-381
Description
Looks at the Canadian Rangers, developed as part of the armed forces northern strategy to be the eyes and ears of the Canadian Forces Northern Area (CFNA) in isolated areas.
Argues that Treaty-making has conformed to a uni-dimensional pattern of avoidance and inaction, but suggests recent Supreme Court of Canada cases will increase pressure on the Crown to live up to its promises.
The International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 2, no. 3, Truth and Reconciliation, August 30, 2011, pp. 1-18
Description
Reviews the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in terms of a legal settlement agreement, and discusses the challenges that arise from a societal decision to create such a process to deal with past history.