Land Claims

Religious Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 2012.

Website links to natural resources, history and culture, social equity, environmental justice and GIS mapping. Includes case studies comparing the environmental, social and cultural impact of natural resource development.

Comments on some of the key challenges for northerners and their governments.

File contains an article from the Globe and Mail involving the Indian Brotherhood of the Northwest Territories' claim on the western portion of the North West Territories.

Presents a review of succcessful negotiations on land claims and self-government agreements, in Canada, to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations.

Abstract: The territorial aspirations and achievements of Aboriginal minorities in the common-law jurisdictions of North America, Australia and New Zealand can be divided according to three varieties of political-legal situations; those in areas of initiation, enhancement and omission. In the first of these, to which attention is here confined, there has been no legally defined and protected land-base, and Aboriginal land claims are or have been the subject of recent litigation, negotiation and settlement.

Book review of: Arguments About Aborigines by L. R. Hiatt. Review located by scrolling to page 280.

Clarifies the purposes of reservations and raises issues in relation to water rights and usage by reservations on the Gila River system.

Book review of: 'As Their Natural Resources Fail' by Frank Tough.

Environment and Sustainability Thesis (MES)--University of Saskatchewan, 2015.

Addresses important issues facing Nunavut and educational reform focusing on jurisdictional control, curriculum & research, improving access/increasing integration and sustainability/capacity building.

Treaty 4 bands deliver a deadline to the government to honour the 1976/77 Saskatchewan Formula Agreement on land entitlement.

Address to the Rotary Club, Yellowknife, NWT by the Indian Claims Commissioner of Canada. Abstract: "The author believes that the claims of the indigenous people of the Northwest Territories as to ownership of resources and a right to direct participation in resource development, together with a high degree of political autonomy within the larger Canadian society, are just and well-founded. Given control of resources, the indigenous peoples are fully able to cope with the responsibilities that go with large resources and with autonomy..."

Website includes resources, information, publications and reports on issues that are integral to modern treaty making in British Columbia. Includes Aboriginal rights, self government, land and resources, fishing, forestry and financial.

Author offers a critical perspective on the perspectives in discussion papers being released by municipal government agencies in response to reserves being created within and adjacent to urban centers; argues that many of the perspective within these documents reinforce settler colonialism and ignore Indigenous sovereignty.

Looks at a woman's life story documented for her family but also for land claiming purposes.

Looks at Aboriginal forest based activities for economic development on and off the reserve. Opportunities are identified by the National Aboriginal Forestry Association.

Project reflects on over 250 publicly-known benefit agreements from the northern regions of Canada.

History Thesis (M.A.)--Dalhousie University, 2002.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia, 1984.

Book review of: Beyond Conquest: Native Peoples and the Struggle for History in New England by Amy E. Den Ouden.

Interview with a political activist who was behind the barricades at Kanesatake.

Showcases three keynote speakers discuss issues connecting teaching and learning in an anti-colonial framework. Showcases a film, dance, and drama by students. Duration: 2:49:36.

Discusses report by Thomas Berger, The Nunavut Project, which was used as the foundation for the Education Act of 2008.

Discusses the potential for cultural reclamation and renewal by the Blackfeet due to the parks natural state. Suggests co-management of parklands in the future.

Argues that the land surrender and damage claims entailed by railway construction reduced the Tsimshian to a position of economic dependency and subordination.

Book review of: Parallel Paths: Fiduciary Doctrine and the Crown-Native Relationship in Canada by Leonard Ian Rotman.

Book review of: The Resettlement of British Columbia: Essay on Colonialism and Geographical Change by Cole Harris.

Book review of: Indigenous Legal Issues by Heather McRae, Garth Nettheim and Laura Beacroft

Book reviews of: The Real World of Canadian Politics: Cases in Process and Policy edited by Robert M. Campbell, Leslie A. Pal, and Michael Hewlett. Reinventing Canada: Politics of the 21st Century edited by Janine Brodie and Linda Trimble. Canadian Politics edited by James Bikerton and Alain-G. Gagnon.

Book reviews of 23 books: The Forces Which Shaped Them: A History of the Education of Minority Group Children in British Columbia by Mary Ashworth. Forty Years a Chief by George Barker. A History of Native Claims Processes in Canada, 1867-1979 by Richard C. Daniel. The Metaphysics of Modern Existence by Vine Deloria The Covenant Chain: Indian Ceremonial and Indian Trade Silver by N.

Book reviews of 18 books: Before the Country: Native Renaissance, Canadian Mythology by Stephanie McKenzie. Beyond Red Power: American Indian Politics and Activism Since 1900 edited by Daniel M. Cobb and Loretta Fowler. The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand: Roanoke's Forgotten Indians by Michale Leroy Oberg. How Choctaws Invented Civilization and Why Choctaws Will Conquer the World by D. L. Birchfield. I Swallow Turquoise For Courage: Poems by Hershman R. John. Long Journey Home: Oral Histories of Contemporary Delaware Indians edited by James W.

Discusses topics of general laws, case laws, treaties, self-government, fiduciary obligations, and Aboriginal rights.

Discusses how the treaty process has successfully evolved through a series of institutional changes which include the development of effective working relationships between Canada, British Columbia and the First Nations Summit.

Looks at conflicts over land owned by the Haudenosaunee and the backgrounds of John Brant and Robert Johnson Keer as negotiators for the Grand River Six Nations.

Asks for help for the Masssai and Samuru pastoralists.

Looks at the Inuit vision of creating a 'public' government, structured and operated according to Inuit ways and values.

Discussion on the development of the Federal Framework for Aboriginal Economic Development; recent Federal measures including the Northern Strategy; a series of agreements between government and Aboriginal communities, including self-government and Comprehensive Land Claims Agreements; and examines how they can play a central role in strengthening the northern economy.

Book review of: The Burden of History: Colonialism and the Frontier Myth in a Rural Canadian Community by Elizabeth Furniss.

Discusses how British Columbia businesses are developing working relationships with First Nations and positioning themselves as leaders in British Columbia’s changing economic climate.

Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 1989.

File contains samples of Red River Rebellion Military Bounty Land Warrants, North West Mounted Police Warrants, North-West Rebellion Military Bounty Warrants and Land Certificates, and Metis Scrip Certificates.

Links to information on treaties, laws, and events from the first contact to 2003.

Prepared as part of research program of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples