Land Claims

Brief description of why the Indian Claims Commission was established and what it does. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Brief introduction to the two types of land claims. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Analysis of the provincial Liberal administration's 2002 referendum seeking public decision-making on land claims. Article illustrates use of arguments based in economics used and by way of systemic bias disregarding historical context of issues.

Federal approval given to formula to settle unfulfilled land entitlements in Saskatchewan.

Correspondence relating to the establishment of an Indian Claims Commission, a report from the North American Indian Brotherhood dealing with land claims and an Indian Claims Commission, and more correspondence relating to conditions on reserves in BC.

History Thesis (M.A.)--California State University at Long Beach, 2005.

Summary of 141 recommendations.

Examines the critically complex issue of financing self-government, comparing fiscal difficulties experienced in the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, James Bay and the Inuvialuit in the Northwest Territories (NWT).

Leonie Sandercock answers questions about her film which exposed a dark side of Canada's past history to the present situation of two First Nations communities, Burns Lake Band and the Cheslatta Carrier Nation, in north central British Columbia. Duration: 24:09.

Explores the history, process and implications of the Finnmark Act, a new land management agreement of previously state owned land.

Looks at past administrative arrangements and discusses how negotiations and settlements of land claims agreements affected self-government initiatives and changed aspects of territorial governance.

Author's own list of top 10 worst Canadians and why they are on his list.

70 images (15 scanned here) of First Nations and government officials signing a land treaty agreement in Prince Albert on May 26 1981.

"Meeting on Indigenous Peoples and Indicators of Well-Being, 22-23 March 2006, Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, Ottawa".

Topics include the implications of the Tsilhqot’in and Grassy Narrows decisions, duty to consult, provincial treaty obligations, and proposed federal land claims policy.

Topics include Aboriginal title, treaties, the Métis, duty to consult, and land claims. 3rd edition.

Forestry Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Toronto, 2008.

Negative of a document entitled "The Formal List of Rights" ratified by the Provisional Governing Council of the Metis Nation under Louis Riel on 1 December 1869 in Fort Garry and on 4 December 1869 in Winnipeg. Language and land rights are their major concerns.

Looks at the Berger Inquiry and the perspectives of First Nations communities on building the Mackenzie Valley pipeline. Duration: 47:12.

Summarizes the decisions and practices that underwrites the success of the enterprise.

Focuses on protests over ecological and environmental issues, their relation to land claims, and how they have been framed in mainstream media and public policy.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2012.

Mr. Paulhus is of French descent, not Metis. He is married to a Metis and has lived most of his life in a Metis community in the Duck Lake/Batoche area. He gives his impression of the Riel Rebellion, the causes, the battles and views of Riel and Dumont.

Questions and answers about land claims, treaties, compensation and more.

Explains how to conduct land use research studies that meet the demands of academic requirements and simultaneously respects the Aboriginal communities participating. The article focuses on one specific example, that of the Long Lake First Nation.

Talks about rights as an entitlement not as public charity and the link between land and health.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002.

Book reviews of: From Recognition to Reconciliation by Patrick Macklem, Douglas Sanderson. From Treaty Peoples to Treaty Nation by Greg Poelzer, Ken. S. Coates. Entire review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 150.

Intended for use for secondary school students with film: Full Circle: First Nations, Métis, Inuit Ways of Knowing.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 1964.

An account of Australian stockman's life in two worlds.

Excerpt from Indian History and Claims: A Research Handbook v. 2 by Bennett McCardle.

President of the National Indian Brotherhood (NIB), George Manuel, reviews the James Bay Hydroelectric Project.

Summarizes issues most problematic with territories of the Amazonian Indigenous peoples in the Andean area. To access this article, scroll to page 8.

Examination of the Navajo Nations government, encompassing politics, structure, and institutional context.

Provincial government site providing links to programs and services, publications and documentations, claims and demands under heading Relations to Aboriginal peoples.

Links to agreements with individual First Nations, transboundary agreements, First Nations without land claims agreements, and the Understanding the Yukon Umbrella Final Agreement (The Green Book).

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--[Carleton University], 2015.

Book review of: Governments in Conflict?: Provinces and Indian Nations in Canada edited by J. Anthony Long and Menno Boldt.

Looks at the political scientist's work on the new territory.

Sites provides information to assist non-indigenous people grow relationships with Indigenous people. Includes links and video to topics on Aboriginal Title, residential schools, concepts on colonialism, racism, missing and murdered women, privilege, and allies as well as section on basic terminology.

Framework for assisting with United Nations operational activities and programs at the country level regarding human rights-based and culturally sensitive development for and with indigenous peoples.

Book review of: Haa Aaní, Our Land, Tlingit and Haida Land Rights and Use by Walter R. Goldschmidt and Theodore H. Haas and edited by Thomas F. Thornton.

Looks at differences between homeland, hostland, and migration versus removal, in terms of the Oneidas.

Book review of: He Moved a Mountain by Joan Harper. Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 121.