Land Claims

Philosophy Thesis (M.A.)--Université de Montréal, 2009.

Book review of: Cross-Currents by Jean Manore.

The April 1995 issue of Crosscurrents, with articles on Leonard Peltier, Canadian-United States uranium land deals, and inmate treatment in Canadian prisons.

Historical note:

Crosscurrents is a journal based in Saskatoon, with offices at 134 Avenue F South.

Assesses cultural harm under international law and human rights authority by looking at recovery in the colonial context, restoration of land-based and water based cultural practices, and regenerating Indigenous nationhood.

Overview of factors causing conflict in a Prairie Potawatomi Band over the past one hundred and thirty years.

A photocopy of Richard C. Daniel's paper, "A History of Native Claims Processes in Canada, 1867-1979," prepared for Research Branch, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, February, 1980. Report mainly outlines numbered treaties of the Canadian North-West after 1871.

Lists ten misconceptions and explains why they are false.

Researches the effect self-government might have on the well-being of Nisga'a people.

Investigates a legal dispute and survey error that was finally corrected, thus allowing Aboriginal fishermen to net suckers at Duck Creek, in Brown County, Wisconsin.

Discussion on cooperative environmental resource management agreements Aboriginal peoples have entered into and the three categories these agreements can be divided into, namely land claims-based agreements, conflict- or crises-based co-management agreements, and multi-stakeholder environmental management agreements.

Law Thesis (LL.M.)--Dalhousie University, 1995

Comments on a claim that covered both land settled by Euro-Canadians and unsettled land. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 6.

Seven photocopied newspaper articles relating to the Dene Declaration passed in 1975. Article subjects include a draft of the Dene Declaration, the Dene Manifesto, and a statement from Chief Frank T'seleie of Fort Good Hope, NWT.

Historical note:

Describes some of the main provisions of the Agreement in Principle focusing on aspects that relate most directly to oil and gas activities. Entire issue on one pdf. Scroll down to page 4 for access.

Examines appeals involving lands and resources to determine whether outcomes changed during the self-determination era.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 1985.

Looks at several different acts including the Aboriginal Evidence Act, and the Land Claims Ordinance. Chapter from Past Law, Present Histories edited by Diane Kirkby. Entire book on one pdf. To locate chapter, scroll to page 39.

Looks at structural changes to the government needed for developing sustainability and shared local control.

Introduction to a special Issue which examines land claims settlements in Canada with an emphasis on long range planning and economic development.

Discusses how the Government of the Northwest Territories will be responsible for the administration and control of public lands and resources.

Argues that more effort is needed to resolve land claims, diamond industry and resource development regulation issues.

Comments on conflicting stories from historians, archaeologists, Indigenous nations, and competing ethnic groups regarding the history of the land.

Looks at several treaties and acts which all contributed to loss of land belonging to the Sioux: Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851; Homestead Act of 1862; Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868; Act of 1877; Allotment Act of 1886; Act of 1889 and Wheeler-Howard Act; Pick-Sloan Flood Control Act of 1944; Indian Land Consolidation Act.

Focuses on the Tainui people's efforts to seek redress for the confiscation of their lands in the mid 1860s.

Book review of: Disposing of Wilderness by Mark David Spence and American Indians and National Parks by Robert H. Keller and Michael F. Turek.

Canadian Studies and Native Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Trent University, 2002.

Consists of an interview with non-Indian employed at the Gabriel Dumont Institute in Regina. At the time of the interview he was writing a book on the history of the Metis nation.

Don Nielson was one of the original organizers of the Metis Association of Saskatchewan in 1964. He talks about the differences between Metis groups in the north and south and Norris's fight against government funding.

One of the original organizers of the Metis Association of Saskatchewan in 1964 discusses problems within native organizations between north and south, status and non-status, Liberal and CCF.

File contains correspondence regarding the sale of land and a scrip land transfer in the File Hills/Fort Qu'Appelle area of the North-West Territories of Canada, Saskatchewan district. Involved in these transactions were Lazare Laliberte, Thomas G. Morrison, William Hall, John Leader, and Thomas W. Jackson. Also in the file is a copy of a letter of resignation from File Hills Indian Agency clerk T. P. Godfrey, who accused Inspector W. M. Graham of improper handling of agency funds and suspicious booking keeping practices.

Book review of: Eagle Down is Our Law by Antonia Mills and Doing Things the Right Way by Joan Ryan.

Brief chronology with dates and a short description of historical events regarding land claims in Canada. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Book review of: Earth Beings by Marisol De la Cadena.

Environmental Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oregon, 2009.

Looks at three periods of reconciliation: Section 37 Constitutional Talks, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, restitution for Indian Residential School Survivors.

Describes Dewdney’s policies and action while acting as the Indian Commissioner for the North-West Territories under Sir John A. Macdonald’s government. Entire issue on one .pdf, scroll to p.13.

Tells the story of the Papaschase Cree Indian Reserve Number 136. Includes photos of Frank Oliver, editor of the Bulletin, his home, Betsy Brass, and a historical map of the reserve.

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 1988.

Comments on the lack of improvement in housing, education, and health since the creation of Nunavut and the signing of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement.

Discusses effects the creation of Lake Hannington Games Reserve has had on traditional culture and religious lifestyle of the Endorois people living by Lake Bogoria. To access this article, scroll down to page 47.

Comments on how the Kitsumkalum people regulate and limit salmon fishing.

Discusses political activism that was taking place in Alaska starting in the mid-1960s.

Looks at the use of ethnobotany as a political statement.

Author discusses testimony he has given in treaty rights harvesting cases and land claims cases he has testified for and the outcomes.

Examines the study of ethnographic cultures and Indigenous customs as it developed in the American Indian communities in the era of the Indian Claims Commission.

Describes results of research commissioned by the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians (FSI) on improper land surrenders taken by government officials.