Law & Justice

Committee consulted with service providers, stakeholders, justice system personnel, judiciary and clients for the review.

Church facing bankruptcy due to legal fees and residential school settlements.

NDP MP for Winnipeg-Transcona comments on statement about the consequences of residential schools lawsuits.

Looks at various socially and culturally constructed categories of discrimination and demonstrates the need for courts to employ multidimensionality theory in cases of complex oppression.

Discusses the fiduciary obligations that exist for municiplaities in regards to First Nations reserves.

Examines how racism influences environmental policy in relation to housing, employment and law enforcement.

Comments on the fourteen award recipients and the work they have done in their communities. Article found by scrolling to page 13.

Explores involvement with the Nagoya Protocol which governs access to genetic resources and the equitable sharing of the benefits.

Delves into the character of Ama, from Linda Hogan's novel, Power. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.

Presentation by the Director of Women's Studies Program, Southern Connecticut State University and Fenmei Niahosa, Indigenous human rights activist, singer and performer at the Global Solidarity Symposium, State University of New York, November 7, 2016. Duration: 56:29.

Book review of: A Narrow Vision by E. Brian Titley.

Looks at the question of identity as a challenge to nation building for Aboriginal people.

Provides links to services, resources such as the publication library, and news and events.

File contains a series of negatives from a ceremony installing Ovide Mercredi as an honorary prisoner at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary in Prince Albert, SK. The negatives contain pictures of Mercredi (National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations 1991-1997) receiving a certificate from unidentified (Penitentiary?) officials.

Dialogue is guided by Resolution 17-2010 (Principles for an Exploratory Process on First Nations Citizenship)

"Public law library devoted to federal Indian and tribal law."

Critical review of policy problems that have application beyond the United States border and comments on the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

List of 100 items including narrative and documentary films, and adult, young adult, and children's books.

Resource page containing links to federal department documents, census data, Department of Education materials and tribes in Oklahoma.

American Indian Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2017. Looks at novels by Linda Hogan, Tom Holm, Frances Washburn, Louise Erdrich, Louis Owens, and Tony Hillerman, and films by Chris Eyre.

Discusses the ways in which Native American women influence their communities and the larger Euro-American society.

Provides basic information about the structure and system of law of Native Americans and questions if the Navajo have been able to customize the Anglo-American legal system to comply with the traditional Navajo life pattern. Bachelor's Thesis towards undergraduate degree in [English Language and Literature]--University of West Bohemia, 2013.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska, 2010.

Includes Saskatoon City Council minutes from a meeting on Tuesday, September 8, 1981 regarding an invitation by the Saskatoon Legal Assistance Clinic Society for City Council to partake in a conference on Native Child Apprehension on September 9, 10, and 11th in Saskatoon.

Historical information. Information current in 1984. Related Material: Inventory Update.

Updates report published in 1984. Related Material: Original Inventory.

Discusses the history of cultural/historical research related to treaty and claims litigation and its presentation in court.

History Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Manitoba, 2009.

Book review of: Native Liberty by Gerald Vizenor. Scroll to page 133 for article.

This article places the issue of the James Bay Project for the development of hydroelectric power into a historical and political perspective and discusses its effects upon the Aboriginals of Quebec.

Traces the history of the Appeals Commission over the course of 30 years. Case illustrates the difficulties involved when integrating court systems into societies organized by kinship.

Book review of: Native North American edited by Renee Hulan.

Examines issues of native land claims affected by different projects like the Bennett Dame in the Peace-Athabasca Delta area.

Book review of: Native Peoples and Water Rights by Kenichi Matsui.

This bibliography includes materials relating primarily to Canadian Aboriginals in the area of ethnographic, historical and political geography. Specific subjects include ethnography and human ecology; early European contacts, settlers and the fur trade; conflict and control over native peoples; the British Indian Department and the Canadas; and contemporary Indian reserves. Also included are materials from the United States, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, Greenland Inuit and Russian minorities.

Chapter 7 in book: Gender Ironies of Nationalism: Sexing the Nation edited by Tamar Mayer. Discusses customary practices and protection of tribal ceremony. Scroll down to page 163 to read chapter.

Supplemental and alternative material to enhance delivery of Grade 11 curriculum. Can be used in conjunction with Native Studies 20: Student Resource Guide.

Compilation of readings from various sources. Can be used in conjunction with Native Studies 20: Case Studies and Readings Package.

Dispels the myths surrounding Aboriginal title and the effect Aboriginal title will have on the land tenure systems.

Discusses charges of political interference brought by chiefs and band officials against the Aboriginal Women's Unity Coalition for speaking out on violence against women on reserves.

Discussion of meetings regarding the residential school lawsuits, some for sexual abuse other lawsuits were of a more general nature.

Introduction discusses topics from conference, "Natives and Settlers Now and Then" held at the University of Alberta April 17, 2000.

Defines Pimicikamak Okimawin as a body politic and corporate under Canadian municipal law and uses archival research and oral history analysis to address inquiries by the Government of Manitoba.

American Indian Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2007.