Law & Justice

Looks at the responses of the Commonwealth Government to the demands for reparations and recommendations of the National Inquiry.

Folder contains newspaper clippings relating to trade with Indigenous persons near Moose Jaw in 1884, Indigenous weddings,agriculture, and the death of Chief Whitecap.

Discusses strategies employed by the Chief in an effort to influence Canadian Indian Policy and ensure his peoples' livelihood during a time of rapid social and political change

Article examines the challenges of discrimination and the exclusion of Aboriginal views from mainstream Australian society.

Overview of the summer Program of Legal Studies for Native People and the goals and future of the Native Law Centre at the University of Saskatchewan, including funding issues.

[History and Native American Studies] Thesis (M.A.)--University of Georgia, 2012.

Looks at the Residential School Settlement and the development of the legal system when dealing with mass harms.

Brief discussion of how overrepresentation in the system contributes to the number of missing and murdered Indigenous women.

Focuses on seven of the fourteen research topics: general demographics; poverty and social services; the emerging middle class; the two-spirited community; law and justice; racism; and the arts. Chapter from Well-being in the Urban Aboriginal Community: Fostering Biimaadiziwin edited by David Newhouse, Kevin FitzMaurice, Tricia McGuire-Adams, and Daniel Jetté. Originally presented at the 2011 National Research Conference on Urban Aboriginal Peoples.

Looks at community-building and governance initiatives such as the city of Toronto's Statement of Commitment to Aboriginal Communities, Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto, Anishnawbe Health Toronto, and Native Child and Family Services of Toronto. Excerpt from Well-Being in the Urban Aboriginal Community: Fostering Biimaadiziwin edited by David Newhouse, Kevin FitzMaurice, Tricia McGuire-Adams, and Daniel Jetté. Originally presented at the 2011 National Research Conference on Urban Aboriginal Peoples.

Study involved front-line service providers and clients of centre located in the Halifax Regional Municipality in a series of focus groups, sharing circles and pathway building exercises. Themes discusses were: Indigenous traditional knowledge and wellness, cultural healing and service provision; encounters with criminal justice and mental health systems; and promising practices to support reintegration of families.

Provides an overview of law and social issues related to real property on-reserve when marital breakdown has occurred.

Looks at judicial case reports and Evidence Acts dealing with the claims on aboriginal rights.

Findings indication two important factors are the amount of contact with white culture and the affluence of the reservation.

Intended for service staff working with First Nations, Métis and Inuit women. Provides basic information on law, legal issues, processes and relevant options.

Workbook and resource guide provides examples, narratives and discussion questions to target law services for the community.

Looks at settler colonialism and the 1850 Act for the Government and Protections of Indians paving the way for victimization and criminalization of American Native women.

See: Chapter A-2 "COVID-19 and First Nations' Responses" by Aimée Craft, Deborah McGregor, and Jeffery Hewit. Chapter D-6 "Systemic Discrimination in Government Services and Programs and Its Impact on First Nations Peoples During the COVID-19 Pandemic" by Anne Levesque and Sophie Theriault.

Looks at ways to heal from colonization. Excerpt from the book Indigenous Healing: Exploring Traditional Paths by Rupert Ross.

Book review of Recovering Canada: The Resurgence of Indigenous Law by John Borrows.

Comments on the development of water management plans as called for by Alberta's Water Act

Article analyzes the existence and nature of Aboriginal water rights, and argues that Aboriginals should be fully involved as the government of Alberta reviews water management policies.

Discusses the legal and political fights for water in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian community, and the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, and looks at the impact of water-rights in those communities.

The meaning of the settlement claims of the James Bay Cree and the Inuit of Northern Quebec.

Disaggregated data from the 2020 Indigenous Futures Survey regarding identity, health and wellbeing, culture and community, and visibility, justice and dismantling racism.

Looks at Lakota resistance to reservation life.

Brief interview with Marcial Fabricano, President of the Coordinating Body of Indigenous Peoples of Eastern Bolivia, CIDOB. To access this article, scroll down to page 34.

"Presented at 8th Annual Fur Trade Conference, Akwesasne, 2000."

Comments on the power of Native American voices in the 1930s. Presented at the Tenth Native American Symposium, November 14-15, 2013. Chapter from Native Ground: Protecting and Preserving History, Culture, and Customs edited by Mark B. Spencer.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2009.

Comments on the Australian Federal Government's inaction in relation to the provision of compensation to the Stolen Generations.

Explores the intersection of political, legal and economic aspects in the context on Aboriginal-Crown relations.

Discusses the study of Chitimacha basketry.

Discusses the implications of the signing of the Nisga'a Final Agreement in August of 1998.

Law Thesis (LLM)--University of Alberta, 2009.

Psychology Thesis (M.A.)--Massey University, 2016.

Basis of land claims in common law and International law.

Argues that women are particularly susceptible to negative performance factors at the graduate and professional levels of university training, this is a comment on some of the concerns.

Looks at Canadian laws surrounding traditional knowledge data collection and issues that should be sorted out before a project is started.

Comments on the issue of Indigenous people experiencing harm while trying to access services in health care, justice, child and family services and education.

Examines "residential school abuse" from the perspective of cultural abuse.

Looks at several trademark laws and their application to companies using Native American names to sell non-Native products.

Looks at the dualism of comtemporary law and politics in the relationship between Aboriginal peoples and the Crown.