Rights

Comments on aboriginal rights and child welfare law.

Looks at when to apply duty to consult to address encroachment on Aboriginal rights, title and Treaty rights. Comments on Louis v. British Columbia (Minister of Energy, Mines, and Petroleum Resources, 2013.

Book review of: The Comeback: How Aboriginals Are Reclaiming Power and Influence by John Ralston Saul.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska, 2010. Based on viewpoints of Napoleon Bonaparte Johnson, Helen Peterson, Oliver La Farge, and Hugh Butler.

Discusses the following identified topics: recognition/certainty, constitutional status of lands, governance, co-management throughout traditional territories, fiscal relations, and fisheries.

Comments on board responsibilities including regulating the use of land and water, and the deposit of waste, through the issuance and management of land use permits and water licences.

Examines implications of self-government in health for improving provision of services and providing a voice in political health systems. Chapter in book: Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada: Current Trends and Issues edited by J. H. Hylton.

Explores fundamental issues and complexities in the implementation of contemporary Aboriginal community justice.

Discussion on historical and current government attitudes and policies toward Native issues.

Looks at the United Nations and other international initiatives designed to protect minorities and discusses how they may appear to be in conflict with other human rights efforts aimed at all individuals.

Book review of: A Concise History of Canada's First Nations by Olive Patricia Dickason, with William Newbigging.

Interview with Tony Belcourt regarding negotiations of the Constitution Act of 1982. Duration: 31:12.

Looks at Canadian Aboriginal women activists and their fight for constitutional sex equality rights.

The author examines her own intellectual and personal colonization and the continued oppression of First Nations people and discusses how Aboriginal women need to be involved in restorative justice.

Lawyer discusses her involvement in court cases which addressed the question of who is entitled to status as an Indian under the Indian Act. Duration: 1:08:34.

Explains that the Constitution Act, 1982 does not diminish any of the the rights of Aboriginal peoples guaranteed by earlier Constitutional declarations or Agreements, but it provides additional guarantees.

Law Thesis (LL.M)--University of Victoria, 2005.

Debate at Chiefs Conference in Saskatoon over government's failure to accept their amendments to Indian Treaty and Aboriginal rights protection.

Explains characteristics of Aboriginal Title: collective right, pluralistic, jurisdictional dimension, inalienable, inherent limit, and flows from a special historical relationship between the Crown and Aboriginal people.

Looks at Section 35 (1) and (2) and Section 37 of the Canadian Constitution Act of 1982.

Looks at the organization, The National Métis Women of Canada (NWAC) and their involvement in the Charlottetown Accord.

Looks at museum collections in Stockholm, Sweden focusing on the work by Ernst Manker curator of the Lapp Department.

Paper originally presented at the National Claims Research Workshop, October 7, 2002. Overview of law in Canada surrounding duty to consult and Walpole Island First Nation's experiences with accommodation of rights.

Discusses the ethical, cultural & political dilemmas and struggles that non-Hawaiian students present when included as learners in Indigenous studies.

Examines the use of digital media in Pond Inlet and Baker Lake to acquaint residents of issues regarding resource development proposals.

Chapter in book: Advancing Aboriginal Claims: Visions/Strategies/Directions edited by Kerry Wilkins.

Questions the improvements to Aboriginal health, independence and equity over the past twenty years.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2006.

Focuses on health and access to healthcare, participation and consultation, access to information, livelihoods, territories, land and resources, and access to clean water and sanitation facilities. Under each topic lists promising practices and key actions for States and other stakeholders.

Natural Resource and Environmental Studies Thesis (MNRES)--The University of Northern British Columbia, 2008.

Review of the Cree-Naskapi (of Quebec) Act.

Advocates for development of guidelines to protect a communities' interests.

Examines a conceptual framework used with food security movement that helps young people understand their social context and values and engages them in social justice work.

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

Discusses decolonizing universities and looking at misinformation presented by past scholarship.

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.

Book review of: Making Space for Indigenous Feminism edited by Joyce Green.

Looks at the Alberta government's consultation policy and practice, focusing on the Athabasca region.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2011.

Outlines guiding first principles by examining significant case law as well as discussing the inherent right to self-governance and steps toward reconciliation.

Provides an overview of historic treaties, modern treaties and non-treaty areas and how duty to consult applies to each group. Focuses on defining the role of the Energy Regulator in reference to the Crown's duty to consult.

Discusses the launch of the adolescent-friendly version of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Describes how First Nations leaders utilize colonial stereotyping to transform the cultural performance of the rodeo into a vehicle of political power.

Examines one of the difficulties with beginning cultural initiatives that depend on support from the government and other agencies.

Examines the issue of cultural heritage ownership and rights. Chapter from: Properties of Culture - Culture as Property: Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia edited by Erich Kasten.