Treaties

Article from 1993 Conference proceedings, challenges the beliefs held by the mainstream justice system. Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.

Presents a case law summary of the major Aboriginal rights and title litigation, and presents an outline of the resulting Forest and Range agreements that British Columbia has entered into with community members.

Indigenous Governance Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2003.

Discusses Aboriginal rights and working in partnership with First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities to equitably share in the benefits of resource development. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 12.

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

Field test draft.

Shadow report submitted to the United Nations' Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination regarding Canada's 19th and 20th reports on the United Nations' International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

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

Focuses on duty to consult and Indigenous rights.

Describes First Rider (Bill Heavy Runner)'s understanding of promises made in Treaty #7 and how they were later broken.

Book review of: Fish in the Lakes, Wild Rice, and Game in Abundance: Testimony on Behalf of Mille Lacs Ojibwe Hunting and Fishing Rights compiled by James M. McClurken.

Reviews court cases trying to clarify Indian salmon fishing treaty rights and Judge Boldt's decision in the case of United States v Washington.

Environmental Studies Thesis (M.S.)--Wilfred Laurier University, 1998.

Describes the reaction to the 1999 Supreme Court of Canada decision regarding Mi'kmaq fisherman Donald Marshall and how the media can shape public opinion.

A photograph of five Indian men, 4 standing wearing ceremonial dress, (buckskin with beadwork, headdresses), one seated in western suit and long braid. Probably taken in Carlton at a Treaty celebration.

Looks at characteristics and meaning of Aboriginal fishing rights within context of in Canadian law and goals of effective management and fair distribution.

Describes the resistance of Nekaneet (Foremost Man or Front Man) and those that followed him, to the attempts of the Canadian government to settle the First Nations onto reserves. Argues that Nekaneet’s goal was a reserve in the Cypress Hills. Entire issue on one .pdf scroll to page 94

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

Book review of: Forging the Prairie West by John Herd Thompson.

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

Court transcript of a trial to determine the validity of certain treaties. Court proceedings conducted during the months of April to August of 1973.

Copies of pages in the Register of Land Purchases from Indians and additional pages recording other agreements made by the Hudson's Bay Company in Nanaimo and Fort Rupert, which were also known as the Douglas treaties.

Looks at Songhees history and eleven Fort Victoria treaties for 1850 and 1852 in which Indian title to lands between Sooke and Saanich were terminated.

Court transcript of a trial to determine the validity of certain treaties. Court trial conducted during April to August, 1973.

Historical look at early childhood education in the light of the impotance of the Treaty of Waitangi and the Maori self-determination movement.

Comparison of historical setting, policy, aboriginal rights, federal and provincial/state powers, and self-government.

An account of loss of treaty status and attempts to regain it.

This 62-year-old speaks of the history of Lesser Slave Lake Reserves; and gives details of the history of Swan River Reserve.

Note: The title and description of this document uses wording that was common to mainstream society of that time period in history. As such, it contains language that is no longer in common use and may offend some readers. This wording should not be construed to represent the views of the Indigenous Studies Portal or the University of Saskatchewan Library. File contains a photocopy of an essay by Ben Franklin written in 1784 called: "Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America," taken from Chapter 40 of an unknown source.

Discusses the problems associated with anthropological research in court cases involving fishing in British Columbia.

Description of the scene at the signing of Treaty #6 ; interpretation of promises made.

Gives the history of the Frog Lake Reserve and the taking of and interpretation of Treaty #6.

Talks of Indian attitudes to treaty promises, reserves, missionaries.

Interviewee's father, from Peguis Reserve in Manitoba, was interpreter at Treaty #8. Discussion is about treaty promises and the sale of reserve lands.

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

Historical background and submissions to Indian Claims Commission (ICC) whether descendents and former members of the Michel Band are entitled to be recognized as members under the Indian Act. ICC concluded Canada has no obligation to recognize or reconstitute the Band; ICC recommended the claim regarding invalid reserve surrenders be submitted to Specific 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.]

Looks at the history of Treaty Land Entitlement, the negotiations, and the conclusion. Total duration of four series: 68:21.

Resource for teachers, students and the general public dealing with treaties in Saskatchewan.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2007.

Canadian Studies and Native Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Trent University, 2004.

Analyzes the historical political and economic development in Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee based on the legacy of James Bay and the new economic development plan, The Plan Nord.

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.

Book review of: From Rupert's Land to Canada edited by Theodore Binnema, Gerhard J. Ens and R. C. Macleod.

Book review of: From Treaties to Reserves by D. J. Hall.

Book review of: From Treaty Peoples to Treaty Nation: A Road Map for all Canadians by Greg Poelzer and Ken S. Coates. Several book reviews on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 18.

Book review of: From Wooden Ploughs to Welfare by Helen Buckley.