Reserves
Stabilizing Dog Populations and Improving Animal and Public Health Through a Participatory Approach in Indigenous Communities
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
J. M Schurer
K. Phipps
C. Okemow
H. Beatch
E. Jenkins
Zoonoses and Public Health, vol. 62, no. 6, 2015, pp. 445-455
Description
Looks at the changes in dog and parasite demographics following veterinary public health interventions in rural communities.
Stand Off, Alta. on Blood Reserve
Images » Photographs
Description
A photograph taken at Stand Off, Alta. on Blood Reserve. Shows a ceremony in which Alexander of Tunis, Governor General, was inducted into Kainai Chieftanship. Part of a series of photographs, LH 2166-2169. In this photograph, Percy Creighton stands in centre holding "weasel tail robe", formerly owned by Red Crow, Blood war chief and signator to Treaty 7. Robe now in Alberta provincial Museum. John Cotton, kneeling at right, is medicine man performing initiation ceremony.
State Authority to Tax Out-of-State Income of Reservation Indians: A Note on Fond du Lac v. Einess
Alternate Title
Indigenous Law & Policy Center Occasional Paper Series
Indigenous Law & Policy Center Working Paper ; 2010-03
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Erin Lillie
Indigenous Law & Policy Center Working Paper
Description
Looks at a legal dispute over taxation issues.
Statement by the Honourable Jean Chretien, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development based on a speech delivered in Regina, October 2, 1969.
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
Description
In a statement, Jean Chretien rejects criticism from Aboriginal leaders relating to the publishing of the "White Paper,", and emphasizes that the Federal Government's proposals were "made in good faith" and that negotiations with Aboriginal leaders were essential in establishing a new policy for Aboriginals.
Study of Passes for Indians to Leave Their Reserves
Alternate Title
Bennett, B., "Passes for Indians to Leave Reserves"
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
B. Bennett
Description
Cites many letters between government officials, NWMP officers and Canadian Army officers regarding passes and concludes these passes certainly existed. Passes came into existence after the 1885 resistance. Evidence of their use was only found in Treaty 4, 6 and 7 territories, and it cannot be certain they were used in every agency. Author states evidence indicates passes were used as late as the 1930s, but no sources are given.
Sturgeon Lake First Nation Inquiry: Red Deer Holdings Agricultural Lease
E-Books
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
Historical background and submission to Indian Claims Commission (ICC) regarding whether Canada breached its duties to the Band in 1982 by failing to comply with the Indian Act provisions for leasing reserve land. However, ICC may only hear claims rejected by Canada 15 or more years ago. ICC did recommend the "15-year rule" be repealed. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Sub Committee on Children and Youth at Risk of the Standing Committee of Human Resources Development and the Status of Persons With Disabilities: Aboriginal Children and Youth Resident on Reserve
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada
Description
Discusses some barriers facing Aboriginal children being placed in care including increased number of children being placed in non-Aboriginal homes and lack of funding for social service programs on reserves. Presents recommendations that are inline with the United Nations recommendations.
Successful Housing in First Nation Communities: A Report on Community Case Studies
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Daniel J. Brant
Description
Discusses attributes of successful programs and the institutions which administer them such as governance, involvement of householders, ability to enforce rules, availability of capital, inspections, and subsidies.
Suicide Ideation and Attempts Among First Nations Peoples Living On-Reserve in Canada: The Intergenerational and Cumulative Effects of Indian Residential Schools
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robyn Jane McQuaid
Amy Bombay
Opal Arilla McInnis
Courtney Humeny
Kimberly Matheson ... [et al.]
Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 62, no. 6, 2017, pp. 422-430
Description
Looks at links between Indian Residential School attendance, family, and suicidal thoughts and attempts by Aboriginal adults.
Sumas Indian Band Inquiry 1919 Surrender of Indian Reserve No. 7
E-Books
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
Historical background and submission to Indian Claims Commission (ICC) regarding the lawfulness of the surrender of IR 7 to the Crown for sale to the Soldier Settlement Board. ICC recommended that there be joint research into whether the Band received fair market value for their land in 1919 and if not the Band should receive compensation. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Summary of Elders' Interviews -- Land and Land Surrenders
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Lynne Hickey
Indian History Film Project
Description
Sixty-three elders' interviews from the Treaty 8 area were reviewed for references to land, and of these, all but fourteen contain some sort of statement about land.
Supporting Indigenous Families in the Cree Territory: Lessons from the  Mashkûpímâtsît Awash Initiative
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Faisca Richer
Emilie Robert
Michèle Boileau-Falardeau
Anne-Lou McNeil Gauthier
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 109, no. 5-6, December 2018, pp. 710-716
Description
Examines the successes of a culturally appropriate early childcare and development program and challenges in implementing home visits in three communities in Québec; stresses the importance of hiring local Indigenous female family support workers (FSW) to provide culturally safe programming and outreach services.
Survey of First Nations People Living On-reserve = Sondage auprès des Premières nations vivant dans les réserves
E-Books
Author/Creator
EKOS Research Associates
Description
Survey sample contains a total of 1,423 completed interviews. Questions focused on relationship with the Federal government and the services it provided.
Text in English and French. English version starts at page 80.
Sustainability in Proximity to Industry: The Case of Critical Events in Walpole Island
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert Vanwynsberghe
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 1, 2000, pp. 99-128
Description
Describes the challenges faced by Walpole Island Reserve (Bkejwanong) concerning sustainable development, industrialization and with collective forces of community action.
Tagging, Rapping and the Voices of the Ancestors: Expressing Aboriginal Identity between the Small City and the Rez
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Marianne Ignace
Description
Explores how Aboriginal youth have embraced and transformed a "culture" originally associated with the black urban ghetto.
Excerpt from The Small Cities Book: On the Cultural Future of Small Cities edited by W.F. Garrett-Petts.
Tales from the Tenant: The Quest for Housing in a Colonized Country
Alternate Title
Finding Housing Off Reserve with Jim & Ella
Finding Housing on Reserve with Jim & Ella
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Francesca Fionda
Joshua Pawis-Steckley
no. 3
Description
Two comics which illustrate the challenges associated with finding adequate housing both on and off reserve.
Taxpayer Organization Pushes for Taxing On-Reserve Purchases
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Isha Thompson
Windspeaker, vol. 27, no. 10, January 2010, p. 8
Description
Brief article claiming that First Nations tax exemptions give their businesses an unfair advantage.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.8.
TCU Leaders Attend Obama Visit to Standing Rock
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Patty Talahongva
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 26, no. 1, Celebrating 25 Years, Fall, 2014
Description
Discusses remarks by President Obama on the work of tribal colleges and how education and tribal colleges can help rebuild America.
Telling Our Twisted Histories
Web Sites » Organizations
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
Kaniehti:io Horn
Terre Innue
Description
Website contains links to a series of 12 podcasts which explore the impact of words such as reconciliation, indian time, school, reserve, and savage. Host Kaniehti:io Horn engages in conversations with more than 70 people from 15 First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities.
The Thatcher Government in Saskatchewan and Treaty Indians, 1964 – 1971: The Quiet Revolution
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James M. Pitsula
Saskatchewan History, vol. 48, no. 1, Spring, 1996, pp. 3-17
Description
Examines the policies of the Saskatchewan government under Premier Ross Thatcher; notes that while the intentions of the government were based in empathy and a desire to implement changes that would improve the quality of life for First Nations peoples, their practice was rooted in paternalistic methods and assimilation policies bringing the Provincial government into conflict with the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians (FSI, now the FSIN).
Entire issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 3.
Therapeutic Experience of Maximum Feasible Participation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
George Pierre Castile
American Studies, vol. 46, no. 3-4, Indigeneity at the Crossroads of American Studies, Fall/Winter, 2005, pp. 77-87
Description
Looks at attempts to introduce self government on Federal Indian reservations using the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act, the termination policy, and the Indian Claims Commission Act.
Joint issue with: Indigenous Studies Today Issue 1, Spring 2006.
Thomas Quinney Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Thomas Quinney
Louis P. Crier
Indian History Film Project
Description
The signing and understanding of Treaty #6 ; loss of land (an island) thought to be part of Frog Lake Reserve.
Tillie Black Bear: Her family, Boarding Schools & Life on the Rosebud Reservation
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Tillie Black Bear
Description
Lakota family violence expert and one of the founders of the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, speaks at the North Michigan University's Uniting Neighbors in the Experience of Diversity (UNITED) Conference on September 23, 2008.
Tobacco Smoking Among First Nations Youth Living on Reserve and in Northern Communities: A Mixed Methods Study
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura Wright
Colleen A. Dell
First Nations Information Governance Centre
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 11, no. 4, 2020, pp. 1-30
Description
Looks at the various contributing factors for the increased smoking rates of Indigenous youth in Indigenous communities.
Tom Yellowhorn Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Tom Yellowhorn
Johnny Smith
Indian History Film Project
Description
Several topics are discussed: describes the acceptance by the Peigans of Treaty #7, and its effects on their way of life; compares U.S. and Canadian treaties and criticizes Canadian education of Indians; briefly describes some aspects of traditional ceremonies; and tells story of two spirits gambling for control of lands adjacent to Rockies.