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The Coercive Sterilization of Aboriginal Women in Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karen Stote
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 36, no. 3, 2012, pp. 117-150
Provides a historical and materialistic critique of coercive sterilization to serve the political and economic interests of Canada.
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Colonial Fracture And Community Cohesion: Governance In The Stó:Lõ Community Of Shxw'õwhámél

Alternate Title
Research Paper (National Centre for First Nations Governance)
Research Paper for the National Centre for First Nations Governance
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Keith Thor Carlson
Paper discusses three topics: the process of adopting the Siyá:m System of leadership, the limitations of the system as expressed by members of the community, and the government and missionary actions which isolated and curtailed the traditional inter-village family interactions.
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Colonialism, Disability, and Possible Lives: The Residential Treatment of Children Whose Parents Survived Indian Residential Schools

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Chris Chapman
Journal of Progressive Human Services, vol. 23, no. 2, 2012, pp. 127-158
Looks at institutional practices, such a physical restraints, behaviour modification and life-skills training, and questions if they serve the purpose to which they are designed.
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Colonialism of the Curve: Indigenous Communities and Bad COVID Data

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Courtney Skye
Discusses the large discrepancy between incidence and mortality rates reported by Indigenous Services Canada and those reported by communities themselves and compares the two sets of numbers in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Quebec. Argues that jurisdictional battles between federal and provincial governments have negatively impacted both delivery of services and accumulation of accurate information, with the result being lack of accountability at both levels of government.
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The Commission of 1885 to the North-West Territories

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
H. H. Langton
[W. P. R. Street]
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 25, no. 1, March 1944, pp. 38-53
Background to the Commission's role in enumerating Métis entitled to land, followed by transcript of Chief Commissioner's account of its activities.
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The Commission, the Community, and the Cree Woman in the Attic: Georgina Lightning's Older Than America in Canada's Culture of Redress

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
K. L. Killebrew
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Spring-Summer, 2019, pp. 136-169
Film criticism which discusses Lightning’s movie as an act of resistance to colonial backlash to reconciliation, and to settler narratives regarding Indian Residential Schools.
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Compact, Contract, Covenant: Aboriginal Treaty-Making in Canada, and: The Power of Promises: Rethinking Indian Treaties in the Pacific Northwest

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jill St. Germain
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 91, no. 2, June 2010, pp. 355-359
Book reviews of: Compact, Contract, Covenant: Aboriginal Treaty-Making in Canada by J.R. Miller and The Power of Promises: Rethinking Indian Treaties in the Pacific Northwest edited by Alexandra Harmon.
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A Companion to American Indian History

Alternate Title
Blackwell Companions to American History ; 4
E-Books
Author/Creator
Philip J. Deloria
John E. Kicza
Gregory Evans Dowd
Russell Thornton
Clara Sue Kidwell ... [et al.]
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Comparable Education: Is There a Place for 'Comparability' in First Nation Control of First Nation Education? Final Report

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Assembly of First Nations (AFN)
Report concludes the following: First Nation Control of First Nation Education is the ultimate objective, define comparability in terms of educational opportunity, avoid past misinterpretations of the principle of comparability and acknowledge and respect a series of guiding principles pertaining to the use of comparability.
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Comparative Governance Structures Among Aboriginal Peoples in Canada

Alternate Title
Fact Sheet (Scow Institute)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
David Schulze

Discusses the self-government issues of legitimacy, power and resources, by using examples of current agreements. The article breaks the areas down in terms of: basic principles, rights through treaties, federal-provincial division of power, status of lands, legislative powers, and funding.

Related Material: Fact Sheet.

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A Comparative Study on Dams and Power-water Diversion Projects across Canada, with Emphasis in Northern Ontario Proposed Water Developments and the Indian People Who Will Be Directly Affected by Their Impacts

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Harry Achneepineskum
The author, a member of the Ogoki (Martin Falls) band in northern Ontario, expresses concern with the Canadian government's plan to dam rivers in Canada and divert the water to the United States. He notes that Aboriginal land will be flooded, according to government proposals.
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A Comparison of Indigenous Sport for Development Policy Directives in Canada and Australia

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kevin J. Gardam
Audrey R. Giles
Steven Rynne
Lyndsay M. C. Hayhurst
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 7, no. 2, January 31, 2019, pp. 29-46
Reviews and compares government policies and reports from Canada and Australia; highlights that interdepartmental partnerships in areas such as health, education, and justice fail in Canada due to inadequate facilitation on the part of Indigenous sport for development (SFD) agencies, but that Australia is having greater success as a result of a focus on federal partnership building.
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A Compendium of Recommendations for Action on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada: Justice-Related Recommendations from Government and Community Reports between 2003-2015

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Manitoba Justice
Focuses on reforms that could be make by provincial and/or federal government justice departments in the areas of policing, prosecutions, corrections, victim services, crime prevention, policy and legislation.
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The Complete Indian News Collection, 1954-1982

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
University of Winnipeg
Published by Canadian government's Indian and Northern Affairs, Indian and Eskimo Affairs Program and intended for dissemination to First Nations people. Contains links to each issue of the newspaper and the entire collection is searchable. Articles reflect the attitudes and polices of the time.
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Completing Confederation: The Necessary Foundations

Alternate Title
[Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future Forum, November 2016]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Frances Abele
Erin Alexiuk
Satsan (Herb George)
Catherine MacQuarrie
Paper given at the Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future Forum, dialog and conference marking the 20th anniversary of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, November 2-3, 2016.
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The Concept of Crown and Aboriginal Self-Government

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas Isaac
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, 1994, pp. 221-250
Discusses how the concept of the Crown may be useful in efforts to achieve autonomy; with special reference to the Charlottetown Accord.
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Conflicting Plans

Alternate Title
Métis Development in the Canadian West ; 4
E-Books
Author/Creator
Calvin Racette

2nd edition.

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The Confrontation of Modern and Traditional Knowledge Systems in Development

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Pat Howard
Canadian Journal of Communication, vol. 19, no. 2, Spring, 1994, pp. [189-208]
Argues that economic analysis does not allow for concepts that are political in nature such as: power, authority, legitimacy and rights and has ignored issues of biological and cultural diversity.
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