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Comments on free, prior, informed consent (FPIC) which has become the new business standard when negotiating access to land resources on indigenous territories.

Indian Affairs Minister Jim Prentice announces, "Métis students who attended the [Ile-a-la-Crosse Residential] school" will not be part of the Indian residential school compensation agreement.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.8.

States that the Federal Conservative government's policies are marginalizing moderate First Nations leaders.

Looks at ways in which the League represented an important moment in the political history of the Native people of Canada.

Constitutional documents and Pre- and Post-Confederation statutes. Post-Confederation category is further divided into administrative, constitutional, federal grants, federal-provincial agreements, lands, Manitoba, Northern Canada, Saskatchewan and Alberta, and miscellaneous,

Starting with the Revised Statute of 1886, relevant portions of each amending statute of the revised Indian Act are inserted following the provision affected.

Why the Constitution is so important to Aboriginal peoples.

Federation of Saskatchewan Indians asked the British Court to provide protection of Treaty and Aboriginal rights before the repatriation of the Canada Act.

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

[Arctic and Northern Studies] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2005.

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.

Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2016.

Discusses the language used in arguments by the various actors in the Great Whale (James Bay phase two) controversy.

Brief outline of the Canadian and Alberta government's duty to consult with First Nations when economic development will impact their lands.

Paper written for conference "Impact of the Haida and Taku River Decisions". Sponsored by the Pacific Business and Law Institute held January 26-27, 2005 in Vancouver. Summary of court decision and clarification of Aboriginal Rights.

Looks at mechanisms to equip participants with the necessary resources for well-informed community decisions and effective participation in a public consultation process.

Explains the meaning of consultation and provides a tool to assist First Nations in effectively engaging in consultation with Canadian provincial and federal governments.

Looks at national identity in the opening and closing ceremonies and the use of the Inuit inukshuk as the logo.

Focuses on integrated resource management throughout comprehensive claim territories in the Arctic and Subarctic, with special attention on the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement and the Inuvialuit Final Agreement.

Comments on five major concerns: tourism, substance abuse and crime, cultural maintenance, education, and land use planning and wildlife management.

Book review of: Contested Ground edited by Ann McGrath. Review located by scrolling to page 232.

Session One from public conference Assessing the Indian Residential Schools Litigation and Settlement Processes held Friday, January 18, 2013 at the University of Toronto. Includes prayer and opening remarks and discussion on settlement negotiations. Duration: 1:54:14.

Contract between the Tungavik Federation of Nunavut, the Government of Canada and the Government of the Northwest Territories.

Examines the impact of two Supreme Court of Canada decisions regarding the interpretations of modern treaties.

Government's response to Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women's recommendation about investigation of cases of missing or murdered Aboriginal women.

Book based on presentations given at a colloquium of the same name. Part V contains Aboriginal content. To access chapter, scroll down to appropriate page. Chapter 36: Converging or Diverging Pathways to Aboriginal Self-Determination? Indigenous Peoples, Self-Government, and the Federation by Frances Abele and Michael J. Prince. (p.443) Chapter 37: Keynote Address on Nunavut: Convergence and Divergence in North America: Canada and the United States by Donat Savoie. ( p.

Looks at a key document instrumental in helping to rewrite Manitoba history.

Examines service fragmentation due to poor inter-jurisdictional coordination, especially in cases where patients are moved to and from reserves, and makes recommendations for improvement. Public Policy Research Project (MPP)--Simon Fraser University, 2013.

Copy of Treaty 3.

Federal government site providing links to Policy and Legislation, Families of Offenders Portal, Restorative Justice, Citizen's Advisory Committees, Parole and Community Corrections, and reintegration programs.

Documents related to the Northwest Resistance of 1869-1870.

Discusses provincial as compared to federal funding, problems of economies of scale with respect to small schools, support for second and third level services, and potential resources made available through signing a treaty, self-government or land claims agreement.

Includes definitions, schedules and articles.

Comments on a decision that, while based on Treaty 3, is assumed its application will apply to other numbered treaties in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario.

Reviews decisions made by the British Columbia Court of Appeal.

Discusses the enfranchisement of eastern First Nations by Macdonald’s Electoral Franchise Act in 1885, the participation of Indigenous voters in the Brant South and Haldimand ridings in elections between 1886 and 1897, and their disenfranchisement when the Electoral Franchise Act was repealed by Laurier’s government. Also considers conflicting perspectives on enfranchisement within the First Nations community.

Focuses on the ramifications of the case in which the Supreme Court of Canada affirmed the Mi'kmaq treaty right to hunt, fish gather and trade for necessaries.

Comments that due to no time limits on claims that negotiation, not litigation is the preferred route to pursue.

Describes why land claim cases should not be in the court system and in particular the experience of the Paspaschase Band.

For Indigenous content see chapters 10, 11, and 12.

Overview of concepts of well-being and quality of life in relation to treaty negotiations, oral histories of treaty and the context in which negotiations took place, with particular reference to the "Medicine Chest" clause and provision of aid in times of "famine and distress".

Federal Court of Appeal upheld decision concerning lower pension benefits for First Nation people on-reserve, who had not contributed to the Canada Pension Plan until 1988.

Suggests that rather than trying to create culturally responsive curricula, there should be a movement toward "culturally founded" education, which would be developed by northern Aboriginal peoples from their own cultural perspectives.

Report discusses location and design recommendations for establishing a proposed Aboriginal Healing Lodge somewhere in the three Prairie Provinces.

Comments on the link between negative social determinants and mental ill-health and how to address these issues.

Describes how a different approach to Inuit aspirations resulted in an Agreement leading to the creation of Nunavut in 1999.

Argues that numerous legal and policy decisions are setting the stage for massive confrontations over approval of developments unless appropriate consultation processes are put in place.