The Government of Canada and Lutsel K'e Dene First Nation Take Steps to Create a New National Park on East Arm of Great Slave Lake
Articles » General
Canadian Corporate News, October 13, 2006
Description
Minister of the Environment and Parks Canada, Rona Ambrose, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Chief Adeline Jonasson to advance work on an area of interest totalling 33,525 sq. km.. See article # 74.
Government of Canada Progress Report (2006-2012): With Strong Resolve: Advancing Our Relationship With First Nations Peoples and Communities
Alternate Title
With Strong Resolve: Advancing Our Relationship With First Nations Peoples and Communities
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Government of Canada
Description
Comments on the governments commitment to helping Aboriginal Canadians achieve their full potential as productive members of the Canadian economy and society.
The Government of Canada's Response to the Descheneaux Decision
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC)
Description
Superior Court of Quebec ruled that several paragraphs and one sub-section relating to Indian registration (status) under section 6 of the Indian Act violated equality provisions under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Found difference of treatment between women and men and their respective descendants.
Government Setting a Trap, Says Professor [First Nations Fiscal and Statistical Management Act]
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Paul Barnsley
Windspeaker, vol. 20, no. 6, October 2002, p. 2
Description
Analyses of the federal government's draft proposal of an act, seen by some, as an attempt to fore-go some fiduciary responsibilities by giving First Nations governments the right to employ taxation to their members.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.2.
Government Spending and Own-Source Revenue for Canada's Aboriginals: A Comparative Analysis
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ravina Bains
Kayla Ishkanian
Description
Compares Department of Indigenous and Northern Affairs spending to federal program spending from 1946/47 through 2013/14. Per-person comparisons date from 1949/50. Also statistics on Health Canada and provincial spending from 1994/95 to 2013/14.
[Government Takes Over Residential Schools]
Alternate Title
CBC Television News ; May 1, 1969
[Government Takes Over Residential Schools From Churches]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Craig Oliver
Stan Cuthand
Adrian Stimson
Description
Reports that staff at residential schools are now government employees and are happy with the change.
Duration: 3:32.
Government Will Appeal Court Ruling
Articles » General
Anglican Journal, vol. 130, no. 3, March 2004, p. 8
Description
Blackwell decision finds government 100 per cent liable for damages suffered at the Alberni Indian Residential School; application for appeal to Supreme Court of Canada to be made.
Governor General Hears Concerns of Youth
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Andréa Ledding
Eagle Feather News, vol. 13, no. 9, September 2010, p. 3,5
Description
Comments on Governor General Michaëlle Jean's tour through Saskatchewan during the International Year of Youth.
Article found by scrolling to pages 3 and 5.
Grade Five Treaty Education Learning Resource
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Saskatchewan Ministry of Education?]
Description
Includes key questions, outcomes and indicators, "Assessing Journey in Honouring Treaties" inquiry questions about treaty relationships, spirit and intent, historical context, and treaty promises and provisions, teacher background information, and suggested resources.
Grade Four Treaty Education Learning Resource
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Saskatchewan Ministry of Education?]
Description
Includes key questions, outcomes and indicators, "Understanding How Treaty Promises Have Not Been Kept" inquiry questions about treaty relationships, spirit and intent, historical context, and treaty promises and provisions, teacher background information, and suggested resources.
Grade Seven Treaty Education Learning Resource
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Saskatchewan Ministry of Education?]
Description
Includes key questions, outcomes and indicators, "Understanding Treaties in a Contemporary Context" inquiry questions about treaty relationships, spirit and intent, historical context, and treaty promises and provisions, teacher background information, and suggested resources.
Grade Six Treaty Education Learning Resource
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Saskatchewan Ministry of Education?]
Description
Includes key questions, outcomes and indicators, "Moving towards Fulfillment of Treaties" inquiry questions about treaty relationships, spirit and intent, historical context, and treaty promises and provisions, teacher background information, and suggested resources.
Grassy Narrows Marchers Offer Government Mercury-Tainted Fish
Articles » General
Author/Creator
David P. Ball
Windspeaker, vol. 30, no. 4, July 2012, p. 8
Description
Looks at the high levels of mercury found in Ontario Rivers, the effects of this level on Aboriginal communities and the need for government to compensate people and clean up the contaminated rivers.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.8.
Grassy Narrows Reserve: Mercury Pollution, Social Disruption, and Natural Resources: A Question of Autonomy
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christopher Vecsey
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 11, no. 4, Autumn, 1987, pp. 287-314
Description
Using the Ojibway Grassy Narrows reservation in Ontario to analyze the negative socioeconomic impact of a lack of Indigenous autonomy and control over their own land and resources.
Groundwork for Reassessment: A Few Legal Pearls
Alternate Title
Between Keewatin and Tsilhqot'in: Reflections From the Centre of Turtle Island
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Bill Gallagher
Description
Presentation by the author of Resource Rulers: Fortune and Folly on Canada's Road to Resources, offers recommendations to First Nations people including promoting their 197 legal wins.
Duration: 31:50.
Guerin v. The Queen, [1984] 2 S.C.R. 335
Alternate Title
Delbert Guerin, Joseph Becker, Eddie Campbell, Marg Charles, Gertrude Guerin and Gail Sparrow Suing on Their Own Behalf and on Behalf of All Other Members of the Musqueam Indian Band
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Supreme Court Canada
Description
The Crown did a lease on the Band's behalf but the lease had little resemblance to terms approved at a prior surrender meeting. Supreme Court Reporter at page 335 to 395. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Guide for the Management of Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in Modern Treaties
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Government of Canada
Description
Guide includes background information on provisions and obligations in modern treaties, policy considerations and analysis on a range of dispute resolution options and an outline of dispute resolution in modern treaties agreements.
Haida - Booklet. - 1952.
Alternate Title
British Columbia Heritage Series. Series 1, Our Native Peoples ; vol. 4
Social Studies Bulletin
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Provincial Archives [of British Columbia]
Description
Booklet relating to the Haida people of northern coastal BC, describing various aspects of Haida culture such as daily subsistence, spirituality, shamanism, family life and legends.
Haida Building Toward Prosperous Future
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Monte Stewart
Business Edge, vol. 5, no. 2, January 25, 2008
Description
Discusses the challenges on Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands) that are standing in the way of economic development, such as building a hotel and a proposed wind-power project that would create jobs and economic opportunities.
Half-Breed Commission at Sturgeon River
Images » Photographs
Description
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.
A photograph of four men standing in front of a white tent. They are members of the Half-Breed Commission; at Sturgeon River, 14 September 1900.
A Hard Bed to Lie In: Matrimonial Real Property on Reserve
Alternate Title
Interim Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Shirley Maheu
Eileen Rossiter
Gérald A. Beaudoin
Thelma Chalifoux
Marisa Ferretti-Barth
Description
Examined the lack of legislation protecting Aboriginal women on reserves, in terms of property, available judicial remedies and execution of court orders, found that the situation violated their rights in terms of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and section 35(4) of the Constitution Act of 1982 and made recommendations for immediate actions.
The Harper Government, the Aboriginal Right to Self-Determination, and the Indian Act of 1876
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kristýna Onderkova
Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Studia Territorialia, vol. 15, no. 3-4, 2015, pp. 45-66
Description
Looks at the different ways the Conservative Government and First Nations' plan to reform the Indian Act and the possible effects on the status of First Nations.
Healing Begins When the Wounding Stops: Indian Residential Schools and the Prospects for "Truth and Reconciliation" in Canada
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Ward Churchill
Briarpatch Magazine, Indigenous/settler Relations, June/July 2008, p. [?]
Description
Looks at the five acts in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and contends all five were committed against First Nations peoples.
Healing Historical Trauma: Relocation of Aboriginal Communities: Case Study
Alternate Title
Aboriginal Studies ; 20
Peoples and Cultural Change Teacher Resource
Relocation of Aboriginal Communities: Case Study: The Mushuaua Innu and Davis Inlet
Walking Together: First Nations, Métis and Inuit Perspectives in Curriculum
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kanai Board of Education
Description
Teacher resource for Grade 11 Aboriginal Studies classes. Discusses the relocation of the Mushuaua Innu of Labrador which happened on three separate occasions: 1948, 1967 and 2002.
Excerpt from Peoples and Cultural Change Teacher Resource by the Kanai Board of Education.
Health Services Development in an Aboriginal Community: The Case of Peguis First Nation
Alternate Title
Research Program of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Benita Cohen
Description
Discusses the community's experience with controlling health care delivery beginning with administration of its health centre in 1980 and during the three-year period after signing a health transfer agreement with the federal government.
Hearing Voice: A Theoretical Framework for Truth Commission Testimony
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mickey Vallee
Law and Critique, vol. 27, no. 1, 2016, pp. 45-61
Description
Examines truth commissions in general and specifically the Truth and Reconciliation and states that compensation will only work if the government is open to alternative context-specific forms of justice.
Helping Indians to Help Themselves: A Committee to Investigate Itself: The 1951 Indian Act Consultation Process
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ian V.B. Johnson
Description
Overview of the evolution of the Act, description of the operation and processes of the committee, and highlights of testimony heard. Includes excerpts from Committee minutes and summary of conference proceedings.