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Lang Says Indians Cannot be Ignored

Articles » General
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 5, no. 11, June 30, 1975, p. 5
Federal government meets with an all Chiefs delegation from Saskatchewan in Ottawa.
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Last to the Ballot Box

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Danielle Conolly
Nelle Oosterom
Canada's History, vol. 90, no. 3, June/July 2010, pp. 16-17
Comments on the fiftieth anniversary, in 2010, of First Nations unconditional right to vote in federal elections and the time line leading up to that event.
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The Law of the Land: New Jurisprudence on Aboriginal Title

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Author/Creator
Senwung Luk
Supreme Court Law Review, vol. 67, 2014, pp. [289]-317
Looks at the Supreme Court decision in Tsilhqot'in Nation v. British Columbia case which opted for a territorial concept rather than the usual theory of Aboriginal title.
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Lawful Subversion of the Criminal Justice Process? Judicial, Prosecutorial, and Police Discretion in Edmondson, Kindrat, and Brown

Alternate Title
Sexual Assault in Canada: Law, Legal Practice and Women's Activism
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Lucinda Vandervort
Examines the case in which three non-Aboriginal men were accused of sexually assaulting a twelve-year-old Aboriginal girl. Chapter from Sexual Assault in Canada: Law, Legal Practice and Women's Activism edited by Elizabeth A. Sheehy.
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LEAF Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Aboriginal Peoples on Bill S-3: An Act to amend the Indian Act (elimination of sex-based inequities in registration)

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF)
Gives reasons for recommendation that the Bill be withdrawn and redrafted to remove all sex discrimination from the status provisions of the Act. Argues that in its present form, fails to meet the Government of Canada's constitutional obligations to Indigenous women.
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A Legacy of Assimilation: Abuse in Canadian Native Residential Schools

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Julie Cassidy
Southern Cross University Law Review, vol. 7, 2003, pp. 154-219
Provides an overview of key events relating to residential schools, and discusses the issues determined by Canadian courts in four specific cases:Blackwater v Plint (No 1), Blackwater v Plint (No 2), and Mowatt and A(TWN) v Clarke.
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The Legacy of Inadequate Housing

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Author/Creator
Paul Barnsley
Windspeaker, vol. 21, no. 9, December 2003

Uses federal legal ownership of on-reserve housing plus local band level politics as reasons why housing projects continue to be inferior in comparison to off-reserve housing.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.9.

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The Legacy of Nutritional Experiments in Residential Schools

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Ian Mosby
Robert Joseph
Eduardo Jovel
Gerry Oleman
Jessie Newman
Panel discussion involving school survivors, Director of Indigenous Research Partnerships at University of British Columbia, dietetics student, and author of Administering Colonial Science: Nutrition Research and Human Biomedical Experimentation in Aboriginal Communities and Residential Schools, 1942-1952. Duration: 2:02:55.
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Legacy of Residential Schools: Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women

Alternate Title
From Truth to Reconciliation: Transforming the Legacy of Residential Schools
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Beverley Jacobs
Andrea J. Williams
Describes the findings of the Sisters in Spirit initiative and work with grieving families. Chapter from From Truth to Reconciliation: Transforming the Legacy of Residential Schools edited by Marlene Brant Castellano.
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A Legal Analysis of Genocide: Supplementary Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Represents views and opinions of the National Inquiry after consultations with legal scholars and lawyers with expertise on genocide and international crimes. Topics include: definition, Canada's actions and omissions as genocidal conduct (actus reus), Canada's specific intent to destroy Indigenous peoples (mens rea), and Canada's responsibility for genocide and obligations for reparations.
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Legal Strategy Coalition on Violence Against Indigenous Women Statement on the Importance of Full Provincial and Territorial Cooperation With the Upcoming National Inquiry on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Legal Strategy Coalition on Violence Against Indigenous Women (LSC)
Comments on the pre-inquiry consultation process which was structured around questions prepared by the federal government that sought input on who to include in the inquiry process, how best to support participants in an inquiry and what key issues should be addressed in the inquiry.
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Legalizing, Decolonizing, and Modernizing New York State's Indian Law

Alternate Title
Legalising, Decolonising, and Modernising New York State's Indian Law
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert B. Porter
Albany Law Review, vol. 63, no. 1, Fall, 1999, pp. 125-200
Argues that most of the state law concerning First Nations' are not valid and require reform to appropriately deal with the Haudenosaunee (the Six Nation Iroquois Confederacy).
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"Legislating-Out" Sexual Discrimination: Native Women and Bill C-31

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Christine Saulnier
Problématique, no. 5, 1999, pp. 64-92
Comments on the historical context of the issue of sexual and racial discrimination, presents the flaws apparent in the design and implementation stages, and analyzes the basis for the differences between the evaluations presented by the government and those by the target population.
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A Less Private Practice: Government Lawyers and Legal Ethics

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jennifer Leitch
Dalhousie Law Journal, vol. 43, no. 1, 2020, p. article 10
Discusses the problems that arise when the rules governing private practice are applied to lawyers working in the public sector. As a case study uses the litigation over the government's non-disclosure, during settlement adjudication, of a report on investigations conducted by the Ontario Provincial Police into abuses committed at St. Anne's Residential School.
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Lessons from Abroad: Towards a New Social Model for Canada's Aboriginal Peoples

Alternate Title
CPRN Social Architecture Papers
Research Report (Canadian Policy Research Networks. Family Network) ; F 40
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Martin Papillon
Gina Cosentino
Looks at situation in the United States, Australia and New Zealand in terms of Indigenous peoples' status and relationship to the State and challenges and opportunities associated with social programs.
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Let's Hope Institute Reverses Ugly Trend

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Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
LeaderPost, June 4, 2007, p. A3
Comments on the creation of the Saskatchewan First Nation Family and Community Institute and hopes that the institute can stem the flow of children placed into foster care.
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Let's Talk Treaty!

Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Loretta Ross
Treaty Relations Commission of Manitoba (TRCM)
Series of 15-minute, biweekly radio programs aimed at general treaty education and hosted by the Manitoba Treaty Commissioner.
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Let Voters Decide Beatty's Fate

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Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
Leader Post, January 14, 2008, p. A3
Discusses the move of Joan Beatty, the once NDP provincial candidate to a federal Liberal candidate.
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Letter from the Interior: James Teit and the "Injustice of Displacement"

Alternate Title
Research Note Letter from the Interior: James Teit and the "Injustice of Displacement"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
BC Studies, no. 208, Winter, 2020/2021, pp. 127-134,162
A response to Wendy Wickwire's Biography on ethnographer James Teit and his work amongst the Sinixt and Ktunaxa people. The author uses ethnography to discuss the lack of Indigenous recognition of the Sinixt people under the Indian Act by the federal government.
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Letter: Give AFN Back to the Chiefs

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Author/Creator
Ralph Paul
Windspeaker, vol. 27, no. 11, February 2010, p. 5

Letter to editor by Ralph Paul, Chief of the English River First Nation, being denied his rights as a chief to question Minister Chuck Strahl.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.5.

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Letter Supports First Nations Commercial Fisheries

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Author/Creator
Debora Steel
Windspeaker, vol. 28, no. 6, September 2010, p. 17

Discusses the Department of Fisheries and Oceans mismanagement of the 2010 Somass sockeye fish run.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.17.

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Letter To The Editor: Response From The Chief of FSIN

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Author/Creator
Perry Bellegarde
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 31, no. 1, Winter, 2002, p. 3,16
Chief Perry Bellegarde suggests that statements made by the Federal Indian Affairs Minister to a Star Phoenix Editorial Board need clarification.
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Liberal MP to Propose FNGA Amendment

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Paul Barnsley
Windspeaker, vol. 21, no. 1, April 2003, p. 13

Member of Parliament, Rick Laliberte, proposes to amend the First Nations governance act (FNGA) by including, in the definition, all the Indigenous nations names.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.13.

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Life Stories of Inuit Leaders: Inuit Voices in the Making of Nunavut

Alternate Title
INALCO 2009, Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference, Orality (Paris, 2006)
Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Thierry Rodon
Louis McComber
Five narrators comment on the transformation to the way of life of Inuit people due to the arrival of government services. Paper from Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference edited by B. Collingnon and M. Therrien.
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Living Treaties, Breathing Research

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Aimée Craft
Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, vol. 26, no. 1, White Settler Colonialism and Indigeneity in the Canadian Context: A Tribute to Patricia Monture, 2014, pp. 1-22
Looks at the true meaning and intent of treaties by the retelling of Treaty One from an Anishinaabe contextual perspective.
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Local Governments and First Nations Consultation

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Len S. Marchand
General background information about the duty to consult, including pertinent court cases, and brief discussion of how the principle may impact municipalities.
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