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Presentation to the Provincial Congress

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Miles Richardson
Description
Chief Commissioner Miles Richardson discusses the land issue in British Columbia and identifies governance, revenue sharing, and compensation as critical issues to make treaty negotiations more effective. Duration: 18:53.
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Presentation to the Senate Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs on Bill C-6, Specific Claims Resolution Act by Chief Morris Shannacappo; Rolling River First Nation

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canada. Parliament. Senate. Senate Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs
Description
Submission discusses the flaws of Bill C-6 regarding the unilateral nature of appointments which it was felt compromised the independence of the claims body. Reproduction is a copy of an official work that is published by the Government of Canada and it is reproduced in affiliation with, or with the endorsement of the Government of Canada.
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Preservation as Perpetuation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marcia Pablo
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 1, 2001, pp. 18-20
Description
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation, in northwestern Montana, and how their land is protected by the State Historic Preservation Office.
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Press Release / Dave Courchene, President / Manitoba Indian Brotherhood / Winnipeg, Manitoba. - 26 June 1969.

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Dave Courchene
Description
This press release expresses the Manitoba Aboriginal organization's "bitterness, frustration and anger" with the Federal Government's "White Paper." Courchene calls for meetings with Aboriginal leaders in Manitoba to present alternatives from the "cultural genocide" he believes will occur if the "White Paper" becomes law.

Historical note:

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Pressing First Nations Issues Ignored in Budget

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
StarPhoenix, February 29, 2008, p. A11
Description
Argues that issues like education, health care and jobs for First Nations are being ignored in the Conservatives third (Feb 2008) Federal Budget.
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Preventing Ecological Decline in the Bras d'Or Bioregion: The State Versus the Mi'kmaq 'Metamorphosis Machine'

Alternate Title
Preventing Ecological Decline in the Bras d'Or Bioregion: The State Versus the Micmac 'Metamorphosis Machine'
Preventing Ecological Decline in the Bras d'Or Bioregion: The State Versus the Mikmaw 'Metamorphosis Machine'
Preventing Ecological Decline in the Bras d'Or Bioregion: The State Versus the Miqmaq 'Metamorphosis Machine'
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William T. Hipwell
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 24, no. 2, 2004, pp. 253-281
Description
Discusses the ecological degradation of the central Bras d'Or Lakes watershed region and the active stance the Mi'kmaq people have taken to implement an integrated management approach to the issue.
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Prince Albert - Indian and Metis

Archival » Archival Items
Description
1 file containing Volume 9, Number 2 of the Saskatchewan Indian magazine; House of Commons debates regarding the protection of Indian treaty; Letter to Hon. Bud Cullen, Minister of Employment and Immigration, from Chief Harold Kingfisher of the Sturgeon Lake Band and Doug Cuthand, requesting that the government explain why the Sturgeon Lake Band has not received any Canada Works funding in the past three years
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Prince Albert River Lots

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Lloyd Rodwell
Saskatchewan History, vol. 19, no. 3, Autumn, 1966, pp. 100-110
Description
Describes the process of surveying and assigning of patents for the river lots in the Prince Albert Settlement; discusses the sale of the land to settlers and land speculators. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 100.
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Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples: Issue 25 - Evidence - October 23, 2012

Alternate Title
Introduction to Métis Scrip
Presentation to the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Frank Tough
Description
Explains the background and operation of the Scrip system which as put in place by the federal government as a way of extinguishing the Métis' Indian title and dealing with the land grant provided by the Manitoba Act, 1870. "41st Parliament, 1st Session (June 2, 2011 - September 13, 2013)"
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[Professor Castellano on Reconciliation. Part 1]

Alternate Title
Symposium on Reconciliation ; Toronto, Ontario February, 2011
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Marlene Brant Castellano
Description
Marlene Brant Castellano, Professor Emeritus at Trent University, speaks at the Symposium on Reconciliation in Toronto, Ontario, February, 2011. Duration: 4:49. Part 1 of 5.
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Progressive Conservative Party - Policy Recommendations-Manitoba MPs

Documents & Presentations
Description
File contains correspondence on policy recommendations to Prime Minister Diefenbaker from Manitoba MPs following his election victory. Includes a letter from MP Robert "Bud" Simpson of the Churchill Constituency in which he states that First Nations problems must be dealt with immediately by the government. Also includes a letter from Walter Dinsdale, Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Veterans Affairs, offering his views on what the government should do to improve the situation facing Canada's First Nations.
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"A Proposed New National Indian Government Delayed"

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Kenny Loon
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 11, no. 7, July 1981, pp. 7-10
Description
Aboriginals across Canada given time to study and understand the proposal of a new self-government model adopted at the Assembly of First Nations in Quebec City, May 18-22, 1981.
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Prospects for a New Middle Class Among Urban Aboriginal People

Alternate Title
Not Strangers in These Parts: Urban Aboriginal People
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Terry Wotherspoon
pp. 147-165
Description
Discusses the concept of new middle classes and its implications in regards to the social interactions, economic possibilities, and political alignments that are affecting Aboriginal people and their relations with both one another and within Canadian society. Chapter from Not Strangers in These Parts: Urban Aboriginal Peoples edited by David Newhouse and Evelyn Peters.
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Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada (PSEPC)

Web Sites » Governmental
Author/Creator
Government of Canada
Description
Federal government site providing links to emergency management and preparedness, national security, community safety, crime prevention, law enforcement and corrections. Responsible for all aspects of safety across Canada, deals with crime, natural disasters, terrorism etc.
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Public Servant Schools in Canada: A Concept for Reconciliation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mark Weiler
The Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, vol. 29, no. 2, June 2017, pp. 1-20
Description
Discusses call to action 57 from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission regarding the provision of education to public servants on the history of Aboriginal peoples and residential schools.
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Quebec Native Women and Bill C-7

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Quebec Native Women Association
Description
Describes issues with Bill C-7 regarding the reporting structure set up by the federal government.
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Quebec Secession and Self-Determination of First Nations

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bradford W. Morse
Native Studies Review, vol. 12, no. 2, 1999, pp. 27-54
Description
Discusses implications for contemporary agreements and relationships between First Nations and federal/provincial governments, should Quebec separate from Canada.
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R. v. Badger, [1996] 1 S.C.R. 771

Alternate Title
Wayne Clarence Badger Appellant v. Her Majesty the Queen Respondent and between Leroy Steven Kiyawasew Appellant [...]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Supreme Court of Canada
Description
Decision or ruling regarding hunting on privately owned land ceded by treaty.
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Race Matters: Sexism, Indigenous Sovereignty, and McIvor

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Martin J. Cannon
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. 23-50
Description
Comments on the case, McIvor v The Registrar, that had the potential to correct the history of sex discrimination in the Indian Act but failed.
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Racism Experiences of Urban Indigenous Women in Ontario, Canada: “We All Have That Story That Will Break Your Heart”

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anita C Benoit
Jasmine Cotnam
Doe O'Brien-Teengs
Saara Green
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, June 18, 2019
Description
Mixed methods research study explores how Indigenous women in two Canadian urban centers experience racism. Findings indicate that participants experience racism in ways that can be classified as individual, collective or institutional, and cultural and rage from historical events to contemporary manifestations.
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Rant and Rave

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Rufus Big Nose
ĆELÁNEN: a Journal of Indigenous Governance, vol. 1, no. 1, 2004, p. [?]
Description
Editorial regarding the 2004 Assembly of First Nations election.
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Re-peopling in a Settler-Colonial Context: The Intersection of Indigenous Laws of Adoption with Canadian Immigration Law

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Amar Bhatia
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 4, Special Issue: Adoption and Indigenous Citizenship Orders, December 2018, pp. 343-353
Description
Authors argues that under systems of treaty relations and Aboriginal law Indigenous peoples have the authority to regulate the way in which they are re-peopled, and that Canadian laws and policies have worked to obscure this authority.
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