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Report on Indian Affairs

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Joseph Howe
Description
Report written by Joseph Howe, primarily concerning the Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia. Statistics provided document the decrease in the Indigenous population; information regarding plans for reserves; education; etc.
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Report on the Audit of the North Peace Tribal Council Policing Agreement

Alternate Title
[Project no.] 310-2110-01
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Department of the Solicitor General of Canada
Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada
Description
Objectives were to ensure claimed expenditures that have been incurred are in accordance with the Agreement and other guidelines.
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Report on the Findings on an Alleged Promise of Government to Finance the Return of Inuit at Resolute and Grise Fiord to Their Original Homes at Port Harrison (Inukjuak) and Pond Inlet

Alternate Title
[Claims and Historical Research Centre ; vol. 12]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Marc M. Hammond
Description
Relates to the federal government's relocation of 92 Inuit to the High Arctic to assert the country's sovereignty over the area, and its promise that they could return to their home communities in two years if they no longer wished to stay.
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Report on the Prevention of Miscarriages of Justice: FPT Heads of Prosecutions Committee Working Group

Alternate Title
FPT Heads of Prosecutions Committee Report of the Working Group on the Prevention of Miscarriages of Justice
E-Books
Author/Creator
D. A. Bellemare
Rob Finlayson
Description
Report has recommendations for the creation of a separate community controlled justice system for Aboriginal peoples. Report also includes information on the Donald Marshall, Jr., prosecution.
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Report on the Regina Urban Dialog: June 5, 2003

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Government Relations & Aboriginal Affairs Division
Description
Outlines provincial Strategy of Métis and Off-Reserve First Nations People (MOR) and discusses questions related to issues affecting Aboriginal people.
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[Report Says Innu are the World's Most Suicide-Ridden People]

Alternate Title
The National ; November 8, 1999
[Davis Inlet: World's Most Suicide-Ridden People]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Darrow MacIntyre
Napes Ashini
Brian Tobin
Description
Discusses a report released by Survival International, an Indigenous rights organization, which states that the Innu are under continual assault by the Canadian Government. Duration: 3:17.
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Report: The Aboriginal Justice Research Project

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Vivien Carli
Description
Responding to the increasing number of Aboriginal people in Montreal coming into contact with the criminal justice system this study looks at over-reliance of imprisonment and lack of programming regarding a prevention approach.
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Report to Parliament on the Design of a Collaborative Process on Indian Registration, Band Membership and Fist Nation Citizenship

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Government of Canada
Description
Process to take place as a result of the decision in Descheneaux c. Canada (Procureur général) which ruled on sex-based inequities in Indian registration affecting first cousins and siblings that were carried forward in the 1985 and 2010 amendments to the Indian Act. Bill S-3, the government's response, extends entitlement to status to people omitted from historic list.
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Representations of Indigenous Peoples and Use of Pain Medication in Canadian News Media

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sarah E. Nelson
Annette J. Browne
Josée G. Lavoie
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 7, no. 1, January 2016, pp. 1-26
Description
Study shows differences in use of language, tone, information sources, and information left out when media portrays First Nations and non-First Nations individuals and communities.
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Representing Aboriginal Self-Government and First Nations/State Relations: Political Agency and the Management of the Boreal Forest in Eeyou Istchee

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Daniel Salée
Carole Lévesque
International Journal of Canadian Studies, no. 41, Representations of First Nations and Métis / Les représentations des Premiéres Nations et des Métis, 2010, pp. 99-135
Description
Looks at strategies Indigenous peoples use to deal with state power and suggests an alternative way.
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Request for the City of Saskatoon to send a Representative to Batoche

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
City of Saskatoon
Description
Includes Saskatoon City Council minutes from a meeting on Tuesday, February 19, 1980 regarding a request from Parks Canada that a representative of the City attend an open house on the direction of future developments at Batoche National Historic Site.
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Research and Outcomes at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James R. Miller
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 100, no. 2, June 2019, pp. 163-181
Description
Author discusses the research outcomes and the policy influence of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC); speculates on some of the factors that limited the influence of the TRC including opposition from interest groups and the structure of the commission itself.
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Reserve 107: Reconciliation on the Prairies

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Rebel Sky Media
Brad Leitch
Adrienne Leitch
Mennonite Central Committee Saskatchewan
St. John's Lutheran Church
Description
Documentary about the Federal government's seizure of the Young Chippewayan Band's land and the subsequent sale of it to settlers and the relationship which develops between the Band and the people of Laird, Saskatchewan as they work together to resolve the issue. Duration: 32:33.
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Reserve Home a Legacy for Kids, Not Investment

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
Star-Phoenix, May 09, 2008, p. A11
Description
Argues that the First Nations Market Housing Fund (FNMHF), athough it may help alleviate some housing concerns, is inadequate due to overly optimistic household financial assumptions.
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The Residential Schools Litigation Process

Alternate Title
Assessing the Indian Residential Schools Litigation and Settlement Processes, Session 2
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Celeste Poltak
James Scott
Mitchell Taylor
Bruce Feldthusen
Terrence McMahon
Description
Plaintiffs', church, and government representatives as well a judge and academic speak about the process. Session Two from public conference Assessing the Indian Residential Schools Litigation and Settlement Processes. Duration: 1:19:03.
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Resolve Native Issues to Salvage UN Rankings

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
StarPhoenix, April 15, 2005, p. A11
Description
Advocates increased funding to reduce poverty and improve aboriginal conditions, allowing Canada to maintain high rankings given by the UN human development index.
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Resource Development in Canada: A Case Study on the Ring of Fire

Alternate Title
Background Paper (Parliamentary Information and Research Service) ;
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jed Chong
Description
Looks at the location, size and geology of the area, federal jurisdiction, economic benefits of mining development, ecosystem sensitivity and infrastructure, and initiatives by the federal and provincial governments. "Revised 29 May 2014."
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A Resource Kit to Assist Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists in Providing Informed Services to First Nations, Inuit, and Métis People

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elizabeth Kay-Raining Bird
Canadian Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, vol. 38, no. 2, Service Delivery to First Nations, Inuit and Métis in Canada: Part 2, Summer, 2014, pp. 238-250
Description
Presents information on how to provide culturally and linguistically correct services in Ontario. Divided into professional associations, federal and provincial websites, websites for national Aboriginal organizations and historical content of Indigenous languages, health and education of Aboriginal population and cultural sensitivity.
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Resources for First Nations, Métis, and Northern Citizens

Web Sites » Governmental
Author/Creator
Government of Saskatchewan
Description
Website has links to: community businesses, information on duty to consult, economic development, tax programs and bulletins, initiatives, directory, federal benefits and rights, and treaty land.
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Responding to the Homeless Crisis

Alternate Title
Pressure Point
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Brad Newcombe
Judy Graves
John Van Luven
Description
Discussion with the Manager of Vancouver Tennant Assistance Program and Executive Director of St. James Society Community Services on the agencies available to address the needs of Vancouver's homeless people. Duration: 27:40.
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Response to Canada's Apology to Residential School Survivors

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Beverley Jacobs
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 26, no. 3/4, Indigenous Women in Canada: The Voices of First Nations, Inuit and Metis Women, Winter/Spring, 2008, pp. 223-225
Description
President of the Native Women's Association of Canada's statement given before the House of Commons after government's apology was read.
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Responses of Canada to the List of Issues and Questions with Regard to the Consideration of Canada's Sixth and Seventh Reports on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

Alternate Title
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Pre-Session Working Group, Forty-second Session, 20 October-7 November 2008
[Responses to the List of Issues and Questions with Regard to the Consideration of the Combined Sixth and Seventh Periodic Reports: Canada]
[United Nations' Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Government of Canada
Description
Many of the questions refer specifically to Aboriginal women: violence against, missing or murdered, participation in governance, education, employment, Indian status, matrimonial real property, etc.
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Restoring the Lifeblood: Water, First Nations and Opportunities for Change: Background Report

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Merrell-Ann Phare
Description
Scopes main barriers and opportunities with regard to First Nations and the management and state of their waters, and discusses the role that philanthropy might play in building resilience, sustainability and capacity. Topics include context of water use in Canada, water challenges facing First Nations, and possible program and project development initiatives.
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Resurging through Kishiichiwan: The Spatial Politics of Indigenous Water Relations

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michelle Daigle
Decolonization, vol. 7, no. 1, Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Water, 2018, pp. 159-172
Description
Discusses the Mushkegowuk people’s relationship to water and how it has been ruptured in the interests of extractive industries and economic development. Also discusses efforts to reconnect with and protect waterways.
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Rethinking Reconciliation: Thoughts on the Canadian Government's Initiatives to Reconcile the State-Indigenous Relationship

Alternate Title
[Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference; 83rd, 2011]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Michelle Honkanen
Description
Argues that Canada must begin to develop trusting, long-term and collaborative relationships with Indigenous people in the spirit of the treaties in order for reconciliation to take place.
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Review Article: Aboriginal Self-Government

Alternate Title
Aboriginal Self-Government
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Frank Cassidy
Canadian Public Administration, vol. 32, no. 1, Spring, 1989, pp. [135]-137
Description
Book reviews of: Aboriginal Self-Government Arrangements in Canada by Evelyn J. Peters, Completing Canada: Inuit Approaches to Self-Government by the Inuit Committee on National Issues, and Future Issues of Jurisdiction and Cooperation between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Governments by Ian B. Cowie.
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