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Study of the Effectiveness of the Government Alternative Dispute Resolution Process for the Resolution of Indian Residential School Claims

Alternate Title
AANO Committee Report ; 4th, 38th Parliament, 1st Session
Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Committee Report ; 4th, 38th Parliament, 1st Session
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nancy Karetak-LIndell
Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development
Description
Committee came to conclusion that process was both costly and inappropriately applied. Lists reasons for failure, recommendations made by former students and their groups, and eight recommendations from the Committee itself.
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Submission to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Regarding the 5th Periodic Report of Canada

Documents & Presentations
Description
Outlines the economic, social and cultural rights of First Nations peoples and the measures adopted by the government of Canada regarding the rights to self-determination, equal rights of men and women, right to work, right to social security, protection of the family, protection of mother and child, right to an adequate standard of living, right to physical and mental health,and the right to education.
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Suicide and Homicide among Native Americans: The Medical Resources Hypothesis

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas J. Young
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 17, no. 4, 1993, pp. 99-105
Description
Study found a positive correlation between the number of hospital beds and suicide and homicide rates among United States Indian Health Service (IHS) areas. This study puts into question previous studies which found a negative correlation between the same variables.
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A Summary of Current Legislative Amendments Affecting First Nations

Alternate Title
An Act to amend the Interpretation Act
Family Homes on Reserve and Matrimonial Interests or Right Act
First Nations Elections Act
First Nations Financial Transparency Act
First Nations Private Property Ownership Act
First Nations Self-Government Recognition Bill
Safe Drinking Water for First Nations Act
Budget Omnibus Bill no. 1
Budget Omnibus Bill no. 2
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lorraine Land
Liora Zimmerman
Andrea Bradley
Description
Lists 11 pieces of legislation and explains why they are of concern to First Nations.
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Summary Report of the Case Study of South East Child and Family Services Politics and Program: A Case Study of a First Nations Child and Family Service Agency by Pete Hudson

Alternate Title
Politics and Program: A Case Study of a First Nations Child and Family Service Agency
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Joyce B. Timpson
Pete Hudson
Description
Examines internal and intergovernmental relationships through review of documents produced by the agency, its governing body and non-First Nations governments, and key informant interviews.
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Summative Evaluation of the Aboriginal Business Development Program

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Keith Vodden
Janice Cook
Description
Looks at program's impact on Aboriginal businesses, entrepreneurs and financial institutions, as well as broader contributions to sustainable development and enhanced recognition. Information gathered from secondary sources, and interviews with 54 key informants and 13 Aboriginal Business Canada staff members.
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Summative Evaluation of the Elementary/Secondary Education Program on Reserve. Final Report

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Evaluation
Performance Measurement
and Review Branch
Audit and Evaluation Sector
Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC)
Description
Objective of the programming is to provide eligible students living in a First Nations community with education programs comparable to those that are required in provincial schools.
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The Summer of 1990

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs
Description
Reveals findings and recommendations from a hearing surrounding the events that took place at Kanesatake and Kahnawake during the summer of 1990. 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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Survey of Canadian Law: Indian and Native Law

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Richard H. Bartlett
Ottawa Law Review, vol. 15, 1983, pp. 431-502
Description
Reviews legal events from the January 1980 - Fall 1982 period, including the failure of Aboriginal efforts to prevent the passage of the Canada Act in English Courts.
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Suspicions Raised as Bill Takes Odd Route to Become Law

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jennifer Ashawasegai
Windspeaker, vol. 30, no. 9, December 2012, pp. 8-9
Description

Comments on the opposition facing Bill S-2, the Matrimonial Rights and Interest Act.

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

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Sustainability and Vulnerability: Aboriginal Arctic Food Security in a Toxic World

Alternate Title
Breaking Ice: Renewable Resource and Ocean Management in the Canadian North
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Shirley Thompson
Description
Discusses importance of the impact of environmental change on food security due to widespread poverty, contamination causing toxic impacts, and government policies restricting access to land and resources. Chapter 3 from Breaking Ice: Renewable Resource and Ocean Management in the Canadian North edited by Fikret Berkes, Rob Huebert, Helen Fast, Micheline Manseau, Alan Diduck.
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The Ta'an Kwach'an Council: Final Agreement Among the Government of Canada, the Ta'an Kwach'an Council and the Government of the Yukon

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Government of Canada
Ta'an Kwach'an Council
Government of the Yukon
Description
Signed on January 13th, 2002; providing multiparty agreement on aspects of matters relating to: land, reserves, management of settlement lands, land use palnning, water, wildlife, resource royalty sharing
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Tactics at the Interface: Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Managers

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peter S. Hill
John Wakerman
Sally Matthews
Odette Gibson
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 52, no. 3, February 2001, pp. 467-480
Description
Examines obstacles in recruitment, retention and professional development of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health managers in Queensland, Western Australia, and the Northern Territory.
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The Task Force on Museums and First Peoples

Alternate Title
Part III: Repatriation and Protection of First Nations Culture in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Trudy Nicks
University of British Columbia Law Review, no. 2, Special Issue: Material Culture in Flux: Law and Policy of Repatriation of Cultural Property, 1995, pp. [143]-147
Description
Reviews developments since the release of the Task Force report 2 years earlier and the things still required to be done if the recommendations of the report are to be fulfilled.
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Teaching Treaties as (Un)Usual Narratives: Disrupting the Curricular Commonsense

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jennifer A. Tupper
Michael Cappello
Curriculum Inquiry, vol. 38, no. 5, December 2008, pp. 559-577
Description
Examines the importance of treaty education by looking at what students know and understand about treaties and the historical relationship between First Nations and non-First Nations peoples.
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Theorizing Citizenship in British Settler Societies

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Pearson
Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 25, no. 6, November 1, 2002, pp. 989-1012
Description
Discusses concepts of citizenship in the context of colonization and Indigenous peoples and proposes a unique framework at both local and global levels is required.
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Theorizing Political Forgiveness: An Unexpected Response to Apology

Alternate Title
[Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference; 83rd, 2011]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nadine Changfoot
Description
Argues that meaningful reconciliation must take into account the need for social changes based on relationship building between non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal groups.
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Therapies of Freedom: The Colonization of Aboriginal Childhood

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Anne McGillivray
Description
Discusses early authorities' attitudes about the upbringing of Aboriginal children, residential schooling in Canada, judicial responses to culture in child protection cases, and the origin and functioning of intertribal child protection agencies in Manitoba.
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There is No Approach That Will Fit all First Nations

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Shari Narine
Windspeaker, vol. 30, no. 8, November 2012, p. 19
Description

Discusses the necessity of an Education Act that meets the varying needs of children in 634 First Nations communities across Canada.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.27.

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Third Tory Budget Offers Little

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
Leader Post, March 3, 2008, p. A3
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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