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Women Leaders on Leadership: Much to Laud, Much to Lament

Alternate Title
Executive Action (Conference Board of Canada) ; June 2006
[Conference Board of Canada Publication ; 014-07]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Conference Board of Canada
Description
Discussion on issues of poverty, health care, education, skills training and the labour shortage, foreign policy, and the environment.
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Writing Water, Writing Life: Silko as Environmental Activist

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christina Boyles
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 10-35
Description
Examines author Leslie Marmon Silko’s post-1990 works, Almanac of the Dead, Sacred Waters, Gardens in the Dunes, and Oceanstory in the context of a growing focus on water scarcity and sovereignty; highlights Aboriginal and Native American perspective on the privatization of water for profit, and neocolonial and imperial interests.
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A Written Response from Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Leo J. Omani
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 1/2, Winter/Spring, 2004, pp. 283-288
Description
Discusses the commemorative march of 2002, and recounts the 1862 forced removal of the Dakota people from their Minnesota homeland.
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Yesterday’s Promises: The Negotiation of Treaty Ten

Alternate Title
Yesterday’s Promises: The Negotiation of Treaty 10
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anthony G. Gulig
Saskatchewan History, vol. 50, no. 1, Spring, 1998, pp. 25-39
Description
Describes the process through which the Treaty 10 was negotiated and the underlying motives of the Canadian government, the Cree people and the Dené people. Discusses differences in opinion about the rights and enshrined therein, and the government’s prosecution of Indigenous harvesters. Entire issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 25.
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You Are on Indian Land

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Mort Ransen
Description
Film reports on the 1969 demonstration and confrontation on the St. Regis Reserve (Akwesasne) and the international bridge between Canada and the United States near Cornwall, Ontario. This film contains scenes of violence. Viewer discretion is advised. Duration: 36:48.
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The Young Chipeewayan Inquiry: Into the Claim Regarding Stoney Knoll Indian Reserve No. 107

E-Books
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
Historical background, analyses and submission to Indian Claims Commission (ICC) regarding the unlawful surrender of their reserve. ICC recommended further research be conducted on their membership. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
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Yukon’s Self Governing First Nations

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Marian C. Horne
Canadian Parliamentary Review, vol. 33, no. 2, Summer, 2010, pp. 2-7
Description
Looks at how the self-government agreements have changed the face of governance in the Yukon and altered the relationship between the governments of First Nations, Yukon and Canada.
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