Provincial & Territorial

Includes Saskatoon City Council minutes from a meeting on Monday, February 27, 1978 dealing primarily with a report of the Community Liaison Committee regarding a conference entitled "Native people on the Street". The four main topics discussed were 1. Initiating communication between Riversdale residents and community organizations, 2. Clarifying areas of agreement and disagreement on the question of Native-White relations in Saskatoon, 3. Discussing directions for possible solutions, and 4.

Provides recommendations on policies, programs, delivery mechanisms and integrated initiatives in the arts.

Reports on areas in need of improved services: early support and early intervention programing for Aboriginal children; supports for a child-centered approach; and staff training in intercultural understanding.

Reviewed random sample of 69 files. Covers period between April 2010 and December 2013.

Contains sections on: scope, process, interim measures and public information and education.

Commission appointed to make recommendations as to reserved and to be reserved for Indians. Links to detailed reports for each agency and four volume final report.

Mandate was to address Aboriginal issues and a way to negotiate a long term harvesting arrangement.

Overview of feedback and how information was used in the drafting of the final policy.

Survey asked indeterminate, term and casual employees with at least six months of continuous service to rate 55 statements. Twenty-one were benchmark questions common to federal, provincial and territorial government public service Engagement Surveys across Canada. Total of 1,692 respondents participated.

Outlines provincial Strategy of Métis and Off-Reserve First Nations People (MOR) and discusses questions related to issues affecting Aboriginal people.

Purpose of survey conducted from July 17 to 23, 2020 was to assess attitudes, beliefs, and prejudices. Total of 1,002 respondents from across Quebec.

Report of the Saskatchewan Government Private Sector Committee indicating a need for more self-employment programs for Indian and Metis people. Interprovincial Steel and Pipe Corporation Limited (IPSCO) in Regina, SK, proposes a industrial operation with ownership and control in Indian and Metis hands to prepare and process scrap for IPSCO.

Investigated the financial operations of a safe house for sexually exploited youth located in Regina, Saskatchewan. Companion report by the Saskatchewan Children's Advocate: Investigative Report of the Oyate ataya WaKanyeja OwicaKiyapi Inc.

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.

Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2017

Provides a copy of the request sent to Dr. Santiago Canton, January 17, 2012 regarding missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls in British Columbia, Canada.

Compares delivery standards on reserve to those off reserve by looking at funding determination methods and service delivery funding levels.

Resource Management and Environmental Studies Thesis (M.S.)--The University of British Columbia, 2007.

Data for Indigenous and general population on: admissions to care; provincial CYIC (Children and Youth in Care) admissions; new Out-of-Care (OCO) / Agreements; and fatalities.

Examines the active and effective involvement of the Mi'kmaq Nation in the resource management processes in Nova Scotia and the beneficial use of traditional knowledge in conservation and resource use planning.

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.

Contains links to: provincial/territorial resources, National Literacy Secretariat, National Literacy Database, etc.

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.

Lists positive reactions and concerns of the action plan as noted by the BC Association of Social Workers.

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.

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.

"This chapter highlights the importance of not discarding our past but, rather, understanding the actions of social work pioneers within the context of their times and gaining appreciation for their accomplishments". Introduction and Chapter 1 from People, Politics, and Child Welfare in British Columbia edited by Leslie T. Foster and Brian Wharf.

Looks at the potential of fledgling governance directives aimed at Northern empowerment.

Describes the land claims process involved in returning the land to the Island Lake Band.

An analysis of Indigenous women's activists role into the creation of an inquiry into the well beings of Indigenous women in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and in exposes the flaws in the inquiry and the impact to changes they achieved. A chapter from Creating Spaces of Engagement: Policy Justice and the Practical Craft of Deliberative Democracy edited by Leah R. E. Levac and Sarah Marie Wiebe. To access chapter scroll down to page 25.

Describes the establishment of the organization and the environment of the development of broadband telecommunications in northern Saskatchewan. Chapter sixteen from Connecting Canadians: Investigations in Community Informatics edited by Andrew Clement, Michael Gurstein, Graham Longford, Marita Moll, Leslie Regan Shade.

Comments on the challenges faces by northern students attending post secondary education institutions in southern Canada.

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.

Paper Commissioned for the Minister's National Working Group on Education, October 2002.

Provides background and description of agreement, analysis of major court decisions, information on programs currently delivered by Metis organizations, and identifies areas where greater supports are needed but funding has been inadequate.

Describes ways in which IQ has been integrated into the operations, structures and policies of Nunavut.

Discusses the failure of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) in 1927 to consider the perspectives of the Inuit, Innut, and Algonquian peoples when resolving the question of the border between Newfoundland and Quebec in the Labrador region. Highlights this practice as a reflection of Canada’s colonial past and how the inclusion of Indigenous knowledge would have changed the process.

Focuses on Commission's recommendations for dealing with, "The Indian people in the North of Ontario" and suggests circumstances and time may have eliminated any impact the recommendations could have achieved.

Looks at how promotion of Aboriginal cultures serves to further the Government's tourism efforts and how Aboriginal peoples have responded in an effort to exercise control over how they and their cultures are represented.

Photocopy of two newspaper clippings on one page. The Riel's Diary article from 27 April 1971 states that Saskatchewan Ross Thatcher's Liberal government wasn't interested in the $26,500 purchase price of Riel's purported diary; article from the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. The second article celebrates the 103th birthday of Solomon Pritchard of Cando, SK, who was an eyewitness of the Frog Lake massacre in 1885; newspaper unknown.

Guide in the six stage process of developing a treaty.

Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Trent University, 2015.

Examines northerners' viewpoints on how the Arctic Council might be enhanced to better serve the Circumpolar World.