Self-Government
Common Table Report: Based upon Discussions among Canada, British Columbia and the First Nations Participating at the Common Table
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
British Columbia (BC) Treaty Commission
Description
Discusses the following identified topics: recognition/certainty, constitutional status of lands, governance, co-management throughout traditional territories, fiscal relations, and fisheries.
Community Action on the Cherokee Reservation in North Carolina
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tamrala Greer Swafford
Indigenous Nations Studies Journal, vol. 5, no. 1, Spring, 2004, pp. 15-25
Description
Looks at the relationship between the Boys Farm Club, the Eastern Cherokees, federal, state and local entities.
Community and Commerce: A Survey of Aboriginal Economic Development Corporations in Ontario
Alternate Title
Research Report (Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business) ; Spring 2013
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business
Environics Research Group
Description
Report builds on research from the 2011 national survey of Aboriginal economic development corporations.
Community and the Administration of Aboriginal Governments: Paper Prepared as Part of the Research Program of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Leslie A. Brown
Description
Looks at tensions and dilemmas which confront governments: social issues such as healing and unity, political issues such as land claims and self-government, accountability, and education and training of administrative staff.
Community-Based Management Development For Aboriginal Self-Government
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nancy Gibson
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 35, no. 1, 2015, pp. 33-43
Description
Describes how the band facilitator employed a community-based approach to implement the Tlicho Management Development Program.
Community Based Research: The Dilemma of Contract
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
M.J. Hedley
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, 1986, pp. 91-105
Description
Describes a multidisciplinary co-operative research program for resource management developed with an aim of ultimately promoting self-determination.
Community Healing and Aboriginal Self-Government
Alternate Title
Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada: Current Trends and Issues
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Josée Lavoie
John D. O'Neil
Jeffrey Reading
Description
Examines implications of self-government in health for improving provision of services and providing a voice in political health systems.
Chapter in book: Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada: Current Trends and Issues edited by J. H. Hylton.
Community Participation in Socio-Legal Control: The Northern Context
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Harald Finkler
Canadian Journal of Criminology, vol. 34, no. 3/4, July-October 1992, pp. 503-512
Description
Looks at the results of micro-urbanization on traditional practices for social control and levels of community involvement.
Community Socio-Economic Development From a Plains Indian Perspective: A Proposed Social Indicator System and Planning Tool
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
René R. Gadacz
Native Studies Review, vol. 7, no. 1, 1991, pp. 53-80
Description
Discusses the Development Indicators Project, detailing a system that was developed to assist Indian communities with managing their own socio-economic and cultural revitalization.
Comparative Assessment of the Position of Indigenous Peoples in Quebec, Canada and Abroad
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Bradford W. Morse
Description
New edition of report provides overview of original and looks at relevant issues in the same countries including demographics, policy, fiscal information, legal framework, land rights and other important issues.
Comparative Governance Structures Among Aboriginal Peoples in Canada
Alternate Title
Fact Sheet (Scow Institute)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
David Schulze
Description
Discusses the self-government issues of legitimacy, power and resources, by using examples of current agreements. The article breaks the areas down in terms of: basic principles, rights through treaties, federal-provincial division of power, status of lands, legislative powers, and funding.
Related Material: Fact Sheet.
Comparing BIA and Tribal Schools With Public Schools: A Look at the Year 1990-91
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
D. Michael Pavel
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 35, no. 1, October 1995, pp. [10-15]
Description
Using Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) data discusses selected sections within the report: Characteristics of American Indian and Alaska Education.
A Comparison of the Community Roles of Indigenous-Operated Criminal Justice Organizations in Canada, the United States, and Australia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marianne O. Nielsen
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 3, 2004, pp. 57-75
Description
Criminal justice organizations of Indigenous peoples in Canada, the United States and Australia are compared and evaluated as to roles played and successes achieved.
Completing Confederation: The Necessary Foundations
Alternate Title
[Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future Forum, November 2016]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Frances Abele
Erin Alexiuk
Satsan (Herb George)
Catherine MacQuarrie
Description
Paper given at the Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future Forum, dialog and conference marking the 20th anniversary of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, November 2-3, 2016.
Compulsive Gambling in the Indian Community: A North Dakota Case Study
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Don A. Cozzetto
Brent W. LaRocque
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 1, 1996, pp. 73-86
Description
Looks at the social price that came with gaming and greater self-government in North Dakota.
The Concept of Crown and Aboriginal Self-Government
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas Isaac
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, 1994, pp. 221-250
Description
Discusses how the concept of the Crown may be useful in efforts to achieve autonomy; with special reference to the Charlottetown Accord.
Conclusion: Land. Labour. Capital.
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Newhouse
Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 4, no. 2, Special Edition: The State of the Aboriginal Economy: 10 Years After RCAP, Fall, 2005, pp. 141-142
Description
Argues that small businesses started by Aboriginal peoples are starting to effect the state of the Aboriginal economy, but that an understanding of Aboriginal aspirations, cultures, and ways of living is needed to create a new society combining Aboriginal and Western ideas.
Confronting Cannabis: Legalization on Native Nation Lands and the Impacts of Differential Federal Enforcement
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Courtney Lewis
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 4, Fall, 2019, pp. 408-438
Description
Author examines the laws and enforcement practices of the United States in relation to Indigenous Nations that choose to legalize medical, recreational, or agricultural cannabis. Article also considers the economic consequences of the legislation and its enforcement.
Conservation Controversy: Sparrow, Marshall, and the Mi'kmaq of Esgenoôpetitj
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sarah J. King
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 2, no. 4, Traditional Knowledge, Spirituality and Lands, 2011, pp. 1-14
Description
Explores traditional beliefs used in conservation management in relation to decisions from the Supreme Court.
Consolidation: First Nations Land Management Act: S.C. 1999, c. 24
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Parliament of Canada
Description
Act allows signatory First Nations the authority to create their own system for making reserve land allotments as well as the authority to deal with matrimonial interests or rights.
Current as of May 12, 2016.
The Constitution Act, 1982, Sections 25 and 35
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kent McNeil
Canadian Native Law Reporter, vol. 1, 1988, pp. 1-13
Description
Explains that the Constitution Act, 1982 does not diminish any of the the rights of Aboriginal peoples guaranteed by earlier Constitutional declarations or Agreements, but it provides additional guarantees.
The Constitution of the White Earth Nation: A New Innovation in a Longstanding Indigenous Literary Tradition
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lisa Brooks
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 23, no. 4, Winter, 2011, pp. [48]-74
Description
Discusses the history of codifying societal and governance practices using examples from various First Nations, and argues that Gerald Vizenor's Constitution is part of this continuum.
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