Aboriginal Title

Explains how two Canadian court cases provide support for Aboriginal title, in common law, in Australia.

Adult Education, Counseling Psychology and Community Development Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Toronto, 2000.

Examines the potential impact of the landmark decision by the Supreme Court confirming Aboriginal title in British Columbia.

Agreement signed at Quebec on March 31, 2004.

Comments on whether the Inuit of Nunavut fulfil several criteria of the common law test for Aboriginal title of the Island.

Humanities Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, Dominguez Hills, 2003.

Land Resources Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1998.

Book review of: All That We Say Is ours by Ian Gill.

Indigenous Governance Project (M.A.) -- University of Victoria, 2006.

Discusses the two most influential environmental assessments; the Berger Inquiry (Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry) and BEARP (Beaufort Sea Environmental Assessment and Review Process) as well as the Great Whale River Hydroelectric Project in Northern Quebec and the Ekati Diamond Mine in NWT.

Discusses reconciliatory gestures in non-Aboriginal Australia. Uses The Sea of Hands, a mobile sculpture and Trepang, an opera as examples.

Explains that the Native Title Act 1993 now requires that all claims be lodged to the Federal Court of Australia before being referred to the National Native Title Tribunal.

File contains an article from the Globe and Mail involving the Indian Brotherhood of the Northwest Territories' claim on the western portion of the North West Territories.

Reviews differences between European and Indigenous spiritual perspectives regarding the secular and sacred relationship with land.

Argues that Native title rights in minerals, including rights to commercially exploit those minerals, may exist.

Discussion of the Australian High Court decision of Mabo (No. 2).

Presents an introduction to Aboriginal title and how it is a collective right by an Aboriginal group for the exclusive use of occupation of land which may, or may not, be traditional use.

Author explores the consequences of imaging the nation in a fantasy way by reading the formative Australian cases through which Native jurisprudence developed in Australia.

Common Law Thesis (LL.D)--University of Ottawa, 2012.

Authors reproduce an email conversation about race, racialism, and racism in Archaeological practice in the United States that occurred between Indigenous Archaeologists; and further discuss the issues raised in the conversation.

Gives the legislative history of Bill C-37; legislation that facilitates land claim settlements, particularily those resolving treaty land entitlement and specific claims.

Discusses the Bradley Bill as it relates to the Black Hills land dispute between the United States government and the Sioux Nation.

Illustrates the history of the Sioux Nation and United States government's legal relationship, the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, and the protection of the Black Hills for Sioux people.

Looks at the validity of surrender of reserve land and the nature of the duty of the Crown prior to surrender. Supreme Court Reports at page 344 to 409. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Book review of: Unjust Relations: Aboriginal Rights in Canadian Courts edited by Peter Kulchyski.

Book review of: Your Land is Our Land: Aboriginal Land Rights by Kenneth Maddock.

Book reviews of 10 books: An Overview of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights and Compensation for their Breach by Robert Mainville. Black Elk Lives: Conversations With the Black Elk Family by Esther Black Elk DeSersa, Olivia Black Elk Pourier, Aaron DeSersa Jr., Clifton DeSersa. Black Elk Speaks, Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux told through John G. Neihardt (Flaming Rainbow) by Nicholas Black Elk. Choctaws at the Crossroads: The Political Economy of Class and Culture in the Oklahoma Timer Region by Sandra Faiman-Silva.

Shows how the Delgamuukw v. the Queen identified the authority of traditional hereditary chiefs to represent their communities against the state.

Looks at historical, moral and legal claims by the Nishga.

Argues that Aboriginal title had never been extinguished in territories around Nass River Valley, Observatory Inlet, Portland Inlet and the Portland Canal, in northwestern British Columbia.

Notes that Australia is the only former British colony to not recognize Aboriginal title to land.

Looks at the historical relationship between the Canadian State and indigenous peoples' resistance to capitalism.

Brief discussion of Canada's Comprehensive Land Claims policy in response to the Supreme Court of Canada's landmark decision in the case Tsilhqot'in v. British Columbia.

Contains copies or extracts of representations to the Secretary of State and/or the Colonial Office, on behalf of the settlers on the Grand River, and allegations of squatters on Indian Lands, in Upper Canada.

Legal Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2007.

Agreement that transfers ownership of traditional lands to the Nisga'a and affirms their right to self-government.

Presents full themed issue focused on the lasting legacy of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 and how it defined North American politics.

Discussion on Canadian land rights, self-government including the Cree-Naskapi (of Quebec) Act, constitutional initiatives and possible future directions.

Study gives an assessment of environmental and socio-economic impacts of the pipeline, overview of infringement on Aboriginal title and rights by the pipeline, and concerns voiced by the Carrier Sekani community.

Results of the 1988 claim under the Federal Specific Claims Policy which challenged the validity of the 1905 surrender of 5,760 acres of land from the Assiniboine Reserve No. 76. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Comments on a case that revolves around the land clauses in the Manitoba Act, 1870.

Argues that the Australia v Ward & Ors court case is an important case regarding the extinguishment of Native title under the Native Title Act 1993.