Aboriginal Title

Explains the status and inquiry process of some 57 claims before the Commission. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Report reveals the Indian Claims Commission's recommendations to the Federal Government for 2006-2007, as well as background on the seven inquiries completed during the year. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Includes reports for Athabasca Denesuline Inquiry, the Fond du Lac claim, Black Lake and Hatchet Lake First Nations; Lax Kw'alaams Indian Band Inquiry and claim, Young Chipeewayan Inquiry, claim regarding Stoney Knoll Indian Reserve No. 107, Micmacs of Gesgapegiag Inquiry, claim to Horse Island, Chippewas of the Thames Inquiry, Muney Land Claim.

Reports include the Athabasca Denesuline Inquiry, Lax Kw'alaams Indian Band Inquiry, Young Chipeewayan Inquiry, Micmacs of Gesgapegiag Inquiry, Chippewas of the Thames Inquiry and responses from the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Reports include 'Namgis and Nak'azdli First Nations and the Mamaleleqala Qwe'Qwa'Sot'Enox Band McKenna-McBride Applications Inquiry. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Reports include the Blood Tribe / Kainaiwa Inquiry, Duncan's First Nation Inquiry, Long Plain First Nation Inquiry and the Bigstone Cree Nation Inquiry. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Reports include the Key First Nation Inquiry, the Walpole Island First Nation Inquiry and the Carry the Kettle First Nation Inquiry. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Reports include the Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation Inquiry, the Peguis First Nation Inquiry and the Cowessess First Nation Inquiry. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Reports include the Esketemc First Nation Inquiry, the Fishing Lake First Nation, Chippewas of the Thames First Nation Inquiry and the Mistawasis First Nation Inquiry. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Reports include Kahkewistahaw First Nation 1907 Surrender Claim (Mediation), Alexis First Nation Inquiry, Chippewa Tri-Council Inquiry, Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation Inquiry and the Canupawakpa Dakota First Nation Inquiry. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Includes the following reports: Carry the Kettle First Nation 1905 Surrender Inquiry, Neskonlith, Adams Lake and Little Shuswap Indian Bands, Neskonlith Douglas Reserve Inquiry, Nadleh Whut'en First Nation Lejac School Inquiry, Sturgeon Lake First Nation 1913 Surrender Inquiry, Red Earth and Shoal Lake Cree Nations Quality of Reserve Lands Inquiry, Muskowekwan First Nation 1910 and 1920 Surrender Inquiry and the Michipicoten First Nation Pilot Project (Mediation).[This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down

Looks at the process of eviction, of Indigenous peoples, from lands that the American government itself had previously "secured" for them.

Argues that a consistent, fair, and equitable policy of land restoration, in the United States, is the only way to resolve Indigenous land claims.

Discussion on organized Native response formed to force a judicial decision on land claims and protect Aboriginal rights.

Examines the principles and finances of the Indian Specific Claims Commission (ISCC) operations and presents the Departmental Performance Report. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Law Thesis (LL.M.)--University of Alberta, 2004.

Book review of: Indian Treaty-Making Policy in the United States and Canada, 1867-1877 by Jill St. Germain.

Addresses the question of involving anthropologists in political and legal matters between the First Nations and the government of Canada, as in the Delgamuukw case.

Looks at the relationship between land, law and Canadian sovereignty.

Comments on the mentoring experiences of 13 Native American college students.

Framing the issue in this manner refocuses the debate to help secure control over their economic, social, cultural, and physical survival.

Presents a listing of online issues concerning Australia's Indigenous peoples and the law.

Examines Roque Roldán Ortiga’s six criteria for judging the quality of a particular land and resources rights regime with regards to Indigenous governments; and looks at how those criteria can be used to measure the degree to which Aboriginal peoples in Canada have been successful with their struggle to have of their land, resource and other rights recognized.

Discussion of the principle in international law that Indigenous people should be consulted when there is a decision that affects them.

Looks at traditional knowledge as a living system of information management which has its roots in ancient traditions, and looks at how the Western legal traditional knowledge is virtually unprotected.

Discussion, including case law, about several property systems including the certificates of possession (CP) system.

Links to summaries on a variety topics such as individual claims, Aboriginal title, frequently asked questions and funding.

Looks at the interpretation of colonial archival records pertaining to contemporary Aboriginal rights.

Identifies issues for discussion at First Nation regional workshops on pesticide consultation.

Legal Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1995.

Introduces issue which focuses on the British Columbia Supreme Court's use of materials from historians and anthropologists in Delgamuukw v. B.C. case.

Presents available information on rights, traditional territory, and site specific issues for assessing risks associated with oil and gas development in remote areas.

Reports previous and current Inuit land use in Manitoba in support of the Inuit Aboriginal claim in northeastern corner of the province.

Provides an overview of the approach to the analysis of oral tradition and the judge's dismissal of accepted principles of research.

Discusses Aboriginal law, treaties and rights with examples of duty to consult cases.

Examines whether or not native title is proprietary right, and looks at the landmark case Mabo v. Queensland.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Western Ontario, 1998.

Examines the Indian Agent's efforts to manage failures and contradictions of Indian administration and the Secwepemc resistance to departmental intervention.

Examines the conclusions reached by by judge, Allan McEachern in Reasons For Judgment.

Book One: Northwest Territories First Nations Settlement Areas.

Book Two: Northwest Territories Inuvialuit Settlement Region Lands

Book Three: Northwest Territories Nunavut Settlement Area Lands

Book Four: Other Yukon Territory Federal Lands

Book One: Yukon First Nations Settlement Areas

Book Three: Yukon Inuvialuit Settlement Region Lands.

Presents guidelines for the jurisdictional framework of the territories.

Looks at Aboriginal title with focus on the Supreme Court of Canada decisions in R. v. Marshall and R. v. Bernard.

Film about the historic confrontation at Kanehsatake and the village of Oka, Québec in the summer of 1990 when the mayor of Oka agreed to appropriate sacred Mohawk land for a private golf course. This film contains scenes of violence. Duration: 119:24.