Commissions & Inquiries

Looks at international literature on victims of trauma and truth commissions and discusses whether testimony can achieve healing.

Associate producer of Going Home Star: Truth and Reconciliation speaks about the production performed by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet which was based on stories told by survivors. Duration: 14:03.

Report on a National Forum on Reconciliation marking the 20th anniversary of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Looks at developing set of recommendations for all sectors of society to move forward in the future.

Examines truth commissions in general and specifically the Truth and Reconciliation and states that compensation will only work if the government is open to alternative context-specific forms of justice.

Looks at possible causes of suppression of emotion in aboriginal populations.

Interview with an Inuk artist, writer and curator from Labrador. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 56.

Introduction to some of the main themes and conclusions in the final report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

Commission looked into the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's killing of sled dogs during the 1950s and 1960s. Focuses on how the inquiry combined written research with oral testimony to produce its final report.

Article details the formation of the Western Shoshone National Council and their role in resisting the ruling of the Indian Claims Commission that the Indian title on their traditional territories was extinguished in the late 19th century.

Focuses on three aspects of the Commission's research: the fact that the Commission had its origins in litigation, the methodological issues concerning collection of archival documents and survivors' statements, and that the narrative does not pay a great deal of attention to differences within the system.

Interdisciplinary Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Victoria, 2007.

Examines colonization of Canada, historical trauma, the criminal justice system and community healing programs. Duration: 37:21. Related material: Discussion Guide.

Looks at connection between Indigenous oral history and historiography described in a Waitangi Tribunal report released from the Whanganui River Inquiry.

Summary report contains 94 recommendations.

Discusses the water supply project, the National Inquiry into Racist Violence, and Baryulgil asbestos problems.

Focuses on Canadian commissions of inquiry that have dealt with Aboriginal issues. Duration: 53:49.

Presentation on the history of a series of nutrition experiments conducted on residential school students between 1948 and 1952. Duration: 49:34.

Introduction to the new chair, Justice Frank Iacobucci, of the First Nations Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

In a ruling of 2-1, the ICC found that Canada did not breach it's fiduciary obligation, with one Commissioner recommending Canada negotiate the claim.

FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Includes maps, reports, historical documents, transcripts, correspondence, and oral and written submissions in regards to the 1906 Cowessess Surrender Claim. [These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]

Book review of: #Idlenomore and the Remaking of Canada by Ken Coates.

Exhibit focuses on the evolution of government responsibilities and policies.

Presents a speech delivered by Susan Aglukark to the Royal Commission for Aboriginal Peoples regarding the Inuit relocation program. This article helps to explain difficulties artists have challenging programs that do not meet their needs. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 5.

Author discusses his works, Aboriginal Curatorial Collective Meeting and Aboriginal Advisory Circle Meeting within the context of irreconcilable spaces of Aboriginality. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll down to appropriate page.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Committee to look at report and travel around Australia talking to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people about state and territory implementation of recommendations.

Address given by Lloyd I. Barber, Vice-President, University of Saskatchewan and Indian Claims Commissioner, at the Banff School of Advanced Management. It addresses the general background of Aboriginal grievances and provides some thoughts on the implications of their settlement. Item found in folder Indian Land Claims, 1973, 1974.

Contains suggestions for change to current approaches of the process to enable the original intent of be realized.

Discusses that while a national apology has been welcomed by many Indigenous Australians, the work towards achieving social justice still remains.

Looks at different evaluations of the idea of reconciliation that mask assimilation or governmental efforts to look good and why the real concept should not be abandoned.

Argues that The Stolen Generations narratives is one subset of a huge autobiographical narrative.

Examines the resignation of the chairperson on the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

File contains an extract from an address by Diefenbaker to establish an Indian Claims Commission

File containing series of newspaper articles regarding the Indian Act and revisions thereof, issues regarding reserve land, anger among the Six Nations, research into indigenous living conditions and discrimination, control of mineral rights, integration into the public school system and society at large, the "Indian Council of Canada", the Indian Claims Commission, community development, the National Indian Council of Canada, Indigenous press,law enforcement on reserves, citizenship rights and treaty rights, band mergers, the Inuit, education, services (and provincial control thereof) represe

Folder includes a report entitled "Memorial on Indian Affairs" relating to the establishment of a Royal Commission on Indian Affairs and which speaks on various issues relating to improving the indigenous standard of living, and correspondence relating to enfranchisement.

File containing series of newspaper clippings relating to the Indian Claims Commission, as well as a mention in the throne speech on same.

Overview of 1994-1995 activities of the Indian Specific Claims Commission (ICC), an independent body of inquiry whose mandate includes review of rejected federal claims. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Overview of the Indian Claims Commission's activities for the year including inquiries and reports, special initiatives and plans for the next 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.]

Overview of the Indian Claims Commission activities for the year including inquiries and reports, mediation and facilitation, special projects and initiatives, and plans for the coming 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.]

Overview of the activities of the Indian Claims Commission for the year including inquiries, reports, special projects, status of claims and summary of claims. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Overview of the Indian Claims Commission activities for the year, including inquiries, reports, special projects and initiatives, as well status and summary of claims. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Overview of the Indian Claims Commission activities for the year, including status of claims, summary of claims, inquiry reports, inquiries and mediation and facilitation.

Overview of the Indian Claims Commission's activities for the year including inquiries and reports, special initiatives and plans for the next 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.]

Overview of the Indian Claims Commission's activities for the year including inquiries and reports, special initiatives and plans for the next 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.]

Overview of the Indian Claims Commission's activities for the year including inquiries and reports, special initiatives and plans for the next 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.]

Chronology of the events leading the establishment ot the Indian Claims Commission in 1991. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Mediation process as it was before the Indian Claims Commission was shut down.
"As directed by Order in Council P.C. 2007-1789, the Commission must cease all its activities, including those related to mediation, by March 31, 2009." [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]