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Inuit Attitudes towards Co-Managing Wildlife in Three Communities in the Kivalliq Region of Nunavut, Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nils A.A. Lokken
Douglas A. Clark
Else G. Broderstad
Vera H. Hausner
Arctic, vol. 72, no. 1, March 31, 2019, pp. 58-70
Description
Study uses mixed-methods interview to collect feedback from members of the communities of Igluligaarjuk (Chesterfield Inlet), Tikirarjuaq (Whale Cove), and Qamani’tuaq (Baker Lake) on wildlife co-management programs. Found that while most programs are working well and supported by local communities, there is significant conflict in regard to polar bear management.
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[Justice Binnie on Reconciliation. Part 1]

Alternate Title
Symposium on Reconciliation ; Toronto, Ontario February, 2011
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Ian Binnie
Description
Honourable Justice Ian Binnie, Supreme Court of Canada, speaks at the Symposium on Reconciliation in Toronto, Ontario, February, 2011. Duration: 5:46. Part 1 of 5.
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Kruger and al. v. The Queen, [1978] 1 S.C.R. 104

Alternate Title
Kruger and al. v. The Queen, [1978] 1 Supreme Court Reports 104
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Supreme Court of Canada
Description
Case regarding the shooting of a deer during closed season. This case deals with the Wildlife Act of 1966 and the Indian Act of 1970.
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"A Liberal and Paternal Spirit": Indian Agents and Native Fisheries in Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dorothee Schreiber
Ethnohistory, vol. 55, no. 1, Winter, 2008, pp. 87-118
Description
Analyzes Indian Agents' responses in 1897 about administrative decisions and confrontations about fishing places, gear, licences and "closed-season" fishing by First Nations; argues Agents conserved fish for settlers and assimilated First Nation fishers into state management practices and extending so-called privileges.
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Making First Nation Law: The Listuguj Mi’gmaq Fishery

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
National Centre for First Nations Governance; Native Nations Institute for Leadership
Management
and Policy
Description
Chronicles the genesis, application and effects of the Listuguj Mi’gmaq First Nation Government Law on Fisheries and Fishing which governs salmon fishing on the Restigouche Rivers and supersedes provincial and federal authority.
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Métis Harvesting Rights in Canada: R v Powley

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jean Teillet
Indigenous Law Bulletin, vol. 5, no. 12, October 2001, p. 72
Description
The Ontario Court of Appeal hears a case regarding the Métis right to hunt, as protected in s. 35 of the Canadian Constitution.
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Metis Harvesting Rights Upheld in Ontario Court

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Joan Taillon
Windspeaker, vol. 19, no. 12, April 2002, p. 9
Description

Comments on how the Metis successfully attained the right to hunt and fish for food in Ontario.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.9.

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Métis Law in Canada, 2010

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jean Teillet
Description
Provides overview of Métis history, reviews significant agreements and legislation, indexes case law summaries and discusses new developments.
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Métis Law Summary 2008

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jean Teillet
Description
Provides overview of Métis history, reviews significant agreements and legislation, indexes case law summaries and discusses new developments.
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Métis Law Summary 2009

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jean Teillet
Description
Provides overview of Métis history, reviews significant agreements and legislation, indexes case law summaries and discusses new developments.
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Mi'kmaq Treaties on Trial: History, Land, and Donald Marshall Junior

Alternate Title
Mi'kmaq Treaties on Trial: History, Land, and Donald Marshall Jr.
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Arthur J. Ray
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 84, no. 1, March 2003, pp. 101-104
Description
Book review of: Mi'kmaq Treaties on Trial: History, Land, and Donald Marshall Junior by William C. Wicken.
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Michigan Indian Treaties and the Asian Carp

Alternate Title
Indigenous Law & Policy Center Occasional Paper Series
Indigenous Law & Policy Center Working Paper ; 2010-05
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Erin Lillie
Indigenous Law & Policy Center Working Paper
Description
Comments on the risk to Native American treaty rights if Asian carp enter the Great Lakes and wipe out existing fish stocks.
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Minnesota v. Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kari Krogseng
Ecology Law Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 3, August 2000, pp. 771-797
Description
1998 United States Supreme Court decision ruling in favour of Mille Lacs Band's right to co-manage wildlife resources with state agencies.
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Native Minorities and Ethnic Conflict in Canada

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jean Leonard Elliott.
Current History, vol. 66, no. 392, 1974, pp. 177-181
Description
This article places the issue of the James Bay Project for the development of hydroelectric power into a historical and political perspective and discusses its effects upon the Aboriginals of Quebec.
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Netukulimk Past and Present: Míkmaw Ethics and the Atlantic Fishery

Alternate Title
Netukulimk Past and Present: Mi'kmaq Ethics and the Atlantic Fishery
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Russel Lawrence Barsh
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 37, no. 1, Spring, 2002, pp. 15-43
Description
Discusses Míkmaw treaty hunting, fishing and trading rights and self regulation of fishing.
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New Ethos - New Solutions: Indigenous Negotiation of Co-operative Environmental Management Agreements in Washington State

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Helen Ross
Australian Indigenous Law Reporter, vol. 4, no. 2, 1999, p. 16
Description
Discusses how Indigenous people in Washington State have established a new ethos in environmental management of collaborating with industry, government and environmental groups to solve their concerns.
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