Indian Act

Presentation from International Women's Day, March 8, 2014. Discusses recommendations from the report Invisible Women: A Call to Action. A Report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Canada.

Reply to Jesse Russell's criticisms of approach to culture and class in the author's article, "The Development of Capitalism and the Subjugation of Native Women in Northern Canada".

Focus on four regimes: customary rights, certificates of possession under the Indian Act, First Nations Land Management Act, and leases.

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

Historical background, submissions and recommendations from Indian Claims Commission (ICC) hearing to determine if surrender was valid, complied with the provisions of the Indian Act and whether Canada's fiduciary obligations were met. ICC found that although the surrender was valid and unconditional, Canada had breached its pre-surrender fiduciary obligations in allowing it to take place. Commissioners include: P.E. James Prentice and Roger J. Augustine.

Historical background and issues involved in Indian Claims Commission (ICC) hearing to determine the validity of the 1907 surrender. Commissioners include: P.E. James Prentice and Roger J. Augustine. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Historical background and submissions to Indian Claims Commission (ICC) regarding whether the surrender was valid; whether Canada breached its fiduciary obligations. ICC found the surrender valid; that Canada breached its fiduciary duties; and the claim be negotiated under the Specific Claims Policy. Commissioners include: Roger J. Austine and Daniel J. Bellegarde. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Historical background and submissions to Indian Claims Commission (ICC) regarding whether division and partial surrender of Tsimpsean Reserve was lawful. ICC found the surrender invalid and absolute surrender of aboriginal interests could not be required. Recommendations: settlement agreement provides for Aboriginal interests; redraft agreement; parties meet to discuss ICC 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.]

Food, Agricultural, and Resource Economics Thesis (M.Sc.)--The University of Guelph, 2013.

Compares ethnicity in those born after systematic state intervention (1960) and those born before.

Five elders of the Sarcee Reserve (ages 48-63) discuss their understanding of Treaty #7.

Family that is having problems establishing their treaty status.

Discussion of several topics: taking of Treaty #7, boundaries of Peigan Reserve; permit system; traditional curing practices; obtaining paint forceremonials; significance of rocks in Blackfoot culture; how the Blackfoot learned from the rock spirit how to drivethe buffalo over a cliff.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2015.

Explains various terms including: Status, non-status, Métis and Indian; explores differences and similarities between U.S. and Canadian government policies and terminologies.

Introduction to special issue on Non-Status Indians

Introduction and three archival items dealing with case of four brothers charged with offences under the Quebec Parks Act after a spiritual excursion into the forest. Documents highlight historical guarantees, a treaty of peace and friendship, and land use rights.

Lesson plan to be used in conjunction with video Shi-shi-etko.

Significant events from the 1540s to 2004.

Comments on the letters sent to the United States federal government by members of the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy to prevent their removal.

Discussion of the legislative gap in protecting a spouse's right to equal division of matrimonial real property on-reserve and other human rights issues which leave Aboriginal women at economic and social disadvantage.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 1993.

Mr. Ledoux, aged 99 at the time of the interview is of mixed French and Indian ancestry but is registered as a treaty Indian. He was present during the Riel Rebellion of 1885 and gives an account of what he saw in the Rebellion; views of the rebellion and the people involved.

Summary of study which reviewed options for housing under the Indian Act and First Nations Land Management Act. Consisted of literature review and interviews with staff from various stakeholder organizations.

Discusses the issue of feminism within the context of Aboriginal cultures.

Historical background, analysis and recommendations from the Indian Claims Commission (ICC) hearing to determine the validity of the surrender and sale of Indian Reserve (IR) 98. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Final Report regarding the James Smith Cree Nation's claim challenging the validity of the surrender and sale of the Chakastaypasin Band's Indian Reserve (IR) 98. Commissioners include: Renée Dupuis and Alan C. Holman. [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.]

FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contents include historical documents, annotated indexes, legal documents, submissions, transcripts, correspondence/letters, genealogy charts, and the Final Report in English and French. [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.]

Historical background, submissions, and recommendations from Indian Claims Commission (ICC) hearing to determine if Canada breached its obligations in taking an invalid surrender and in its subsequent disposition of the land. ICC found that James Smith Cree Nation was not owed any lawful obligations, but recommended that Canada's obligations dealing with the disposition of IR100A be negotiated with Cumberland House Cree Nation. Commissioners include: Renée Dupuis and Alan C. Holman.

FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contents include historical documents, treaties, maps, field notes, reports, interview transcripts, census records, submissions and the French and English versions of the Final Report. [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.]

FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contents include reports, legal documents, transcripts, field books, submissions and English and French versions of the Final Report. [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.]

Concludes that no outstanding treaty land entitlement is owed to the James Smith Cree Nation. Commissioners include: Renée Dupuis and Alan C. Holman. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Justice Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Regina, 2014.

Loss of treaty status after being accepted as treaty Indian for 40 years.

John Emms was an Indian agent for the federal government. He talks about work in the Kamsack area as a community development officer. He also disusses attitudes within the Indian Affairs department and the CCF/NDP governments' plans for the Indian and Metis peoples of Saskatchewan.

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

Examines the case of Jordan, a young Manitoba First Nation's child with a rare neuromuscular disorder, who died in a Winnipeg hospital after federal and Manitoba governments could not agree on who was financially responsible when hospital caregivers wanted to discharge him to a specialized foster home care near his home Reserve.

Mr. Phelps was the Minister of Natural Resources in the Saskatchewan CCF government from 1944 to 1948. He speaks of attempts to replace welfare in the north with programs for fish and fur marketing.

Consists of an interview with Josephine Beaucage where she gives an account of trapping in the woods as well as an account of the preparation of hides.

Book One: Yukon First Nations Settlement Areas

Presents guidelines for the jurisdictional framework of the territories.

Three presenters discuss the Daniels decision: First looks at the decision in terms of history, jurisdiction, and identity and citizenship; second analyzes the reasons given by the court for denying two declarations that were sought in the case; and third discusses problem of who can legitimately decide if someone is part of the Métis collective. Duration: 1:08:05. Presentations are part of the conference "Daniels: In and Beyond the Law" held at University of Alberta, Jan. 26-27, 2017.

Honourable Justice Ian Binnie, Supreme Court of Canada, speaks at the Symposium on Reconciliation in Toronto, Ontario, February, 2011. Duration: 4:22. Part 2 of 5.

Consists of an interview where she gives a general account of life in residential school and some experiences in Toronto.

Comments on the limitations of powers conferred by the Indian Act to Band and Band Councils.

FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contents include historical documents, transcripts, maps, legal papers, reports, submissions, and the Final Report in both French and English. [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.]

Final Report examines whether the claim of the Key Lake First Nations discloses a breach of Canada's "lawful obligations" to the First Nation under the Specific Claims Policy. Commissioners include: P. E. James Prentice, Carole T. Corcoran, and Roger J. Augustine. [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.]

Communication Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2017.

Conversation with a professor from First Nations University, Regina Campus, regarding her research work on HIV/AIDS and coordinating the National First Nations Environmental Contaminants Program. Duration: 30:17.