Indian Act

Describes two Canadian cases and a brief about Canada's Constitutional revision process made on behalf of the First Nations of Canada Delegation.

Book review of: Fractured Homeland by Bonita Lawrence.

Frank and Mary One Spot give a general account of the movement of the Sarcee Indians.

Article discusses the spiritual and cultural-based resistance to the imposition of colonial culture, religion, and law; the banning if Indigenous spiritual practice by that colonial state(s) as a response; and the implementation of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act (AIRFA) in 1978 which extended First Amendment Rights to the Indigenous peoples living in the United States.

Answers questions regarding new amendments to the Indian Act in the wake of the ruling of McIvor v. Canada (Registrar of Indian and Northern Affairs).

Historical background and submissions to Indian Claims Commission (ICC) whether descendents and former members of the Michel Band are entitled to be recognized as members under the Indian Act. ICC concluded Canada has no obligation to recognize or reconstitute the Band; ICC recommended the claim regarding invalid reserve surrenders be submitted to Specific 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.]

Looks at three conferences held during 1939, 1966 and 1997 to examine the changing awareness of Aboriginal issues within academic circles.

Author warns those who choose the path of neoliberalism that they may be forsaking their own unique Indigenous worldviews and values.

Looks at the language and oppositional concepts that taxation jurisprudence draws upon.

Indian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Regina, 2000.

Discusses men who married Aboriginal women, lived on reserves and were considered a threat to maintaining separate racial spaces.. Chapter in book: Historicising Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on Construction of Identity edited by Leigh Boucher, Jane Carey, and Katherine Ellinghaus.

Looks at The Redeemed Captive written by John Williams, the Indian Act and Mohawk women of today.

Saskatchewan Chiefs pass a resolution that rejects the federal Indian Act Optional Modification Act.

Explains the First Nation Land Management Act and the benefits and drawbacks.

Advocates that the proposed changes to the Indian Act are irrelevant compared to ensuring the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Examines the questions: Why is it so hard to define Aboriginal populations in Canada? How can the recent demographic explosion be explained? Chapter 12 from Social Statistics and Ethnic Diversity edited by Patrick Simon, Victor Piché, and Amélie A. Gagnon.

Confirms differences of opinions between First Nations and governments in regards to provincial jurisdiction to gaming on reserves.

Describes rebate program signed by Chief Sol Sanderson and Agricultural Minister Gordon MacMurchy.

Reports discrimination remains in the registration provision of the Indian Act and is found in the second generation cut-off rule which was not looked at in the McIvor case.

Compares policies that oppressed Aboriginal women in Australia and Canada during the 19th and 20th centuries. Special Joint issue with Labour History, volume 71.

Discussion of an externally imposed statutory system of classification and regulation of First Nations' peoples.

Examines changes in 1983 and 1985 constituencies and legislative amendments reversing the consolidated Indian Act of 1876.

Looks at issues of Indigenous constitutional visions, treaty constitutionalism and decolonization through a gendered lens. Paper presented at the 80th Annual Conference of the Canadian Political Science Association, UBC, June 2008.

Argues that the legal framework has not kept up with demographic shifts because it focuses on land-related rights and ignores off-reserve and non-status population. As such, it disproportionately affects women who have been displaced through discriminatory effects of the Indian Act.

Discussion of how the government/judicial category of "half-breed" was developed to facilitate appropriation of land and resources.

Keynote address by associate professor of Native Studies at York University. Duration: 1:05:11.

Reviews policies, the history of colonization and the impact of goals of the settler government on Non-Status Indians.

Author's opinion on the Aboriginal treaty model in British Columbia.

Excerpt from Indian History and Claims: A Research Handbook v. 2 by Bennett McCardle.

Discusses conflict of law arising from application of provincial law on-reserve to matters in First Nation jurisdiction, examples cited include: gambling, smoking, adoption, health, welfare regulation and education.

Examines the narrow interpretation in this jurisdiction of "reserve lands" under the Indian Act and how this has stymied self-government.

Discusses accountability within the management of funds, legislative power, and the Indian Act.

Superior Court of Quebec ruled that several paragraphs and one sub-section relating to Indian registration (status) under section 6 of the Indian Act violated equality provisions under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Found difference of treatment between women and men and their respective descendants.

Native Studies Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Manitoba, 2003.

Sites provides information to assist non-indigenous people grow relationships with Indigenous people. Includes links and video to topics on Aboriginal Title, residential schools, concepts on colonialism, racism, missing and murdered women, privilege, and allies as well as section on basic terminology.

Presentation by the author of Resource Rulers: Fortune and Folly on Canada's Road to Resources, offers recommendations to First Nations people including promoting their 197 legal wins. Duration: 31:50.

Provides information on how other organizations deal with self-declaration and contains an Aboriginal self-declaration form.

Conference paper from: Place and Memory in Canada: Global Perspectives: 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, April 30-May 3, 2004, Cracow, Poland edited by Magdalena Paluszkiewicz-Misiaczek, Anna Reczyńska, and Anna Śpiewak. Discusses Aboriginal identity and Bill C-31.

Examined the lack of legislation protecting Aboriginal women on reserves, in terms of property, available judicial remedies and execution of court orders, found that the situation violated their rights in terms of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and section 35(4) of the Constitution Act of 1982 and made recommendations for immediate actions.

Looks at the different ways the Conservative Government and First Nations' plan to reform the Indian Act and the possible effects on the status of First Nations.

Summarizes and lists issues associated with Bill C-45, C-27, S-6, S-8, C-428, S-207, and S-212.

General discussion of his life.

Overview of the evolution of the Act, description of the operation and processes of the committee, and highlights of testimony heard. Includes excerpts from Committee minutes and summary of conference proceedings.

Proceedings from the second Virtual Roundtable on First Nation Citizenship held June 20, 2011. Roundtable featured discussion on First Nation citizenship, identity, and Nationhood.