Law Enforcement
The Stonechild Effect: Ten Years after the Explosive Inquiry, a Look at How One Teen's Death Changed a City
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jason Warick
Saskatoon Star Phoenix, October 24, 2014
Description
Case involved members of the Saskatoon Police Service who had picked up the teenager and driven him to a location on the outskirts of the city where he subsequently died of exposure.
Study Committee on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: Final Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Study Committee on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Description
Includes transcript of House Bill 2570, background and committee activity, minutes and reference materials, and various submissions discussing the issue.
Submissions from Parties with Standing [National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls ]
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
National Inquiry Into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Description
Contains links to oral and written submissions by persons and groups with a substantial and direct interest in the subject matter, or with expertise and perspectives essential for the Inquiry to fulfill its mandate.
Submissions of United Native Nations Society on the Final Phase of the Frank Paul Inquiry: December 14-15, 2010
Alternate Title
Frank Paul Inquiry: William H. Davies, Q.C. Commissioner Appointed under the Public Inquiry Act, S.B.C., 2007, c.9
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
A. Cameron Ward
Neil Chantler
Description
Inquiry looked into circumstances surrounding the death of a Mi'kmaq man who was removed from Vancouver Police Department lock-up, left in an nearby alley and subsequently died of exposure and hypothermia.
Summary Description / Task Force on Delivery of Legal Services to Native People of B.C. - [1970s?].
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Task Force on Delivery of Legal Services to Native People of B.C.
Description
The organization, Task Force on Delivery of Legal Services to Native People of B.C., seeks to help Aboriginals deal with the legal system and makes several recommendations, including increasing the number of lawyers, court workers and RCMP members of Aboriginal descent, and to provide pre-paid legal services to Aboriginals.
The Sun Dance and the Gustafsen Lake Standoff: Healing Through Resistance and the Danger of Dismissing Religion
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nicholas D. Shrubsole
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 2, no. 4, Traditional Knowledge, Spirituality and Lands, 2011, pp. 1-17
Description
Examines renewal and interpretation of spiritual practices and the failures to safeguard ceremonies and off-reserve sacred sites.
Systemic Racism in Policing in Canada: Submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Human Rights Watch
Description
Reports findings from field research conducted in northern British Columbia in 2012 and Saskatchewan in 2016/17 with respect to Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and municipal police interactions with Indigenous women and girls.
Task Forces
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
City of Saskatoon
Description
Includes Saskatoon City Council minutes from a meeting on Tuesday, February 19, 1980 regarding Task Forces dealing with Native People and the Law, Education and Training, Employment and Economic Development, and Housing.
Tears 4 Justice and the Missing and Murdered Women and Children Across Canada: An Interview with Gladys Radek
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Vicki Chartrand
Gladys Radek
Radical Criminology, no. 3, 2014, pp. 113-126
Description
Background to the issue and discussion with activist and founder of the Walk 4 Justice initiative, which began in 2008 to raise public awareness and publicize the extent of ongoing violence against women.
Tensional Decolonization and Public Order in Western Nigeria, 1957-1960
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Oluwatoyin Oduntan
Kemi Rotimi
Decolonization, vol. 4, no. 2, 2015, pp. 103-122
Description
Discusses the impact of decolonization on policing and public order, and argues that it was not just a series of programs negotiated between and implemented by colonial governments and anti-colonial nationalists.
[Terminology & Rights Handbook]
Alternate Title
A Citizen's Guide to Rights
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Craig Charbonneau Fontaine]
Description
Developed to assist students in understanding language used in constitutional discussions, and give information about rights when encountering police.
Third Annual Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners to the President of the United States. 1871.
Documents & Presentations
Description
The Third Annual Report of the United States Board of Indian Commissioners includes reports of living conditions on reservations; correspondence and transcripts of meetings between government officials and Aboriginal chiefs and officials; and lists of Indian Agencies with names of tribes and agents.
Historical note:
Harold Nelson Woodsworth served as an Indian Agent at a number of agencies in Saskatchewan.The Third Solitude: Making a Place For Aboriginal Justice
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brian Donohue
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 17, no. 2, 1997, pp. 315-328
Description
Outlines cultural assumptions of the Canadian justice system in contrast with Aboriginal conceptions of justice and argues that Canada must implement the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples to neutralize the impact of criminal law on Aboriginal peoples.
This Man Tracks: Laurie O'Neill and Post-War Changes in Aboriginal Administration in Western Australia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anne Scrimgeour
Aboriginal History, vol. 38, 2014, pp. 39-58
Description
Biographical article on the evolution in Aboriginal administration through the eyes of an officer for the Western Australia Department of Native Affairs.
Three Mounties stand beside Chief Sam Swimmer and son Andrew
Images » Photographs
Description
Snapshot of three Mounties standing beside two Indians in ceremonial dress, and a (white?) man in suit and Indian headdress. This was retirement ceremony at Sweetgrass reserve for S. L. McDonald (far right), Indian agent at Battleford (---- to 1950?). Third from right is Chief Swimmer (Yanyahnum), chief of the Sweetgrass, and 2nd from right, his son Andrew Swimmer. (Source: Wes Fineday)
Thunder Bay Police Services Board Investigation: Final Report
E-Books
Author/Creator
Murray Sinclair
Description
Investigation came about due to complaints by leaders from Nishnawbe Aski Nation, Grand Council Treaty 3 and the Rainy River First Nations that the Board was not responding to deaths and race-based violence against Indigenous peoples.
Touchwood Hills - Correspondence and Ledger Sheets - By-Law Relating to the Repression of Intemperance and Profligacy
Documents & Presentations
Description
A copy of a by-law with full title: By-Law / as adopted by the White Bear Band of Indians / on the 27th day of February, 1918 / and / as confirmed by the Governor General in Council / on the 14th day of March 1918 under Sub-sec. (c) of Sec. 98 of the Indian Act / for the / Regression of Intemperance and Profligacy. Copy found within folder titled Touchwood Hills - Correspondence and Ledger Sheets.
Historical note:
Harold Nelson Woodsworth served as an Indian Agent at a number of agencies in Saskatchewan.Towards More Effective Missing Women Investigations: Police Relationships with Victims' Families, the Community and the Media: A Policy Discussion Report Prepared for the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry
Alternate Title
Missing Women Commission of Inquiry
Oppal Commission
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Melina Buckley
Description
Developed on the basis of review of Canadian and international reports and best practices. Summarizes major issues and questions likely to inform the Commission analysis.
Tracia's Trust: Front Line Voices: Manitobans Working Together to End Child Sexual Exploitation
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Manitoba Family Services and Housing
Child Protection Branch
Description
Produced as result of workshops held during the Front Line Voices: Manitobans Working Together to End Child Sexual Exploitation summit. Recommendations and plans of action grouped into four themes: legislation and law enforcement, continuum of services, breaking the silence, and child, youth, family and community empowerment.
Training Course a Taste of Real Police Work
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Morgan Beaudry
Eagle Feather News, vol. 10, no. 5, May 2007, p. 14
Description
Looks at an introduction to police work during a two week training course, for 26 students, through the Treaty Four Citizens Police Academy offered by the Regina Police Service.
Article located by scrolling to page 14.
Transboundary Water Disputes on an International and State Platform: A Controversial Resolution to North Dakota's Devils Lake Dilemma
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joseph M. Flanders
North Dakota Law Review, vol. 82, no. 3, The Pedagogy of American Indian Law, 2006, pp. 997-1032
Description
Looks at the environmental law legislation on the state and federal levels; controlling international treaty law and amending the state nuisance law.
Scroll down to page [997] to read article.
Treaty Chiefs and Attorney Generals in Canada
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Michelle Brass
Justice as Healing, vol. 2, no. 1, Spring, 1997, p. [?]
Description
Examines the historical role of the Attorney General and the responsibilities of the Treaty Chiefs of Canada in the areas of Aboriginal justice and punishment. Suggests that Treaty Chiefs are on the same level as the Attorney General.
Note: This is a sample article from the publication. Subscriptions are available from the Native Law Centre.
'Trends in Indian Education': Problems Clarified at Conference
Articles » General
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 5, no. 7, April 15, 1975, p. 6
Description
Conference sponsored by the Saskatchewan School Trustees Association (SSTA), the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs (DIAND) and the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians (FSI).
The Trials of the “White Rebels”
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Sandra Estlin Bingaman
Saskatchewan History, vol. 25, no. 2, Spring, 1972, pp. [41]-54
Description
Discusses the cases, trials of, and outcomes for William Henry Jackson and Thomas Scott, two non-Indigenous participants in the North-West Resistance of 1885.
Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 41.
Tribal Court Clearinghouse: A Project of the Tribal Law and Policy Institute
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Tribal Law and Policy Institute
Description
Comprehensive website intended as a resource for American Indian and Alaskan Native Nations and people, tribal justice systems, victims and tribal service providers, and the improvement of justice.
Contains links to: tribal law, federal law, state law, and other resources.