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Who Owns the Problem?: Crime and Disorder in James Bay Cree Communities

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carol LaPrairie
Eddie Diamond
Canadian Journal of Criminology, vol. 34, no. 3-4, July-October 1992, pp. [417]-434
Description
Compares methods of dealing with crime on-reserve (communities with a majority Aboriginal population) which may not involve formal processes and off-reserve (communities with a minority Aboriginal population) which are dealt with through the criminal justice system.
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Will There Be Justice for Anna Mae?

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Peter Worthington
Whitehorse Star, June 28, 2006, p. 10
Description
Discussion of the 1975 murder of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash and how John Boy Graham is being extradited to the United States for this crime.
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William Pearce Manuscript, Volume 1 - 1925.

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
William Pearce
Description
Selected excerpts from bound published volume of narrative which covers such topics as the early settlement and development of the western regions of what is now Canada. Among other subjects, Metis land grants and scrip, fur traders, buffalo hunting and methods of transportation used by Natives, and the Northwest Resistance are covered.
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The Winter of Our Discontent

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Drew Hayden Taylor
Windspeaker, vol. 30, no. 11, February 2013, p. 12
Description

Comments on media coverage of Idle No More events, hunger strike regarding horrid conditions in Attawapiskat, police abuse towards First Nation people in Thunder Bay and more.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.12.

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Working Together: Building and Sustaining a Multijurisdictional Response to Missing or Murdered Indigenous Children and Adolescents

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Catherine S. Connell
Leslie A. Hagen
Stephanie C. Knapp
United States Attorney's Bulletin, vol. 69, no. 2, Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons: Legal, Prosecution, Advocacy and Healthcare, March 2021, pp. 5-26
Description
Covers the needs for a comprehensive multidisciplinary response to deal with missing or murdered Indigenous persons. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to page 5.
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"Wouldn't Piss on Them If They Were on Fire": How Discrimination Against Sex Workers, Drug Users and Aboriginal Women Enabled a Serial Killer: Report of Independent Counsel

to the Commissioner of the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jason Gratl
Description
Five topics: police failure to protect women at risk, how discriminatory attitudes, biases and stereotyping undermined investigations, suppression of information about risk of a serial killer, and Crown counsel's decision to stay attempted murder charge against Robert Pickton in January 1997.
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Yesterday’s Promises: The Negotiation of Treaty Ten

Alternate Title
Yesterday’s Promises: The Negotiation of Treaty 10
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anthony G. Gulig
Saskatchewan History, vol. 50, no. 1, Spring, 1998, pp. 25-39
Description
Describes the process through which the Treaty 10 was negotiated and the underlying motives of the Canadian government, the Cree people and the Dené people. Discusses differences in opinion about the rights and enshrined therein, and the government’s prosecution of Indigenous harvesters. Entire issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 25.
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A Young Warrior's Perspective on the Conflict at Six Nations

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Taiaiake Alfred
New Socialist, no. 58, Special Issue on Indigenous Resurgence, Sept-Oct 2006, pp. 23-25
Description
Interview with a participant in the protest over proposed development on what protesters claimed was unceded land at Douglas Creek. Scroll down to page 23 to read the article.
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Zero Tolerance Policing: Implications for Indigenous People

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Commission
Australian Indigenous Law Reporter, vol. 4, no. 3, 1999, p. 114
Description
Discusses how 'zero tolerance policing' may generate more police Aboriginal contacts and in doing so might potentially increase Indigenous incarceration rates
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