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Dakota and Ojibwe Language Revitalization in Minnesota

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Volunteer Working Group on Dakota and Ojibwe Language Revitalization and Preservation
Legislative report as required by Minnesota Laws 2009, Article 4, Section 9 includes status update of languages, best practices, identification of barriers, and recommendations.
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[Daniels in Context]

Alternate Title
Daniels: In and Beyond the Law
Harry Daniels and the Daniels Case: A Son's Perspective on the Man, His Legacy and Vision for a United Métis Nation
Threading the Constitutional Needle with Sinew of Métisland and Métis
[What Brought It On - and Did We Get What We Wanted?]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Tony Belcourt
Elmer Ghostkeeper
Gabriel Daniels
Maria Campbell
Speakers discuss struggles for Métis rights and recognition which led to Daniels case and the Supreme Court's ruling that Métis and non-Status individuals fall within the definition of "Indian" in section 91(24) of the Constitution Act,1867; Maria Campbell reminisces about leader Harry Daniels, who initiated the court action. Duration: 1:59:52. Presentations are part of the conference "Daniels: In and Beyond the Law" held at University of Alberta, Jan. 26-27, 2017.
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Daring to Speak the Truth: De-constructing and Re-constructing Reconciliation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gabrielle Russell-Mundine
Graeme Mundine
Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing - Te Mauri: Pimatisiwin, vol. 1, no. 1, Healing Our Spirit Worldwide, The Seventh Gathering, August 2016, pp. 83-96
Argues that despite government rhetoric, Australia has failed to confront the racism shown in its past and current treatment of Aboriginals, and little progress has been made toward creating a new relationship.
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Data Colonialism in Canada's Chemical Valley: Aamjiwnaang First Nation and the Failure of the Pollution Notification System

Alternate Title
Yellowhead Institute Special Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Vanessa Gray
Beze Gray
M. Fernanda Yanchapaxi
Kristen Bos
M. Murphy

Discusses the area of Ontario where 40 percent of Canada's petrochemicals are processed and refined and where full information about events such as spills, flares, air releases, and even everyday cumulative exposures is not supplied to the First Nation due to the industry-governed notification system and inadequate regulatory legislation.

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Data Sovereignty and the Tribal Law and Order Act

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Christopher B. Chaney
The Federal Lawyer, vol. 1080-675X, April 2018, pp. 22-25, 67
Discusses the ways in which data collected about criminal justice and legal services interacts with the Tribal Law and Order Act (TLOA) and how that affects notions of tribal sovereignty.
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The Dawes Act, or Indian General Allotment Act of 1887: The Continuing Burden of Allotment. A Selective Annotated Bibliography

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael R. McLaughlin
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20 , no. 2, 1996, pp. 59-105
Discusses the lack of existing government documentation, regarding federal Indian law, that would provide the knowledge necessary for Native Americans to negotiate on an equal level.
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Deadly Embrace: From State Sovereignty to Cooperative Agreements in a Public Law-280 State

Alternate Title
Proceedings of the 2008 Western Social Science Association Meeting, American Indian Studies Section
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jeff Armstrong
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 19, no. 2, Summer, 2008, p. [?]
Outlines the history of Minnesota's jurisdictional arrangements with the Anishinabe Ojibwe of White Earth and five other reservations of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe and how the state began asserting its sovereignty over those reservations. Scroll down to access article.
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Deadly Medicine/White Man's Wicked Water

Alternate Title
Deadly Medicine & White Man's Wicked Water
Deadly Medicine and White Man's Wicked Water
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Alison Games
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 3/4, Summer/Fall, June 1, 1999, pp. 177-181
Book reviews of: Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America by Peter C. Mancall; White Man's Wicked Water: The Alcohol Trade and Prohibition in Indian Country, 1802-1892 by William E. Unrau.
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Decolonizing Policy Processes: An Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis of Policy Processes Surrounding the Kelowna Accord

Alternate Title
An Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis Framework
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Alycia Fridkin
Argues that inclusion of Indigenous peoples in policy decision-making is essential for developing policies that address health inequalities. Paper from An Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis Framework edited by Olena Hankivsky.
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Deep Organizing and Indigenous Studies Legislation in Oregon

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Leilani Sabzalian
Angie Morrill
Se-ah-dom Edmo
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 58, no. 3, Fall, 2019, pp. 34-57

Highlights the implementation of Oregon's Senate Bill 13, an effort to include more Indigenous history and perspectives into the state's schools curriculum.  

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Delaware Identity in the Cherokee Nations

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Claudia Haake
Indigenous Nations Studies Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, Spring, 2002, pp. 19-45
Looks at the history of the Delaware tribe and the survival of their identity within the Cherokee Nation.
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Delegate Wants Sell-out Chiefs Stamped Out [Bill C-19]

Alternate Title
Delegate Wants Sell-out Chiefs 'Stamped Out' [Bill C-19]
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Paul Barnsley
Windspeaker, vol. 20, no. 11, March 2003, p. 3

Highlights the dialogue between disgruntled members of the Assembly of First Nations organization against their fellow chiefs who are in favor of Bill C-19.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.3.

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[Dene, Métis Ink Historic Land Claim Agreement]

Alternate Title
Midday ; April 9, 1990
[1990: Dene, Métis Sign Historic Land Claim Agreement]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Gary Bohnet
Bill Erasmus
Valerie Pringle
Settlement gave groups control over 180,000 sq. km. of land, plus $500 million over 20 years. Includes synopsis. Duration: 8:03.
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Department Rejection Can Still Be Fought

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
Leader-Post, August 13, 2007, p. A3
Discusses the denied Aboriginal rights claims by nine Dakota First Nations. Canada argues that these people are refugees, following the battle of the Little Big Horn in 1976, but the Dakota argues that they were in fact returning to their traditional lands in Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
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Descheneaux v. Canada, 2015 QCCS 3555 – Case Summary

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mandell Pinder
Court considered whether registration provisions, which determine eligibility for status, in the Indian Act continued to discriminate against women and their descendants and limited their ability to pass on status, as compared to men. Found that several sections infringed on rights found in section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, declared those sections inoperative, and gave Canadian government 18 months to enact new legislation.
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Designing and Teaching an Introduction to Federal Indian Law

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Wynema Morris
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 27, no. 2, American Indian Law, Winter, November 8, 2015, pp. [28-29, 7]
Briefly discusses various aspects of a course on Federal Indian Law taught through the Native American Studies Department at Nebraska Indian Community College.
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Desperately Seeking Absolution: Native Agency as Colonialist Alibi?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robin Brownlie
Mary-Ellen Kelm
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 75, no. 4, December 1994, pp. 543-557
Discusses the development of Aboriginal rights from the outlawing of the potlatch to the rejection of anthropological evidence given at the Gitksan Wet'suwet'en land claim.
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Destabilizing the Consultation Framework in Alberta's Tar Sands

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jennifer Mills
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 51, no. 1, Destabilizing Canada / Le Canada déstabilisé, Winter, 2017, pp. 153-185
General discussion of consultation and consent, and analysis of recent legal cases which illustrate how Indigenous peoples in Alberta have been excluded from decision-making involving the oil industry.
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'Destitute of the Knowledge of God': Māori Testimony Before the New Zealand Courts in the Early Crown Colony Period

Alternate Title
'Destitute of the Knowledge of God': Maori Testimony Before the New Zealand Courts in the Early Crown Colony Period
Past Law, Present Histories
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Shaunnagh Dorsett
Looks at several different acts including the Aboriginal Evidence Act, and the Land Claims Ordinance. Chapter from Past Law, Present Histories edited by Diane Kirkby. Entire book on one pdf. To locate chapter, scroll to page 39.
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"Developing Indigenous Resources: Building Indigenous Economies"

Alternate Title
2004 Conference Report (Indigenous Bar Association)
Indigenous Bar Association Annual Fall Conference ; 16th, 2004
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indigenous Bar Association
Outlines the need for human rights, Aboriginal rights, and economic rights to protect Indigenous peoples during the development of Indigenous economies.
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Developing Legal Frameworks for Urban Aboriginal Governance

Alternate Title
Aboriginal Policy Research ; vol. 8
Aboriginal Policy Research Conference ; 3rd, 2009
Exploring the Urban Landscape
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Bradford W. Morse
Discusses the possibility of developing statutory frameworks which would provide formal recognition to existing non-profit and governance institutions, legal foundation for a body with authority to settle disputes, and enable choice of bringing existing institutions and agencies together for provision of public services to an elected government. Chapter from Exploring the Urban Landscape edited by Jerry P. White and Jodi Bruhn. Originally presented at the Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2009.
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