A conference discussing Indian and Christian creation myths, reflections on education and religion, comparison of Indian and non-Indian values, and the loss of traditional values and beliefs and the movement to recover them.

Elders discuss the loss of traditional religion and values; the relationship between traditional religions and Christianreligions; some stories of the creation and the flood.

A conference discussing comparison of Indian and Christian religions and religious ceremonies, traditional songs and dances, and history of Europeans in North America from the Indian viewpoint.

Project involves studying medicinal plants from Aboriginal traditional pharmacopeia. Recommends protocols for researchers when making partnerships and personal relationships with Aboriginal people.

Article seeks to illustrate the complexity of the ownership issue and urges governments and museums to reevaluate perceived rights to cultural property.

Provides a checklist that has been developed to provide interested companies with some guidance regarding relationships and communication with Aboriginal people.

Looks at Aboriginal customary law dealing with ancestral designs, ritual knowledge and intellectual property.

Looks at Aboriginal-type souvenirs, their production and how they are sold, Canadian laws and intellectual property.

Literature review centering on customary protocols.

Discusses the new federal rights of Russian Indigenous people regarding land ownership, access to natural resources, and protection of ancestral land.

Interviews and compilation of data from the Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC).

Book review of: Aboriginal Oral Tradition edited by Renee Hulan and Renate Eigenbrod.

Examination of differences in equality rights, due to the Indian Act, as to why Aboriginal women do not have the same rights as Aboriginal men living on-reserve and non-Aboriginal women living off-reserve.

Article outlines one possible legal response to the imminent export of a scared object under the Cultural Property Export and Import Act.

Reviews the 1997 Delgamuukw decision by the Supreme Court of Canada critical to determining the nature and extent of Aboriginal rights and title; and provides insight into the anthropological and legal approaches to title and rights.

Explores rights regarding movable cultural property.

Outlines the transfer of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory to the Dominion of Canada, and compares the Hudson Bay Company's claim versus the Aboriginal claim.

Looks at changes to inherent limit and extension resulting from the Tsilhqot'in Nation v. British Columbia case. Focuses on changes to provincial jurisdiction over Aboriginal titled lands and land use.

Discussion of the effects of the Delgamuukw decision.

Chapter in book: Beyond the Nass Valley: National Implications of the Supreme Court's Delgamuukw Decision edited by Owen Lippert. Focuses on definition of Aboriginal title according to the courts, as both a property and constitutional right.

Discusses Aboriginal title to land, Indigenous law and common law. Uses the cases of R. v. Marshall and William v. British Columbia for examples.

Book review of three books: Aboriginal Workers edited by Ann McGrath and Kay Saunders, with Jackie Huggins. Aboriginal Labour and the Cattle Industry by Dawn May. Indians at Work by Rolf Knight. To read review, scroll down to page 75.

Rejection of the Tasmanian Government's Land Rights Bill in the Upper House and the weak efforts at redress the issue of land rights.

Research agreements must be structured to ensure mutual benefits which reflect the equal status of both parties.

Explores issues of interpretation of fair use, historical collection of material, intellectual property and copyright, and Indigenous people as new user groups.

Discusses the protocol for reaching a mutually agreeable arrangement that still allows for the researcher to use the data for their own writing and publishing.

Focuses on the unacknowledged or unrecognized bands or tribes, especially in California, and their legal rights of repatriation that are enforceable through the courts.

Act discusses the lawful possession of lands, proceedings used to eject people not in lawful possession, penalty for persons selling liquors, and much more. The Act has 24 sections in total.

Changes include prohibition of "inordinate frequenting of a poolroom either on or off an Indian reserve", school attendance, and the acquiring or buying band property.

Discusses changes to the Indian Act, such as authority over "Eskimo Affairs", dying intestate (without having made a will), and deals regarding leases.

Amendments to the Indian Act including regulations that pertain to the buying and selling of property and the naming of any RCMP officer or special constable who are appointed to police duty on an Indian reserve "... a truant officer".

Amendments include changes regarding Indian band boards and how land may be taken to act upon the Soldier Settlement Act, of 1919.

Changes include : section 37, Recovery of Possession of Reserves; Section 87, any contract or agreement had to be approved by the Superintendent General; and section 105 about how presents or moneys, appropriated by Parliament and held for a band, should be not subject to any judical process for debt or other reason.

Contains changes to the Indian Act, including the issuing of leases and changes to the The Soldier Settlement Act.

Amendments to the Indian Act that discusses 'recovery of possession of reserves' and the decision that every contract or agreement dealing with money must have approval of the Superintendent-General.

Includes material on the lease of land, restrictions to celebrate festivals, dances, or other ceremonies, and regulations on band membership.

Legislative changes include issues relating to the death of a person dying intestate (without a will), bequeathing property, punishments for those found gambling or drunk, and punishments for failing to send children to school.

Brief description of the Hamatsa ritual.

Consists of an interview where Adam Solway talks about being orphaned at 8 years and adopted by the Blackfoot Reserve, Alta; his attendance at a residential school; becoming a councillor and then chief of the reserve. He comments on the issues he had to deal with as well as providing comments on contemporary lifestyles and leadership.

This is a continuation of an interview with Adam Solway on January 29, 1983 on the Blackfoot Reserve.

Advocates greater self-reliance and independence in order to improve the reserve housing situation.

Discusses the broader issue of rights in every area of life and the difficulties in the legislative system with recognizing group rights.

Adrian Hope has been active in Metis politics since the 1920s. He was involved in the organization of the Metis Association of Alberta, the Ewing Commission hearings, and the development of Metis colonies in Alberta.

Paper explores, analyzes and compares a representative sample of the mechanisms in place to provide ratepayer input into taxation systems where those ratepayers do not form part of the electorate for the governing councils.