Property (Real, Intellectual, Cultural)

Celebrates twenty years since the passing of the single most important piece of legislation affected museums in the United States.

Communications Studies Project (M.A.)--University of Calgary, 2008

Examines Nancy’s story as a case study about Cherokees, race, slavery, and property dispute.

Regarding land surrendered in 1906 to create The Pas town site for which adequate compensation was never received. (French language version) Commissioners include: Daniel J. Bellegarde, Alan C. Holman, and Sheila G. Purdy. [These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]

Demonstrates the use of the concept of social class for understanding of reservation politics and argues why most theoretical models for class analysis are inadequate.

Study on the protection of rights for folklore holders.

Native Studies Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Saskatchewan, 1997.

Archival Studies Thesis (M.A.)--East Tennessee State University, 2013.

Videos from a day-long symposium which explored past and present fashions, issues surrounding appropriation, and examples of collaborations between Indigenous designers and fashion brands.

Tribal Archaeologist in the Cultural Preservation Office of the Hopi Tribe, discusses how the Hopi are using the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act’s consultation mandate to develop a mutually beneficial relationship with archaeologists and physical anthropologists.

Document provides an understanding of the issues raised by the implemention of the NAGPRA and a reference tool for Canadian law reform.

Focuses on the overlapping legal and ethical issues regarding non-Native collaborators and the colonizing relationship to Native American texts or put more simply intellectual property rights of Native American life stories.

Examines the issues involved when development threatens sacred sites.

Interdisciplinary Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Oregon State University, 2006.

Discussion of uranium mining, questions of sovereignty, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, cultural integrity, radiation hazards and the anti-nuclear movement.

Arts Thesis (M.A.)--University of Montana, 2001.

Book review of Native Claims edited by Saliha Belmessous. Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 223.

Examines the Queensland Indigenous Working Group (QIWG) and the five key elements of the Right to Negotiate where Aboriginal title survived.

Presents the Native Women's Association of Canada's (NWAC) perspective on Canada's compliance with articles in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).

Discussion of public domain trust allotments, a class of specific lands, for individuals, created by the General Allotment Act of 1887 and the National Indian Forest Resources Management Act (NIFRMA).

Author examines the ways that the field of archaeology has worked to other Indigenous peoples; discusses the ways that this binary is be disassembled by Indigenous archaeologists.

Topics discussed by Nisga'a Tribal Council Chairman, include Aboriginal title, ownership, courts, rights, and customary law. Interview first published in Multinational Monitor, vol. 13, no. 9, September, 1992.

Presents the fifth report of the Committee which was authorized to examine and report on the general concerns of First Nations in Canada related to the claims process.

Submitted specific claim to the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development arguing that a reserve had been created in 1862 by the British Crown and was later unlawfully reduced. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New Brunswick, 2005.

Reviews present and alternative methods used in the return of cultural property.

Curator at the Simon Fraser University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology describes the process of acquiring the SDDLNEWHALA bowl, on behalf of the Saanich Native Heritage Society, in order to prevent its exportation to the US.

Author examines if/how the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) in Washington, DC differs from its predecessor the Museum of the American Indian (MAI) in New York City.

Focus on murdered and missing Aboriginal women and children, protection of lands and resources, duty to consult and accommodate, and the impacts of incarceration.

Legislation bringing into effect the Treaty and land Agreement among Canada, British Columbia and the Nisga'a First Nation concerning land settlement and taxation matters.

History Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 1979.

Discusses how the Department of Indian Affairs pushed for the Ermineskin people to surrender their land and how people resisted.

Looks at important acts which govern land use and ownership, as well as some Supreme Court judgments after 1968.

Argues that the Canadian case, R versus Van Der Peet, has allowed the Australian Courts to interpret Aboriginal or Native title in a more restrictive manner.

Anthropology and Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 2000.

Looks at examples of cultural property collected by anthropologists from the North Pacific in the late19th century. Chapter in book: Properties of Culture - Culture as Property. Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia edited by Erich Kasten.

Discusses the role the Oblates played in British Columbia's Native land claims based on cultural conceptions of property and the government policies that provided a framework.

Law Thesis (LL.M.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1988.

Discusses different cultural models of land and resource ownership by the Salishan, the Nuu-Chah-Nulth, Kwakwaka'waka, Haida, Nisga'a and additional northwest coast peoples.

Contends that the criminal and civil provisions of the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 have proved ineffective against the manufacturers, importers, and sellers of imitation Native American arts and crafts.

Argues that reservation lands must be given back to individuals in order to remove the main barrier to economic development. Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota is discussed.

Presents Ainu litigation against the mismanagement of property by the Japanese state under the Former Natives Protection Act .

Discusses the Comprehensive Land Agreements and attempts to explain why alternatives to the original certainty provision emerged after 1986.