Property (Real, Intellectual, Cultural)

Discusses the Mohawk community's development and implementation of the CANO system and its operations including administration, infrastructure and connectivity, systems, and personnel.

Focuses on two approaches to Aboriginal property rights and governance rights; conclusions are similar in relation to property and diverge regarding governance.

Book review of Discovering Indigenous Lands by Robert J. Miller, Jacinta Ruru, Larissa Behrendt, and Tracey Lindberg. Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 167.

Report provides overview of the debate, evolution of standards, developments on the promotion and protection of rights and freedoms, study of Treaties, and cultural and intellectual property, and includes the 1993 Draft Declaration of Indigenous Rights

Focuses on key legal issues affecting the subject of matrimonial real property on reserve and the policy context in which they are situated.

Discusses the issues involved in integrating the two types of knowledge in the interest of economic development.

Briefly explains reasons for the out-migration from Manitoba after the Red River Resistance and the 1885 Resistance, including disappearance of the bison-hunting economy, failure of agriculture, influx of settlers, racism, changes to legislation, and flaws in the Scrip system.

Presentations explore the social, cultural, political and economic implications of genetic testing and in particular land and identity-based rights, tribal enrollment and repatriation of ancestral remains.

Discusses impact of clarifying property rights on local economic conditions by using employment and income data found in census data micro-data on reservations.

Discussion of the risk of loss of water resources in the western United States in light of several U.S. Supreme Court rulings.

Designed to help traditional knowledge holders, government representatives and third-party collaborators consider issues related to intellectual property law and provide illustrative case studies.

Discussion of the Delgamuukw v. British Columbia Supreme Court case of 1997.

Focuses on the challenges faced by libraries and other related institutions wishing to reproduce Australian Indigenous artwork.

History of Lesser Slave Lake Reserves, and details of the history of Swan River Reserve.

Consists of an interview with non-Indian employed at the Gabriel Dumont Institute in Regina. At the time of the interview he was writing a book on the history of the Metis nation.

Don Nielson was one of the original organizers of the Metis Association of Saskatchewan in 1964. He talks about the differences between Metis groups in the north and south and Norris's fight against government funding.

One of the original organizers of the Metis Association of Saskatchewan in 1964 discusses problems within native organizations between north and south, status and non-status, Liberal and CCF.

Discusses the controversy surrounding the Lubicon's call for a boycott of The Spirit Sings exhibit mounted at the Glenbow Museum during the 1988 Olympics. Excerpt from Olympic Perspectives: Third International Symposium for Olympic Research edited by Robert K. Barney, Scott G. Martyn, Douglas A. Brown, and Gordon H. MacDonald.

Looks at three case studies effecting rights of Indigenous women and involving public policies by federal and provincial governments.

Discusses the relationship between Indigenous art and the Copyright Act, the problematic double standards in the act, and the affects of changes from primitive to fine art status.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 1999.

Consists of an interview with the father of Almighty Voice, whose story is described briefly.

Comments on the necessity of having a will and where to find information on how to write a will. Article located by scrolling to page 9.

Descriptive study traces the changes of both collective and private land control on a British Columbia reserve over the past 50 years.

In this editorial the author examines the origins and political consequences of “Eastern métis” (or “Québec métis” or “Acadian-métis”) studies.

Looks at the costs and benefits of implementing reforms necessary to improve real estate markets for interested First Nations.

Discusses the need for more economic analysis for developing approaches to Indigenous property rights.

Looks at the history of the Act, the problems of counterfeit goods and the economic and cultural effects and recommendations to re-align the Act to fulfill its intended purpose.

Investigation into John August Stone's Metamora, also known as The Last of the Wampanoags, and how this play and the Removal Act are intertwined with United States history.

Compares communities that implemented a treaty between 1991 and 2006 to those who have not in British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, and Yukon.

Book review of Elements of Indigenous Style by Gregory Younging.

Interview includes stories about the origin of the Sioux Dance and tales about the Sliding and Drumming hills.

Studies judicial case law surrounding Aboriginal title which the authors argue displays a clear preference for the status quo.

Consists of an interview where she gives general reminiscences about her childhood and an account of Christmas festivities. She also gives brief mention of ghost stories and native superstitions.

Consists of an interview where she gives an account of ghost stories and superstitions.

Consists of an interview where she gives an account of traditional Indian food. She gives a brief account of Indian medicine and she has a lengthy discussion of funeral customs.

Consists of an interview that gives an account of an earthquake in 1933.

Mrs. Roehl is the older sister of Malcolm Norris. She talks about growing up in the Norris family.

Discusses the challenges a research team faced as it arranged data ownership and governance in a highly politicized area of health research.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 1998.

Article speaks to many of the pieces included in Issue 20:2 of American Indian Quarterly, Repatriation: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, and describes some of the process and changes happening in Indigenous and Archaeological communities.

Presents a case about oil and gas royalties and discusses whether the Crown has a fiduciary obligation to invest.

An interview with Ernest Debassigae who recounts the history of the Manitoulin Island Indians and problems with Indian agents. Transcribed by Joanne Greenwood.

At issue is the pre-emption of a meadow used by the Esketemc First Nation or as it was then known the Alkali Lake Band. The inquiry found that Canada breached its fiduciary duty by not protecting the meadow, which was clearly in the band's settlement lands. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Overview of documents published in Canada, Greenland, Australia and New Zealand focusing on provisions related to collective consent, guidelines for storing human biological material and other data, and Indigenous peoples' rights to this data.