Property (Real, Intellectual, Cultural)

Considers the issue of repatriation of human remains as an ethical/cultural conflict within the field of archaeology; discusses means of resolving this conflict based in negotiation and mutual respect; concludes that archaeology must “change the way it does business,” and presents a course for this change.

Argues that ethnographic research must be conducted to find out the effect that trade rules have on intellectual knowledge.

Examines the study of ethnographic cultures and Indigenous customs as it developed in the American Indian communities in the era of the Indian Claims Commission.

Discusses her participation in the Walpole Island fair.

Includes list of online content evaluation guidelines, examples of sites developed in collaboration with Indigenous peoples, and guidelines for consultation.

Comments on the risk of population extirpation, reduced genetic variation, and species extinction due to the growing commercialization of medicinal plants.

Comments on jurisdictions around the world attempting to implement an efficient and equitable leasehold system.

Author argues that the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States doctrines contain no legal basis for regulating or eliminating the use of Indigenous symbols, images, or stereotypes as mascots or logos in sports and/or business.

An examination of the conflict between Canada's information management regime and Indigenous data sovereignty rights, suggesting the need for Indigenous sovereignty recognition and to treat Indigenous data with the same respect as data received from other nations.

Museology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Washington, 2017. Three cases studies: Burke Museum and the Stó:lō Nation; the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and the Siksika Nation; and the Field Museum and the Haida Nation.

Commentary looks at crown grants from the view of American case law.

Brief description of why the Indian Claims Commission was established and what it does. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Discusses the market for fake souvenirs and the effect on the Inuit community. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 18.

Act sets out rules for spouses or common-law partners during a conjugal relationship, upon breakdown of it, or upon death of the spouse of common-law partner.

Act sets out rules for spouses or common-law partners during a conjugal relationship, upon breakdown of it, or upon death of the spouse of common-law partner.

Provides general information to anyone experiencing a relationship breakdown and options available. It is not meant to provide specific advice about a personal situation. Duration:1:28:04.

Books reviewed: In the Shadows of the State: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995 by Steve Striffler. Cutting the Wire: The Story of the Landless Movement in Brazil by Sue Branford and Jan Rocha. Feeding the Market: South American Farmers, Trade and Globalization by John Hellin and Sophie Higman.

Includes overview of language revitalization and guidelines for community consultation, control, development and ownership, and accessibility and storage of materials.

Argues that the federal doctrine of tenure continues to endure as the foundation of Australian land law despite its social and historical irrelevance.

Discusses the problems associated with the legal and moral ownership of material objects.

Paper's information based on: literature review, interviews, case studies and a workshop. Primary focus is First Nations groups but also includes information on the North (Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut), offshore and national parks.

Estimates the fiscal and economic costs and benefits of creating an effective market based on a sample of 30 tax collecting First Nations in B.C.

Archaeology Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 2011. Uses case studies from Arizona State Museum and the Glenbow Museum.

Compares approaches to the issue in Canada and New Zealand.

Presents an Act that provides property taxation powers of First Nations, to create a First Nations Tax Commission, First Nations Finance Authority and First Nations Statistical Institute.

Overview of policy review and Indian Act amendments in 1988.

Reports results of document search and interviews with representatives from regional First nations data governance centres. Focus of environment scan and research included: state and history of initiatives, regional considerations around the government-First Nation relationship, and regional data sovereignty, Nation building and intergovernmental relationships.

Brief discussion of existing government programs, various initiatives such as Revolving Loan Funds, First Nations Market Housing Fund, and Habitat for Humanity Canada's Indigenous Housing Partnership, and the experiences of Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory (TMT), Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, and Kahnawake.

Argues that we have to change our concepts of property, contract, sovereignty and constitutional right to allow for growth of First Nations' self government.

Comments on six distinct characteristics of market cultures. Chapter from A History of Treaties and Policies, which is vol. 7 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series. Originally presented at the Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2009.

Includes both quantitative and qualitative information gathered from across the country. Qualitative findings are arranged under the following headings: reimaging representation, embedding Indigenous values, increasing Indigenous opportunities, and two-way caretaking of cultural material. Related material: Roadmap for Enhancing Indigenous Engagement in Museums and Galleries.

Includes policies from the 2005 version with extensive recommendations for additions and revisions.

Examines the implications of a national First Nations Land Title System (FNLTS) as it relates to economic development. The article also compares and looks at other Indigenous communities internationally.

Key points about steps involved in the process, legal status and powers of First Nations, and protection of lands.

General recollections of her school days.

This 62-year-old speaks of the history of Lesser Slave Lake Reserves; and gives details of the history of Swan River Reserve.

Gives the history of the Frog Lake Reserve and the taking of and interpretation of Treaty #6.

Mr. Paulhus is of French descent, not Metis. He is married to a Metis and has lived most of his life in a Metis community in the Duck Lake/Batoche area. He gives his impression of the Riel Rebellion, the causes, the battles and views of Riel and Dumont.

Interviewee's father, from Peguis Reserve in Manitoba, was interpreter at Treaty #8. Discussion is about treaty promises and the sale of reserve lands.

See Part 3: "Knowledge Sovereignty: Indigenous Resistance and Resiliencies".

Discusses museums as instruments of colonial domination, appropriating, decontextualizing, and commodifying sacred objects, and the importance of moving to an Indigenous approach to culture. Duration: 42:48.

Explains how to conduct land use research studies that meet the demands of academic requirements and simultaneously respects the Aboriginal communities participating. The article focuses on one specific example, that of the Long Lake First Nation.

Book reviews of: Beyond Intellectual Property: Toward Traditional Resource Rights for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities by Darrell A. Posey, Graham Dutfield and Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage: A Global Challenge by Marie Battiste, James (Sa'ke'j) Youngblood Henderson.

Book reviews of 2 books: Aboriginal Health in Canada: Historical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Perspectives by James B. Waldram, D. Ann Herring, T. Kue Young and Comparing the Policy of Aboriginal Assimilation: Australia, Canada and New Zealand by Andrew Armitage.

Establishment of the Ermineskin, Louis Bull, Montana and Samson Reserves ; sale of Louis Bull Reserve land.

Results of project showed that the Indigenous perspective was more wholistic than the mainstream and encompassed community safety, environment, beliefs, kinship patterns, social arrangements, and norms of individual, familial and social conduct. Includes case study of a project which failed to move forward because researchers refused to sign a Research Collaboration Agreement. Related material: Ganohonyohk Tool.

Examines intellectual property rights issues associated with traditional knowledge in medicine from a gender perspective, and looks at the implications for the wellbeing of the Indigenous populations.

Uses the example of the Iroquois of upper New York to illustrate how Europeans interpreted social structure in terms of their own cultures and belief systems. In this case, the view that Indian men were lazy and the women "drudges" who nevertheless possessed a great deal of power.