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Treaty 6 Education: In Search of Her Majesty's Bounty and Benevolence

Alternate Title
Treaty Six Education: In Search of Her Majesty's Bounty and Benevolence
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sheila Carr-Stewart
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 30, no. 2, 2007, pp. 231-[?]
Argues that it is time for Canada to fulfil the Crown's educational obligation to First Nations in order for them to reach parity in academic achievement with other Canadians.
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Treaty 8 Tribal Association, Saulteau First Nation TLE & Land In Severalty Claim Public Edition, May 2007

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Consists of annotated index, historical documents, reports, legislation, and the Final Report in French and English. [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.]
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Treaty Day in Saddle Lake North West Territories

Images » Photographs
A photograph of Treaty day in Saddle Lake between 1900 and 1904. In the photo (l to r) NWMP officer, Indian agent George Mann, George Mann Jr?, translator Peter Erasmus and a group of Saddle Lake Cree men.
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Treaty Governance Processes

Articles » General
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 30, no. 1, Winter, 1999/2000, pp. 22-24
Summarizes the various fora or tables used by government and First Nations to discuss treaty rights and/or jurisdictions.
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Treaty Rights Pose Challenge

Articles » General
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 3, no. 5, May 1972, p. 4
Assertion of Treaty rights in reaction to Indian Affairs Minister Chretien's white paper.
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Tri-lateral - Is This INAC Code for Downloading?

Alternate Title
Tri-lateral - Is This Indian and Northern Affairs Canada Code for Downloading?
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Paul Barnsley
Windspeaker, vol. 23, no. 4, July 2005, p. 9

Questions whether INAC's move toward a tri-lateral relationship with the province and First Nations peoples is really a breach in its fiduciary duty with the latter.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.9.

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Tribu des Blood / Kainaiwa Enquête sur les Revendications Regroupées

Alternate Title
Blood Tribe / Kainaiwa Big Claim Inquiry - Final Report [French Version]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Examines whether the rejected claim was properly resolved. (French language version) Commissioners include: Daniel J. Bellegarde and Alan C. Holman. [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.]
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A Trip Into the Saskatchewan Country - Samuel Bray. - Article. - [189-].

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Samuel Bray
W. Goode
[Canadian Magazine], vol. 13, [May-October] [1899], pp. 26-34
Reprint of an article by Samuel Bray, surveyor, describing his experiences travelling in northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan in the autumn of 1894. Included is an illustration of Cree writing.
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[The Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Recommendations and a Return to the Original Intent of the Treaty Relationship]

Alternate Title
McKercher Lecture Series
Wunusweh Lecture in Aboriginal Law ; 2017
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Derek Nepinak
Grand Chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs speaks about his background, challenges faced by community chiefs and First Nations political organizations, and the how the land plays a central role in attempts at reconciliation Duration: 59:54.
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Tuition Agreements Attacked

Articles » General
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 4, no. 2, February 1974, p. 14
Remarks about education funding at the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians All-Chiefs conference by Soloman Sanderson and the reply by Emil Korchinski of Indian Affairs.
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La Tuque School — Quebec

Alternate Title
Anglican Residential Schools
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
General Synod Archives
Anglican Church of Canada
Discusses the history of La Tuque School in Quebec, which ran from 1962 to 2006. It was one of the last church run schools to open before the government took over management of residential schools in 1969.
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Two Per Cent is No Solution, Secret Report

Alternate Title
Two Percent is No Solution, Secret Report
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Paul Barnsley
Windspeaker, vol. 25, no. 2, May 2007, p. 8

Assembly of First Nations National Chief Phil Fontaine contends that government funding for First Nations basic services is inadequate.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.8.

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Uncertain Counts: The Struggle to Enumerate First Nations in Canada and the United States, 1870-1911

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Benjamin Hoy
Ethnohistory, vol. 62, no. 4, October 2015, pp. 729-750
Looks at reasons why Indian agents and national census takers often could not obtain accurate information, including: linguistic and cultural differences, distrust, uncertainty of racial categories, geographic mobility, and isolation of communities.
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Unrealistic Funding Cap Hurting First Nations

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
StarPhoenix, April 27, 2007, p. A11
Argues that the Federal government knew about the state of First Nations living conditions and budget shortfalls prior to its latest budget.
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Urban Aboriginal Communities in Canada

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Christopher Reid
Indigenous Affairs, no. 3-4, Indigenous People in Urban Areas, 2002, pp. 48-53
Studies the growing trend towards greater urbanization among Canadian aboriginal people. To access this article scroll down to page 48.
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Urban Aboriginal Strategy Pilot Projects Formative Evaluation - Final Report

Alternate Title
Urban Aboriginal Strategy Pilot Projects Formative Evaluation - Final Report Submitted by Alderson-Gill & Associated Consulting Inc. To Office of the Federal Interlocutor: Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Alderson-Gill & Associates Consulting
p. 76
Looks at a strategy targeting urban Aboriginal communities to enhance coordination, improve horizontal linkages and partner with other stakeholders.
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Vouchers Way to Cut Reserve School Spending

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
StarPhoenix, January 7, 2005, p. A9
Argues that the proposed program is an off-loading, cost saving exercise for the Department of Indian Affairs and will hurt already underfunded reserve schools.
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W. M. Graham: Indian Agent Extraordinaire

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
E. Brian Titley
Prairie Forum, vol. 8, no. 1, Spring, 1983, pp. 25-41
Historical overview of William Morris Graham's rise in the Indian Department, to Indian Commissioner for the three Prairie Provinces.
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Walter Deiter Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Walter Deiter
Murray Dobbin
Indian History Film Project
Walter Deiter, former president of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians and first president of the National Indian Brotherhood, talks about the importance of Malcolm Norris in Metis politics and the splitting of the National Indian Council into the National Indian Brotherhood and the Metis Association of Canada.
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Water and Indigenous Peoples: Canada's Paradox

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jerry P. White
Laura Murphy
Nicholas Spence
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 3, no. 3, Water and Indigenous Peoples, 2012, pp. 1-25
Discusses how colonization has limited local community responses to issues of safe drinking water on reserves.
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We Are Not Going Anywhere

Alternate Title
All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward, Lecture 5
[2018 CBC Massey Lectures]
[Ideas with Paul Kennedy]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Tanya Talaga
Tanya Talaga, prize-winning journalist and author of Seven Fallen Feathers delivers the fifth of the 2018 Massey Lectures in Thunder Bay. In this lecture Talaga links the similarities between contemporary nations with a history of colonization and describes some of the effects for Indigenous peoples and communities, and advocates for Indigenous sovereignty and self-governance. Duration: 53:59
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We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Alanis Obomsawin
Documentary about a landmark discrimination case filed by the Assembly of First Nations and the Child and Family Caring Society of Canada against Indian and Northern Affairs Development Canada in 2007 about the treatment of First Nations children. Duration: 2:42:53.
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"We Must Farm to Enable Us to Live": The Plains Cree and Agriculture to 1900

Alternate Title
The Prairie West as Promised Land
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Sarah Carter

Disproves the commonly held belief that despite government efforts and assistance, reserve populations lacked the inclination or ability to farm.

Chapter five from The Prairie West as Promised Land edited by Chris Kitzan and R.D. Francis

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Weighted Student Formula

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC)
Comments on a funding framework which allocates funding on a per student basis in accordance with characteristics such as special needs.
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The Well-Being of Communities With Significant Métis Population in Canada

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Russell LaPointe
Sacha Senécal
Eric Guimond
Canadian Issues, Journeys of a Generation: Broadening the Aboriginal Well-Being Policy Research Agenda, Winter, 2009, pp. 85-92
Compares the educational levels, labour levels, and the income and housing quality and quantity levels in Métis communities to other aboriginal communities. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 85.
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What's Happening in the ISR?

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Contaminants & Remediation Directorate
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
Updates on management of contaminants at five sites in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region.
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