Indian & Northern Affairs Canada (INAC)

Criticizes Aboriginal leaders for a lack of adequate consultation at the community level before engaging in political talks.

Looks at policies regarding unrecognized Aboriginal communities and how they are assessed for recognition.

Discusses the national residential school survivors organization set up by Alvin Tolley and Walter Rudnicki and the high incidence of paedophilia in this Ottawa school system.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.7.

Looks at the federal proposasl First Nations Governance Initiative, which suggests amending the Indian Act in three areas: elections, band council accountability and legal status.

William Beaver, a 41-year-old councillor at Trout Lake, complains that members of the Bigstone band who live away from Wabasca receive no help from the band, and stresses the need for a reserve in the Trout Lake area, with sports facilities.

Negotiations of Treaty #8 regarding promises made, and requests for reserve land at Fort MacKay.

William Okeymaw was 12 years old at the time when he attended the Treaty #8 negotiations.He describes the negotiations and his understanding of the promises made; the role of the missionaries; talks of some of the Indian agents; and the abundance of buffalo in Lesser Slave Lake area at one time.

Historical background and submission to the Indian Claims Commission (ICC) regarding what lands the Bands occupied around Missioner Creek and Williams Lake in 1861 and if Canada had an obligation to protect the settlement. ICC held that the village sites should have been set aside for the Band and that Canada should accept the claim. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Special report by a law firm that specializes in Environmental, Aboriginal and Energy case law focuses on recent Canadian Aboriginal court rulings.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Wilfrid Laurier University, 2000.

Overview of organization formed to investigate the 1998 agreement-in-principle negotiated with the Federal Department of Indian Affairs.

Document generated to create a basis for discussions both within the organizations and while negotiating with the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. Sources include reports from, and meetings with, Indian Affairs, and First Nations authorities and communities, provincial policies, and professional and academic literature.

Discussion of issues related to forestry management and recommendations to improve current situation.

Agreement guided by the principles established in the Devolution Protocol Accord and signed by Canada, the YTG (Government of the Yukon), the Council of Yukon First Nations and members of the Kwanlin Dun First Nation, the Liard First Nation, Kaska Tribal Council, on behalf of the Ross River Dena Council and Kaska Dena Council.