Policy
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Diane McClymont Peace
Erin Myers
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 71, 2012, p. article no. 18412
Description
Since the launch of the process, 36 projects were funded enabling communities to increase their climate change knowledge.
Community Based Physiotherapy Services in the Kivalliq Region of Nunavut, Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
M. Achtemichuk
B. McKenzie
M. Fricke
J. Cooper
A. Macaulay
A. Durcan
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 63, Supplement 2, 2004, pp. 98-100
Description
Findings revealed that the access to physiotherapy treatment has improved since the arrival of the medical rehabilitation program.
Community Development at the Department of Indian Affairs in the 1960's: Much Ado About Nothing
Theses
Author/Creator
Robert Craig Cunningham
Description
Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1997.
Community Development & Research
Alternate Title
[Aboriginal Peoples Collection ; APC 13 CA (1996)]
E-Books
Author/Creator
Aboriginal Corrections Unit
Policy Branch
Solicitor General Canada
Description
Focus group discussed opportunities and barriers to community development and research. Provides examples of community-based development.
Community Healing and Aboriginal Self-Government
Alternate Title
Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada: Current Trends and Issues
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Josée Lavoie
John D. O'Neil
Jeffrey Reading
Description
Examines implications of self-government in health for improving provision of services and providing a voice in political health systems.
Chapter in book: Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada: Current Trends and Issues edited by J. H. Hylton.
The Community Health Representative in Alberta: A Program Evaluation
Theses
Author/Creator
Nancy Marian Gerein
Description
Health Care and Epidemiology Thesis (M.Sc.)--The University of British Columbia, 1977.
Community Involvement in "Mega-Project" Planning: A Case Study of the Relationship Between the Lax Kw'alaams Indian Band and Dome Petroleum
Theses
Author/Creator
Clive David Kessel
Description
Community and Regional Planning Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 1984.
Community Mobilisation Dialogue With Aboriginal Communities
Alternate Title
Aboriginal Peoples Collection ; APC 30 CA (2009)
E-Books
Author/Creator
Aboriginal Corrections Policy Unit
Public Safety Canada
Aboriginal Peoples Collection
Community Participation in Socio-Legal Control: The Northern Context
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Harald Finkler
Canadian Journal of Criminology, vol. 34, no. 3/4, July-October 1992, pp. 503-512
Description
Looks at the results of micro-urbanization on traditional practices for social control and levels of community involvement.
Compact, Contract, Covenant: Canada's Treaty-Making Tradition
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jim R. Miller
Description
Text of lecture given by the Canada Research Chair in Native -Newcomer Relations. Examines the Native-newcomer relationship, including treaty negotiations from first contact forward.
Companion Document of Selected Papers
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Aboriginal Health Services
Vancouver Coastal Health
Description
Purpose of brief compilation is to provide historical and current context for Aboriginal health status. Lists significant legislation and events chronologically, as well as discusses benefits, social determinants of health, gaps in services, etc.
A Comparative Review of Circumpolar Health Systems
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Kue Young
Kathryn Anderson
Gregory Marchildon
Susan Chatwood
Peter Bjerregaard ... [et al.]
Circumpolar Health Supplements, no. 9, 2012
Description
Describes and compares health care systems in the northern regions of the Arctic countries.
A Comparative Study on Dams and Power-water Diversion Projects across Canada, with Emphasis in Northern Ontario Proposed Water Developments and the Indian People Who Will Be Directly Affected by Their Impacts
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Harry Achneepineskum
Description
The author, a member of the Ogoki (Martin Falls) band in northern Ontario, expresses concern with the Canadian government's plan to dam rivers in Canada and divert the water to the United States. He notes that Aboriginal land will be flooded, according to government proposals.
Comparing the Policy of Aboriginal Assimilation: Australia, Canada, and New Zealand
E-Books
Author/Creator
Andrew Armitage
A Comparison of Canadian and American Treaty-Making Policy With the Plains Indians, 1867-1877
Theses
Author/Creator
Jill St. Germain
Description
Canadian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1998.
A Comparison of First Nations and Non-Aboriginal Children Investigated for Maltreatment in Canada in 2003
Alternate Title
CECW Information Sheet ; no. 66
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Bruce MacLaurin
Nico Trocmé
Barbara Fallon
Cindy Blackstock
Lisa Pitman
Megan McCormack
Description
Looks at the Mesnmimk Wasatek Report for influences affecting First Nations children in the Canadian child welfare system.
A Compendium of Aboriginal Healing Foundation Research
E-Books
Author/Creator
The Aboriginal Healing Foundation
Description
Abstracts of works in the Research Series.
Aboriginal Sexual Offending in Canada by John H. Hylton.
Mental Health Profiles for a Sample of British Columbia's Aboriginal Survivors of the Canadian Residential School System by Raymond R. Corrado, Irwin M.
Competing Claims, Uncertain Sovereignties: Resource Conflict and Evolving Tripartite Federalism in Yukon Territory, Canada
Theses
Author/Creator
Steven Mitchell Cohn
Description
Wildland Resource Science Thesis, (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2001.
A Complex Ecological Framework of Aboriginal Family Resilience
Alternate Title
[First Nations, First Thoughts Conference]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Patti LaBoucane-Benson
Description
Discusses the need to develop strategies for assisting communities move forward by understanding both the traditional and contemporary family dynamic.
Complexity and Sustainable Development in the Circumpolar North: Positioning Canada in the Arctic Council
Theses
Author/Creator
Randy Lee Cleveland
Description
Planning Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 1998.
Comprehensive Claims: (Modern Treaties) In Canada: March 1996
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC)
Description
Provides background, definition and description of the claims process, as well as a list of claims settled since 1973.
Conceptualizing Aboriginal Health Centres in the Northwest Territories: A Discussion Paper
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Karen Hall
Description
Promotes the importance of self-determination as a determinant of positive health outcomes.
Conceptualizing Food Security for Aboriginal People in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elaine M. Power
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 99, no. 2, March/April 2008, pp. 95-97
Description
Discusses how public health must take full account of the traditional food practices of Aboriginal people including the harvesting, sharing, and consumption of country and traditional foods.
Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women: Canada
Alternate Title
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Forty-second Session, 20 October-7 November 2008
United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Description
For materials relevant to Aboriginal women, see points 17-20 (matrimonial real property) and 29-32 (violence and missing or murdered).
Confederation Debates, 1865-1949: Intermediate/Senior Mini Unit: Manitoba Provincial Edition
Documents & Presentations
Description
After reading background information, brief biographies and primary materials, students engage in a debate between the pro- and anti-Confederation factions. Activities align with Manitoba curriculum guides for Grade 6 Social Studies and Grade 11 History of Canada.
Confederation Debates, 1865-1949: Intermediate/Senior Mini Unit: Saskatchewan Provincial Edition
E-Books
Description
After reading background information, brief biographies and primary materials, students engage in a debate between the pro- and anti-Confederation factions. This edition is aligned with the Saskatchewan provincial curriculum for History 30: Canadian Studies, Native Studies 10, and Native Studies 30.
Confirming Rights: Inter-American Court Ruling Marks Key Victory for Sarayaku People in Ecuador
Articles » General
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 3, Defending Life First, September 2012, p. [?]
Description
Discusses how the government neglected cultural rights by illegally licensing an oil company to do business on traditional lands without community consent.
Conflicting Discourses in Canadian Aboriginal Politics : A Case Study of the First Nations Governance Initiative
Theses
Author/Creator
Stéphanie Boisard
Description
Political Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2003.
Conflicting Outlooks: The Background to the 1924 Deposing of the Six Nations Hereditary Council
Theses
Author/Creator
Scott R. Trevithick
Description
History Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Calgary, 1998.
The Confrontation at Rivières aux Ilets de Bois
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Allen Ronaghan
Prairie Forum, vol. 14, no. 1, Spring, 1989, pp. 1-7
Description
Examines the confrontation in 1871 at Rivières aux Ilets de Bois regarding land granted to the Métis under the Manitoba Act of 1870. This land was originally given without title property and than later given in concession to new immigrants from Ontario.
The Confrontations at Rivière aux Îlets-de-Bois
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alan B. McCullough
Manitoba History, vol. 67, Winter, 2012, pp. 2-13
Description
Discusses the land claim confrontations between the Métis and Ontario settlers in 1871.
Conquest Through Benevolence: The Indian Residential School Apology and the (Re)Making of the Innocent Canadian Settler Subject
Theses
Author/Creator
Laura McKinley
Description
Leadership, Higher and Adult Education Thesis (M.A.)--Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 2014.
Conscious Choice of Convenience: The Relocation of the Mushuau Innu of Davis Inlet, Labrador
Theses
Author/Creator
Timothy A. Powers
Description
Atlantic Canada Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Saint Mary's University, 1997.
Conservancies in British Columbia, Canada: Bringing Together Protected Areas and First Nations' Interests
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Katherine L. Turner
Christopher P. H. Bitonti
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 2, no. 2, 2011, pp. 1-15
Description
Reviews First Nations' role in provincial land and resource management and conservation and the related opportunities and challenges of Conservancy designation.
Conservation Controversy: Sparrow, Marshall, and the Mi'kmaq of Esgenoôpetitj
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sarah J. King
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 2, no. 4, Traditional Knowledge, Spirituality and Lands, 2011, pp. 1-14
Description
Explores traditional beliefs used in conservation management in relation to decisions from the Supreme Court.
Conservatives Back Down on Ile-a-la-Crosse Promise
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Paul Barnsley
Windspeaker, vol. 24, no. 11, February 2007, p. 8
Description
Indian Affairs Minister Jim Prentice announces, "Métis students who attended the [Ile-a-la-Crosse Residential] school" will not be part of the Indian residential school compensation agreement.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.8.
Consolidated Democracies and the Past: Transitional Justice in Spain and Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ian Dunbar
Federal Governance, vol. 8, no. 2, Federalism and Conflict Management, 2011, pp. 15-28
Description
Illustrates how two countries deal with historical legacies of violence and repression.
Consolidated Mandate
Alternate Title
Consolidated Mandate of the Indian Claims Commission
Web Sites » Governmental
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
Establishment of mandate, by Order-in-Council P.C. 1991-1329, of an agency to consider and conduct inquiries into certain matters related to land claims by First Nations in Canada. The mandate also spells out the end for the Indian Claims Commission by asking for final reporting March 31, 2009. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
The Constitutional Right of an Enriched Livelihood
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James (Sakej) Youngblood Henderson
The Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 4, no. 1, Special Edition: Value(s) Added: Sharing Voices on Aboriginal CED, Fall, 2004, pp. 43-58
Description
Looks at a paper presented at the, Value(s) Added: Sharing Voices on Aboriginal Economic Development: A Practitioner/Multidisciplinary Conference, and discusses the impact of law on economic development.
Constructing and Deconstructing the Railway Through Reserves in British Columbia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nadine Schuurman
Native Studies Review, vol. 13, no. 1, 2000, pp. 19-39
Description
Investigates how the state facilitated railway construction through First Nations reserves as a framework of colonialism.
Constructing and Enforcing the "Medicine Line": A Comparative Analysis of Indian Policy on the North American Frontier
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Pierre M. Atlas
American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 46, no. 3, 2016, pp. 320-348
Description
Compares federal policies towards First Nations and American Indians post/civil war and post-Confederation.
Constructing National Community and Indigenous-settler Reconciliation
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Rachel Busbridge
Description
Comments on the Australian Government's 2008 Stolen Generations apology and notes where it has failed.
The Construction of Dependency: The Case of the Grand Rapids Hydro Project
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Martin Loney
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, 1987, pp. 57-78
Description
Impact of settlements made in 1960-1962 between Manitoba Hydro and Cree bands to compensate for the flooding of Cree lands and the relocation of an entire village. Maintains that, as a result, these bands have changed from self-sufficiency to dependent societies with many social problems.
Contemporary & Desired Use of Traditional Resources in a Coast Salish Community: Implications for Food Security and Aboriginal Rights in British Columbia
Alternate Title
Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnobiology ; 26th, 2003
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Karen Fediuk
Brian Thom
Description
Results from survey of 191 households conducted by the Hul'qumi'num Treaty Group (Cowichan, Chemainus, Penelakut, Lyackson, Halalt and Lake Cowichan First Nations) to determine actual and wished for levels of harvesting of traditional foods.
Contemporary Regulation of Public Policy Participation of the Saami and Roma: A Truncated Process
Alternate Title
Contemporary Regulation of Public Policy Participation of the Sami and Roma: A Truncated Process
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Konstantia Koutouki
Doris Farget
International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, vol. 19, no. 4, 2012, pp. 427-451
Description
Assesses current participatory system for shortcomings and presents available options.
Contested Visions of First Nations Governance: Secondary Analysis of Federal Government Research on the Opinions of On-Reserve Residents
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
J. Rick Ponting
Linda J. Henderson
Canadian Ethnic Studies , vol. 37, no. 1, 2005, pp. 63-86
Description
Analysis of a survey of on-reserve opinions regarding the federal policy on Aboriginal self-government.
Contesting the Colonial Order on the Canadian Prairies: Government Policy, Indigenous Resistance and the Administration of Treaty 6, 1870-1890
Theses
Author/Creator
Melanie Niemi-Bohun
Description
History and Classics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 2016.
The Context of Country Food: Understanding Aboriginal Food Security in the Canadian Arctic
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Carly Donaldson
Capstone Seminar Series, vol. 2, no. 1, Belonging in Canada: Questions and Challenges, Spring, April 2012, pp. 1-19
Description
Argues that the federal government's Nutrition North Canada program fails to meet the needs of northern residents because it fails to take into account the health and cultural aspects of traditional foods.
Contextualizing the Losses of Allotment Thought Literature
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kristen A. Carpenter
North Dakota Law Review, vol. 82, no. 3, The Pedagogy of American Indian Law, 2006, pp. 605-627
Description
Discusses two novels by Louise Erdrich, Lone Wolf and Tracks and Four Souls to show losses in socio-economic, familial, spiritual and tribal life.
Contrasting Arctic and Mainstream Swedish Descriptions of Northern Sweden: The View From Established Domestic Research
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
E.C.H. Kedkitalo
G. Malmberg
K. Westin
U. Wiberg
D. K. Müller
Ö. Pettersson
Arctic, vol. 66, no. 3, September 2013, pp. 351-365
Description
Examines the higher profile that Sweden has chosen to take regarding assumption of the chairmanship of the Arctic Council.