Objective was to gain a clearer understanding of patterns for each specific Aboriginal group in order to develop more effective programs and policies.

Topics include: key documents and reports, history, demographics, issues and challenges, barriers to higher education, and recommendations aimed at improving recruitment and retention.

Using new information estimates costs for sustaining First Nations school infrastructure to be $39 million in 2013-14 with future requirements due to student population growth reaching $47 million by 2028-29.

Legal Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1997.

Discusses the crimes against humanity in Indian residential schools and appropriate measures that could be implemented to address those injustices.

Education Thesis (M.Ed)--University of New Brunswick, 2008.

Argues Elders in Saskatchewan have been arguing for sustainability ever since the time of the Treaties.

Women's Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Institute for Women's Studies, University of Ottawa, 2011.

Topics include Aboriginal title, treaties, the Métis, duty to consult, and land claims. 3rd edition.

Looks at issues raised with the Canadian political system and reviews two different concepts for Canadian citizenship. Scroll down to page 52 to read article.

Resource Management and Environmental Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2003.

FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Consists of historical documents, maps, correspondence/letters, bulletins, legal documents, transcripts, submissions and the English and French versions of the Final Report. [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.]

Book review of: Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance and Reserves in British Columbia by Cole Harris.

Discusses causes of current disparities in educational attainment, future goals for enrolment and graduation, and economic gains from higher education. Final draft.

Discusses the task of electing a new national chief for the Assembly of First Nations formerly filled by Phil Fontaine. Fontaine was the first high-profile First Nations leader to reveal the abuse he suffered in a residential school which eventually led to compensation payments and an official apology from the Prime Minister.

Looks at determinants of access to adequate quantities of nutritious food for First Nations' communities in Northern Ontario.

Native Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2017.

Overview of the issues surrounding food security including role of traditional food, social and environmental issues, quality, cost and accessibility.

Looks at solutions to the crises of food insecurity and ill health including a food subsidy program and increased access to traditional foods.

Based on information gathered through 38 witness testimonies, eight meetings and 10 written briefs, report discusses causes of food insecurity, effects of climate change and food degradation, the Nutrition North Canada program, and the need for government support of community-based solutions. "June 2021, 43rd Parliament, 2nd Session".

Interdisciplinary Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University, 2009.

Argues that the Government of Canada's Indigenous Housing Strategy creates a large service gap for the 87 per cent of the population that does not reside on reserve and is disproportionately represented among the homeless and those in need of core housing. Proposes a Fourth Strategy to address needs not covered in the existing framework.

Book review of: For King and Kanata by Timothy C. Winegard. Scroll down to page 95 to read review.

2nd edition.

Illustrates federal Indian policies in the twentieth century within a science fiction framework.

Discusses the assimilation policies regarding child removal in the United States and Australia.

Analyzes demographic, environmental and economic changes that have impacted the indigenous people of Vietnam's Central Highlands. To access this article scroll down to page 56.

Discusses issues raised at the International Congresses on Circumpolar Health (ICCH).

Looks at Federation of Saskatchewan Nations chairman of the executive council of the senate, David Ahenakew, who talked about legal action against the Crown, claiming Prime Minister Jean Chretien and Indian Affairs Minister Robert Nault breached their fiduciary duty by increasing their control and power over the affairs and government of First Nations.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.1.

Bishop Gordon Beardy voices objections to parts of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA) at Ontario hearing.

Focuses on ways to build Aboriginal leadership in the education sector and to increase recruitment and retention in post-secondary institutions.

Presented to the 28th Parliament by the Honourable Jean Chrétien.

Essay discusses the content of six recently published books: Indigenous Peoples: A Global Quest for Justice. Indigenous Peoples and the Nation-State: Fourth World Politics in Canada, Australia, and Norway edited by Noel Dyck. The GAIA Atlas of First Peoples: A Future for the Indigenous World by Julian Burger..[ et al.] "Nations Within": Aboriginal-State Relations in Canada, the United States, and New Zealand by Augie Fleras and Jean Leonard Elliott. Indigenous Peoples of the World: An Introduction to Their Past, Present and Future by Brian Goehring. State

Comparison of historical setting, policy, aboriginal rights, federal and provincial/state powers, and self-government.

Personal narrative about researcher's experience as a transracial adoptee and the process of reclaiming her identity as an Indigenous person.

Focuses on protests over ecological and environmental issues, their relation to land claims, and how they have been framed in mainstream media and public policy.

States that archaeology can supply insights into the outcomes of colonialism that are often overlooked by historians.

Looks at the connection between the right to free, prior and informed consent and the work of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK).

Argues that the Federal government's Post-Secondary Student Support Program is failing in its objectives because the money is not being given directly to students and it should be replaced by a Aboriginal Post-Secondary Savings Account opened at birth for each Registered Indian.

Historical background and submissions to Indian Claims Commission (ICC) whether descendents and former members of the Michel Band are entitled to be recognized as members under the Indian Act. ICC concluded Canada has no obligation to recognize or reconstitute the Band; ICC recommended the claim regarding invalid reserve surrenders be submitted to Specific Claims. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Book review of: The Frog Lake Reader by Myrna Kostash.

Overview of Indigenous ways of knowing, education assimilation policy, first Nations control of education and post-secondary Indigenous Studies programs. Entire issue on one pdf. To read article scroll to p. 11.

Discusses the government policy-making decisions of integrating Aboriginal children into the public school system.