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Ontological Destruction: Genocide and Canadian Aboriginal Peoples

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrew Woolford
Genocide Studies and Prevention, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 2009, pp. 81-97
Looks at how Aboriginal groups experienced assimilation in different ways and discusses the separation between cultural and physical forms of destruction.
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Opaskwayak Cree Nation: Streets and Lane Inquiry

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Inquiry regarding land surrendered in 1906 to create The Pas town site for which adequate compensation was never received. Commissioners include: Daniel J. Bellegarde, Alan C. Holman, and Sheila G. Purdy. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
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Opaskwayak Cree Nation, Streets and Lanes Claim

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission

FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Consists of historical documents, correspondence/letters, legal documents, maps, plans, and the Final Report in French and English.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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[Open Letter to the Prime Minister (Australia)]

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Brian Butler
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 31, no. 5, September/October 2007, p. 23
Letter written to Australian Prime Minister John Howard commenting on the government's record toward Aboriginal peoples.
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[Opening Remarks and Keynote]

Alternate Title
[Patterns of Health and Wellbeing: An Intercultural Symposium ; 02]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Beverly Kiohawiton Cook
Webcast of the keynote speaker from the Patterns of Health and Wellbeing Symposium, Beverly Cook, who speaks on child sexual abuse and the ACE program (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Duration: 31:58.
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Options for the Future of Indigenous Australia

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jackie Huggins
Jenny Macklin
Lynette Glendinning
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 32, no. 4, July/August 2008, pp. 21-35
Presents team recommendations on how Australia might achieve fundamental change for Aboriginal and Torres Strait people.
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Order of Canada Awarded to David Ahenakew

Images » Photographs
File contains one black and white photograph of Governor General Ed Schreyer awarding the Order of Canada to David Ahenakew in May, 1979.

Historical note:

David Ahenakew (born July 28, 1933) is a Canadian First Nations politician, and former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations. Ahenakew is a controversial public figure in Canada due to anti-semetic comments regarding World War 2 and the Holocaust.
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Organizational Maladies and Bureaucratic Prescriptions: The Federal Cabinet Directive on Modern Treaty Implementation

Alternate Title
Pacific Business & Law Institute Canadian Aboriginal Law Conference ;
[Aboriginal Impact Benefit Agreements: Negotiation and Implementation]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jessica Orkin
Cassandra Porter
Discusses government's inertia in fulfilling terms of agreements and the machinery-of-government initiative which is meant to address problems with implementation.
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Ottawa Again Tries 'Pan-Aboriginal' Strategy

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
StarPhoenix, July 23, 2004, p. A13
Assembly of First Nations (AFN) voices concern that the responsibilities of the new minister of Indian Affairs, Andy Scott, are too broad.
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Ottawa Experimented on Native Kids

Articles » General
Author/Creator
David Napier
Anglican Journal, vol. 126, no. 5, May 2000, p. 1
Records located in the National Archives reveal dental and nutritional studies conducted at residential schools.
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Ottawa Makes Unilateral Offer

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Solange De Santis
Anglican Journal, vol. 127, no. 10, December 2001, p. 1
Federal government will pay 70 per cent of proven out-of-court damage settlements but refuses to put a cap on churches liability in residential schools lawsuits.
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Ottawa Moves to Resolve Crisis

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Solange De Santis
Anglican Journal, vol. 126, no. 10, December 2000, p. 1
Prime Minister directs Herb Gray to look for solutions, but numerous unresolved issues remain between federal government and churches in residential schools dispute.
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Our Children Our Future

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Kerrie Tim
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 25, no. 5, September/October 2001, pp. 32-35
Presentation at a Rekindling Family Relationships Forum in Australia describes the various initiatives taking place to reduce family violence.
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Our Land

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
John Cuthand
Publication of the Manitoba Metis Lands Commission, with articles on English / French explorers and fur traders, the Pemmican War, the Battle of Seven Oaks, the Manitoba Lands Act, and a questionnaire relating to the study of Metish Lands Claims.
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Our Right to Communicate: Getting the World to Listen

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Anselmo Xunic
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 3, The World on Our Shoulders: Cultivating Indigenous Youth Leadership, September 2013, p. [?]
Discusses the challenges community radio stations are facing because of the telecommunications law that does not allow licenses for non-profit community radio stations.
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Out in the Cold: The Legacy of Canada's Inuit Relocation Experiment in the Arctic

Alternate Title
IWGIA [International Working Group for Indigenous Affairs] ; document 71
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Alan R. Marcus
Examines the government's decision to move families to the High Arctic where they found conditions very different from their traditional territory, as well as its refusal to move them back at the of end two years as promised. Government claims it was done for humanitarian reasons, while others assert that it was carried out to establish sovereignty over the area.
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Out of Irrelevance

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
D. Bruce Sealey
Prairie Forum, vol. 6, no. 1, Spring, 1981, pp. 101-102
Book review of: Out of irrelevance by J. R. Ponting and R. Gibbins.
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Out of the Rhetoric and Into the Reality of Local Women's Lives

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Vicki Hallett
Gail Baikie
Submission presented on the development of the Muskrat Falls Hydro-Electric Development project voices concerns about the socio-economic impacts, inferior Environmental Impact Assessment by NALCOR, and provides suggestions for preventing negative social impacts on women and communities in the Upper Lake Melville region.
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Outstanding Business: A Native Claims Policy: Specific Claims

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patricia Sawchuk
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, 1982, pp. 347-351
An introduction, including excerpts from the publication Outstanding Business - A Native Claims Policy published by the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs in 1982.
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An Overview of Aboriginal Health in Canada

Alternate Title
Setting the Context
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
National Collaborating Centre For Aboriginal Health (NCCAH)
Fact sheet looks at the social, economic and political determinants impacting health, policies and programs for First Nations, Inuit and Métis people.
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Owen Glendower, Hotspur, and Canadian Indian Policy

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
J. R. Miller
Ethnohistory, vol. 37, no. 4, Fall, 1990, pp. 386-415
Discusses cultural suppression and resistance recorded through oral history and historical documentation.
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Pact Foreseen 'In a Few Months'

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Solange De Santis
Anglican Journal, vol. 128, no. 6, June 2002, p. 1, 9
Negotiators with the federal government and churches hope to reach agreement on payment in the residential schools issue soon.
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Painting the Vision

Alternate Title
Undefeated: Part III
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
J. M. MacDonald
The Beaver, vol. 71, no. 4, August/September 1991, pp. 49-?
Describes the process of transferring St. Peter's Reserve north of Winnipeg from the Ojibwe people to real estate speculators.
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Paper on First Nations Education Funding

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
First Nations Education Council
Discusses the financial resources needed to provide acceptable, quality education for students of all levels.
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