Book review of: Rediscovering the First Nations of Canada by John Friesen.

Promotes a holistic approach to address government approaches to Aboriginal claims.

Describes how collaboration between professionals and other key individuals and improved sexual education programming might achieve a 50% reduction in the abortion rate within 5 years.

Discusses how policy development can help Inuit reduce their vulnerability to climate change by focusing on the renewable resource harvesting sector.

Examines the impacts and repercussions of the government system between 1941 and 1978 that required Inuit to wear a numbered identity disk.

Argues that healing is a critical component of any intervention. The article also gives a short history of residential school trauma and recent government initiatives aimed at preserving traditional Aboriginal healing practices.

Sociology and Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1994.

Describes the current role of Medicaid in financing health care services in the United States, and offers three suggestions for reforming Medicaid.

Study on First Nations elementary and secondary education in Canada with recommendations for achieving reform.

Analysis of the federal government's inability to come to terms with contemporary (2003) policy decisions and court decisions such as the Corbiere case.

Looks at inclusion of local values and visions in the forest governance, ecosystems and development shared between First Nations and partner municipalities.

Provides a picture of health care administration governance including Bands, Tribal Councils, health transfer programs and health plans.

Compares supporting policies and existing barriers for Indigenous participation in planning and delivery of community based primary health services.

Law Thesis (LL.M.)--University of Western Ontario, 2016.

Anthropology and Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 1998.

The file contains a book entitled "Regulations for Medical Services" intended for Indian Agents and issued by the Department of Indian Affairs in 1934. The book covers topics such as the responsibilities and roles of various government employees in the Department with regards to Aboriginal health; the rules regarding hospital admissions; dental services; post mortem examinations; reporting communicable diseases; the use of aeroplanes; and vaccination regulations.

Historical note:

Harold Nelson Woodsworth served as an Indian Agent at a number of agencies in Saskatchewan.

The file contains a book entitled "Regulations Relating to the Education of Indian Children" issued by the Government of Canada in 1908. The regulations deal with the role and responsibilities of Indian Agents in carrying out educational policy; sectarian schools; and related matters.

Historical note:

Harold Nelson Woodsworth served as an Indian Agent at a number of agencies in Saskatchewan.

Canadian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1989.

Response by author to critical commentary of her paper, Treaty Fishing Rights and the Development of Fisheries Legislation in Ontario: A Primer found in Native Studies Review ( vol.7, no.1, 1991).

Study includes: statistical overview, factors affecting industry-First Nations partnerships, details of particular issues in each province and territory, and recommendations for future partnerships.

Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2001.

Website includes photographs and documents about Residential and Day Schools from Ontario with plans for the rest of Canada to follow.

History Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2015.

Researcher relates oral histories about members of the Peepeekisis Reserve concerning the experimental agricultural farm that was established to continue the work of the residential schools and to keep students from returning to their "uncivilized" ways.

Describes program to recruit more General Practitioners (GPs) to practice medicine in rural and remote areas of Northern Territory, Australia.

Examines the progress of cultural loss claims and explores tort law's potential to address the issue.

Outlines Canada’s approach to treaty negotiations, and also includes a section specifically outlining the British Columbia treaty process.

Discusses attempts to balance the benefits of proactive measures with increased costs and extended hospital stays in distant locations.

Discusses the government's ongoing failure to address the wrong perpetuated against victims of removal policies and its commitment to reconciliation.

Purpose of commission was to investigate methods of consultation which would ensure Indian and Inuit participation in decisions about the health care programs affecting them, and to make a recommendation as to which one should be adopted by the Department of Health and Welfare.

Summary of a ratified settlement of $10.4 million in compensation, with authorization to purchase 38 thousand acres of land. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Reviews human rights issues around social and economic conditions, truth and reconciliation, missing women and girls, self-government participation and partnership, treaty negotiation and resource development. Provides recommendations. Advance unedited version.

Report submitted in 1879 to the Canadian Minister of the Interior. Describes system used in the United States and makes recommendations regarding the possible establishment of similar institutions in the North-West Territories of the Dominion of Canada.

Comprehensive inquiry into the state of the Aboriginal peoples of British North America.

Historical background and report on mediation by the Indian Claims Commission (ICC) to resolve dispute over 192 acres wrongfully alienated in 1831. Proposed Settlement Agreement was negotiated and ratified. Chief Commissioner : Harry LaForme. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Historical background and submission to Indian Claims Commission (ICC)regarding Horse Island. ICC recommends that the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (DIAND) write to all the First Nations whose claims were rejected because of the policy against the pre-Confederation claims so they can be reconsidered. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Discusses the events leading up to the settlement of the Clench Defalcation claim and looks at the role the Commission played in the resolution process. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Submission of treaty land entitlement claim to the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development for a shortfall of entitlement lands based on additions to band membership after the first survey. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Attempts to correct misconceptions about the policies, intentions and actions of the Dominion Government.

Experiences of urban Aboriginal Peoples in Canada and issues that effect urban Aboriginal Peoples in Toronto, Ontario.

Examines the government's decision to move 92 Inuit to two locations on uninhabited and inhospitable High Arctic islands as a way to assert Canadian sovereignty in the region.

Comments on the government intervention program.

Looks at print media coverage between 2010-2012 focusing on the connection between representations of truth and reconciliation.

A collection of objects presents an Aboriginal approach to telling stories about the removal of Aboriginal children from their families.