Policy
Best Left as Indians: The Federal Government and the Indians of the Yukon, 1894-1950
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ken Coates
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, 1984, pp. 179-204
Description
After examining the development of Indian policy in the Yukon Territories, government agents were required to adjust procedures and policies from a national perspective to better meet regional realities.
Betsiamites Band Council, Route 138 and the Betsiamites Reserve, Public Edition, July 2008
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Consists of bilingual annotated index, historical documents, maps, correspondence/letters, Band Council documents and final reports relating to the Band's claims alleging that reserve lands taken for highway use were never surrendered to Canada and/or transferred to the Province of Quebec. Commissioners include: Sheila G. Purdy and Alan C. Holman. [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.]
Betsiamites Band: Highway 138 and Riviére Betsiamites Bridge Inquiries
E-Books
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
Historical background, analysis, and recommendation from Indian Claims Commission (ICC). Issue whether land used for projects was lawfully surrendered or expropriated. No determination by ICC as parties agreed to negotiate a settlement. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Betsiamites Band: Highway 138 and Rivière Betsiamites Bridge Inquiries - Final Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
Final report regarding the two specific claims arguing that reserve lands taken for highway construction were never surrendered to Canada and/or transferred to the Province of Quebec. Commissioners include : Sheila G. Purdy and Alan C. Holman.
[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.]
The Better Living Diabetes Project
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Susanne Pearce
Ann-Marie Thomas
Don Gorman
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 29, no. 1, January/February 2005, pp. 4-6
Description
Summarizes the progress of the project, focusing on the strategies and tools used to influence a positive outcome.
Beyond a Number: Inuit Photo Exhibit Brings Controversial 'Eskimo' I.D. System to Light
Alternate Title
Day 6 ; episode 348, July 28, 2017
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Barry Pottle
[Jelena Adzic]
Description
Podcast of Interview with artist about his exhibition Awareness Series which focuses on the government's policy of issuing numbered disks to Inuit rather than referring to them by name.
Duration: 6:54.
Beyond Church and State: Rethinking Who Knew What When About Residential Schooling in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anthony Di Mascio
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 7, no. 2, [2012], pp. 85-96
Description
Study suggests that by moving beyond church and state officials, we can better understand ourselves and the history of the incidents in order to heal and reconcile.
Beyond Closing the Gap: Valuing Diversity in Indigenous Australia
Alternate Title
CAEPR Working Paper; no. 54/2009
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
J. C. Altman
p. 18
Description
Argues that there is an over-emphasis in the Closing the Gap approach on equality between Indigenous and other Australians and too little emphasis on diversity and difference.
Bigstone Cree First Nation, TLE Claim Inquiry, Public Edition, July 2008
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains interviews, presentations, statements, reports, correspondence/letters and documents regarding the Treaty Land Entitlement process for the Alberta First Nation. Commissioners include: Daniel J. Bellegarde, P.E. James Prentice, and Carole T. Corcoran.
Bigstone Cree First Nation, TLE Claim Inquiry, Public Edition, July 2008
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains interviews, presentations, statements, reports, correspondence/letters and documents regarding the Treaty Land Entitlement process for the Alberta First Nation. Commissioners include: Daniel J. Bellegarde, P.E. James Prentice, and Carole T. Corcoran.
Bigstone Cree First Nation, TLE Claim Inquiry, Public Edition, July 2008
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains interviews, presentations, statements, reports, correspondence/letters and documents regarding the Treaty Land Entitlement process for the Alberta First Nation. Commissioners include: Daniel J. Bellegarde, P.E. James Prentice, and Carole T. Corcoran.
Bigstone Cree First Nation, TLE Claim Inquiry, Public Edition, July 2008
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains interviews, presentations, statements, reports, correspondence/letters and documents regarding the Treaty Land Entitlement process for the Alberta First Nation. Commissioners include: Daniel J. Bellegarde, P.E. James Prentice, and Carole T. Corcoran.
Bigstone Cree First Nation, TLE Claim Inquiry, Public Edition, July 2008
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains interviews, presentations, statements, reports, correspondence/letters and documents regarding the Treaty Land Entitlement process for the Alberta First Nation. Commissioners include: Daniel J. Bellegarde, P.E. James Prentice, and Carole T. Corcoran.
Bigstone Cree First Nation, TLE Claim Inquiry, Public Edition, July 2008
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains interviews, presentations, statements, reports, correspondence/letters and documents regarding the Treaty Land Entitlement process for the Alberta First Nation. Commissioners include: Daniel J. Bellegarde, P.E. James Prentice, and Carole T. Corcoran.
Bigstone Cree First Nation, TLE Claim Inquiry, Public Edition, July 2008
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains interviews, presentations, statements, reports, correspondence/letters and documents regarding the Treaty Land Entitlement process for the Alberta First Nation. Commissioners include: Daniel J. Bellegarde, P.E. James Prentice, and Carole T. Corcoran.
Bigstone Cree Nation Inquiry: Treaty Land Entitlement Claim
E-Books
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
Final report examines historical background, analyses, and recommendation from Indian Claims Commission (ICC) hearings on the claim by the First Nation that the amount of acreage allotted was less than they were entitled to under the provisions of Treaty 8. Due to new Treaty Land Entitlement policy, the two parties agreed to negotiate a settlement and no determination was made by the ICC. Commissioners include : Daniel J. Bellegarde, P.E. James Prentice, and Carole T. Corcoran.
Bill C - 31. - [ca. 1985?].
Documents & Presentations
Description
This file contains Barron's typed notes: Background Notes Bill C-31: An Act to Amend the Indian Act. An excellent overview of the act and the people in the First Nations community who were affected by it. It also has statistics, dates and the specific laws changed by the Bill.
Bill C-92 Compliance Guide for Social Workers and Service Providers
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Koren Lightning-Earle
Hadley Friedland]
Description
Bill C-92: : An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families which came into force on January 1, 2020, established national minimum standards for Child and Family Service provision to Indigenous children and families.
Bioethicists Call for Investigation into Nutritional Experiments on Aboriginal People
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Miriam Shuchman
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 185, no. 14, October 1, 2013, pp. e1201-e1202
Description
Discusses how malnourished Aboriginals in Canada served as unwitting and unprotected subjects in government-sponsored experiments in the 1940s and 1950s.
Biological Absorption and Genocide: A Comparison of Indigenous Assimilation Policies in the United States and Australia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Katherine Ellinghaus
Genocide Studies and Prevention, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 2009, pp. 59-79
Description
Discusses theories which were based on the premise that interracial relationships would basically 'breed out' Indigenous people.
Birth of a Family
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Tasha Hubbard
Betty Ann Adam
Bonnie Thompson
David Christensen
National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
Description
Documentary about three sisters and a brother meeting for the first time after being taken from their mother and adopted out as part of the "Sixties Scoop".
Duration: 1:19:21.
Birth of a Family [Educational Version]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
National Film Board (NFB)
Tasha Hubbard
Betty Ann Adam
Bonnie Thompson
David Christensen
Description
Documentary about three sisters and a brother meeting for the first time after being taken from their mother and adopted out as part of the "Sixties Scoop". Edited version of the original.
Duration: 45:00.
Related material:
Mini-Lesson.
The Birth of a Nation: Accounting and Canada's First Nations, 1860-1900
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dean Neu
Cameron Graham
Accounting, Organizations and Society, vol. 31, no. 1, January 2006, pp. 47-76
Description
Examines how the 1860 - 1900 Canadian government used accounting/funding mechanisms to put policies, regarding Indigenous peoples, into practice and discusses the historical consequences of such actions.
Black Dollars Go Everywhere But To Blacks
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Joel Gibson
Debra Jopson
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 31, no. 5, September/October 2007, p. 21
Description
Chronicles creative accounting practices by the Australian government pertaining to their definition of 'spending' on Indigenous affairs.
The Blakeney Government and the Settlement of Treaty Indian Land Entitlements in Saskatchewan, 1975-1982
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James M. Pitsula
Journal of the Canadian Historical Association: Historical Papers, vol. 24, no. 1, 1989, pp. 190-209
Description
Discussion of the conflict between the provincial government understanding of 'spirit and intent' of Treaty and the inflexible Federal Office of Native Claims' preoccupation with "lawful obligation."
Blockades or Breakthroughs? Aboriginal Peoples Confront the Canadian State
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Sarah Nickel
BC Studies, no. 191, Autumn, 2016, pp. 165-167
Description
Book review of: Blockades or Breakthroughs? Aboriginal Peoples Confront the Canadian State edited by Yale D. Belanger and P. Whitney Lackenbauer.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 165.
Blood Tribe / Kainaiwa Big Claim Inquiry - Final Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
Examines whether the rejected claim was properly resolved. Commissioners include: Daniel J. Bellegarde and Alan C. Holman.
[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.]
Blood Tribe/Kainaiwa Inquiry: 1889 Akers Surrender
E-Books
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
Historical background and submissions to Indian Claims Commission (ICC) about whether a clerical error by the federal government resulted in 440 acres of mineral-rich land being taken without consent or compensation. No determination by ICC as parties agreed to negotiate a settlement under the Specific Claims Policy. Commissioners include: P. E. James Prentice, Daniel J. Bellegarde, and Carole T. Corcoran. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]