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Carry the Kettle First Nation: 1905 Surrender Inquiry

Alternate Title
Indian Claims Commission: Carry the Kettle First Nation: 1905 Surrender Inquiry
E-Books
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Results of the 1988 claim under the Federal Specific Claims Policy which challenged the validity of the 1905 surrender of 5,760 acres of land from the Assiniboine Reserve No. 76. [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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Carry the Kettle First Nation Inquiry: Cypress Hills Claim

E-Books
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Historical background, analysis and recommendations from Indian Claims Commission (ICC) hearings regarding claim that the First Nation was entitled to a reserve surveyed in the Cypress Hills. ICC concluded that no reserve had been created, but recommended that the Government of Canada acquire the site of the Cypress Hills Massacre and recognize its historical significance. [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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Case 8 - First Nations Drinking Water Policies

Alternate Title
Population and Public Health Ethics: Cases From Research, Policy, and Practice
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Mona Shum
Donna Atkinson
Chris Kaposy
Ted Shrecker
Chapter in book: Population and Public Health Ethics: Cases From Research, Policy, and Practice by Canadian Institutes of Health Research - Institute of Population and Public Health. Scroll down to page 92 to read article.
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A Case Compounded Error: The Inuit Resettlement Project, 1953, and the Government Response, 1990

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Shelagh D. Grant
Northern Perspectives, vol. 19, no. 1, Spring, 1991, pp. [3-29]
Looks at the resettlement of seven families from northern Quebec and three families from Pond Inlet to Resolute Bay on Corwallis Island and Grise Fiord on Ellesmere Island and the lack of recognition and apology for contributions made to arctic sovereignty.
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A Case Study of Successful Project Management in Two Indigenous Communities

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dennis Jose
International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 2009, pp. 43-48
Author states that when local community organizations are empowered with the delivery of employment and training programs, the chances of a successful outcome is improved.
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Cash Back: A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Yellowhead Institute
Looks at how the Canadian economy has been built by using Indigenous lands and waterways to create corporate profit and national power and how this process has left First Nations impoverished. Discusses the reparations needed as part of decolonization process.
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Chalifoux Educates Fellow Senators with Horror Stories

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Paul Barnsley
Windspeaker, vol. 19, no. 5, September 2001, p. 10

Senator and Metis leader, Thelma Chalifoux, believes that political lobby groups, like the Assembly of First Nations, should not take over social programs provided for First Nations because, as she argues, politics and patronage distort the system and erode the quality of the service.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.10.

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The Challenge of Collecting Information on the Involvement of Aboriginal People in the Canadian Criminal Justice System

Alternate Title
Statistics Canada International Symposium Series - Proceedings: Symposium 2004: Innovative Methods for Surveying Difficult-to-Reach Populations
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Rebecca Kong
Karen Beattie
Michael Martin
Argues that the collection of information is essential for maintaining government accountability. This manuscript is an abridged version of Collecting Data on Aboriginal People in the Criminal Justice System: Methods and Challenges.
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The Challenge of Governance and the Aboriginal Peoples

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Carolann M. Brewer
Canadian Issues, Our Cities, Winter, 2003, pp. 44-47
Discusses federal policies used in the administration of the Aboriginal people and their lands in Canada. To access article scroll to p. 44.
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Challenging Reconciliation: Indeterminacy, Disagreement, and Canada's Indian Residential Schools' Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joseph J. Z. Weiss
International Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 51, September 2015, pp. 27-56
Argues there isn't a clear idea of what truth and reconciliation should mean to the residential school survivors and Aboriginal people in general. Includes articles from the Aboriginal Healing Foundation report From Truth to Reconciliation: Transforming the Legacy of Residential Schools.
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Challenging the Limits: Indigenous Peoples of the Mekong Region / Living in a Globalized World: Ethnic Minorities in the Greater Mekong Subregion

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Robert Wesley Heber
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 28, no. 1, 2008, pp. 211-212
Book reviews of: Challenging the Limits edited by Prasit Leepreecha, Don McCaskill and Kwanchewan Buadaeng and Living in a Globalized World edited by Don McCaskill, Prasit Leepreecha and He Shaoying. Both books examinethe effects of globalization upon Indigenous hill peoples in this region. Scroll to page 211 to read review.
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A Chance to Make a Difference for this Generation of First Nations Children and Young People: The UNCRC and the Lived Experience of First Nations Children in the Child Welfare System in Canada

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Cindy Blackstock]
Document submitted to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights. Recommendations: provide sustained and equitable funding to agencies, augment services available on reserves, ensure culturally-based services, and develop a national strategy to deal with issues.
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Change Is in All of Us

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Danielle DeLuca
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 1, The Electronic Drum: Community Radios Role in Indigenous Language Revitalization, March 2013, p. [?]
Discussion about the end of the Oxlajuj B'aq'tun and the start of a new era that should be seen as an opportunity for positive renewal to generate changes in society.
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A Change of Residence: Government Schools and Foster

Homes as Sites of Forced Aboriginal Assimilation – A Paper Designed to Provoke Thought and Systemic Change

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cathy Richardson
Bill Nelson
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 3, no. 2, 2007, pp. 75-83
Discusses similarities of two residential structures, government schools and foster homes, that have housed Aboriginal children when they were removed from their people. The paper is an attempt to influence child welfare practice in ways that would respect the integrity of family and Aboriginal communities.
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Changes in Saami Socioeconomic Institutions in Jokkmokk Parish 1720-1890

Alternate Title
Changes in Sami Socioeconomic Institutions in Jokkmokk Parish 1720-1890
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Roger Kvist
Robert Wheelersburg
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 34, no. 2, 1997, pp. 1-11
Discusses the changes in socioeconomic structures and the cooperative hunting/herding model resulting in loss of land and resource rights.
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Chapter 5: First Nation Representation

Alternate Title
Good Governance: A Guide for Trustees, School Boards, Directors of Education and Communities
E-Books » Chapters
Chapter 5 in: Good Governance: A Guide for Trustees, School Boards, Directors of Education and Communities by the Ontario School Trustees. Discusses education in First Nations communities and the role of school board.
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Chasing Paper: Forms over Function in First Nation Administration

Alternate Title
Research Report (Northern Policy Institute) ; no. 47
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Caitlin McAuliffe
Discusses the reporting relationship between federal funders and First Nations governments using the Nipissing First Nations as a case study. Looks at discrepancies and challenges faced by communities and funders' accountability and transparency, as well as best practices in data governance, partnerships, and data collection models.
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Chief Loco: Apache Peacemaker

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
T. Christopher Aplin

American Indian Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 3, Summer, 2011, pp. 464-466
Book review of: Chief Loco: Apache Peacemaker by Bud Shapard.
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Chippewa Tri-Council Inquiry: Beausoleil First Nation, Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation, Chippewas of Mnjikaning (Rama) First Nation: Coldwater-Narrows Reservation Surrender Claim

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Historical background of claim presented to the Indian Claims Commission (ICC) concerning the validity of the surrender of the reserve to the Crown. No inquiry was conducted as the claim was accepted for negotiation under the Specific Claims Policy. Commissioners include: Roger J. Augstine, Daniel J. Bellegarde, and Renée Dupuis. [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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Chippewas of Kettle & Stoney Point First Nation Inquiry, 1927 Surrender Claim, Public Edition, July 2008

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission

FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contains historical documents, transcripts, correspondence/letters, reports, exhibits, minutes, and submissions regarding the surrender of some of the reserve lands in 1927, 100 years after the treaty was signed. Commissioners include: Roger J. Augstine and Daniel J. Bellegarde.

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Chippewas of the Thames First Nation, Clench Defalcation Claim, Public Edition, July 2008

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contains historical documents and reports relating to a claim by the Thames First Nation of misappropriation of funds by Joseph Brant Clench, an officer with the Indian Department in 1854. Commissioners include: Phil Fontaine and Daniel J. Bellegarde. [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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Chippewas of the Thames First Nation Inquiry: Clench Defalcation Claim

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Indian Claims Commission (ICC) was to determine if moneys owed by Crown from the sale of surrendered land had been wrongfully appropriated by an officer of the Indian Dept. No inquiry was conducted as after several planning sessions, Canada accepted the claim for negotiation. Commissioners include: Phil Fontaine and Daniel J. Bellegarde. [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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Chippewas Tri-Council Coldwater-Narrows Reservation, July 2008

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contains historical documents, draft reports and both the English and French inquiry reports relating to a claim alleging that the reservation had never been properly surrendered to the Crown. Commissioners include: Roger J. Augustine, Daniel J. Bellegarde, and Renée Dupuis. [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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Church Seeks Members' Help

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Vianney Carriere
Anglican Journal, vol. 126, no. 8, October 2000, p. 1
Campaign to urge federal government to settle the residential schools issue.
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CIHR Spurns Aboriginal Researchers' Call For Reconciliation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura Eggertson
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 188, no. 5, March 15, 2016, pp. E75-E76
Reports that Aboriginal health projects receive less than 1% of the funding awarded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
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Circles of Disadvantage: Aboriginal Poverty and Underdevelopment in Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joan Kendall
American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 31, no. 1-2, [Aboriginal Peoples: Special Issue], Spring/Summer, 2001, pp. 43-59
Discusses the poor socio-economic conditions faced by many Aboriginal people in Canada and initiatives undertaken to address these problems.
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Citizens Minus: Indians and the Right to Vote

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Richard H. Bartlett
Saskatchewan Law Review, vol. 44, 1979-1980, pp. 163-194
Significance of the history of the denial of the vote to Aboriginal peoples of Canada.
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Citizens Plus

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Indian Chiefs of Alberta
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, 2011, pp. 188-281

Also known as the "Red Paper". Written in response to the White Paper Policy, discusses the political and legal debates concerning the position of Aboriginal peoples in Canada.

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