Claims

Provides overview of Métis history, reviews significant agreements and legislation, indexes case law summaries and discusses new developments.

Contends that after World War II ended, Metis veterans have seen no federally funded compensation, unlike non-Aboriginal veterans, and are ready to deal with the issue at a political level.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.5.

Native Studies Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Saskatchewan, 1997.

Suggests there are three perspectives about Aboriginal claims: legal, cultural, and political; considers Métis claims in cultural and political terms.

Book review of: New Directions in American Indian History by Colin G. Calloway.

Law Thesis (LL.M.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1988.

Introductory article to themed issue. Scroll down to page 3 to read article.

Taken from files of the Department of the Interior, compiled by Lawrence Vankoughnet, Deputy Minister. Starts on page 84.

Comments on the Manitoba Act, 1870, land claims and Métis identity.

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.

Looks at the land scrip system and its failure to communicate interests in property.

Robert Mahood is a medical doctor who worked in the Neestow Student Partnership Project in 1965.

File contains a presentation by Clem Chartier of the Metis Nation - Saskatchewan. Chartier relays the regrets of President Gerald Morin who was unable to attend the sitting, introduces some of the participants in attendance, then discusses Metis land title and land rights issues, hunting rights, economic concerns, self-government and self-determination, policy ideas, personal and collective healing, racism and discrimination, intergovernmental relations, and the Metis Nation Accord in order to "give a holistic view of our organization."

Signed at Fort Norman, Northwest Territories, on September 6, 1993. Volume II. Land Selection Descriptions, Schedule 1 (Appendix E to the Agreement).

Claims Agreement signed in Fort Norman, Northwest Territories, on September 6, 1993 between Canada and the Dene of Colville Lake, Deline, Fort Good Hope and Fort Norman, and Metis of Fort Good Hope, Fort Norman and Norman Wells.

Lists primary sources, articles, books, grey literature. Current to 1983.

Compares the similarities of the Metis and Catalan nationalism to identify how these two movements can learn from one another in their fights for nationhood within a larger state.

Outlines current state of affairs, historical background and summary of the history of Métis lands.

Reviews the Indian Specific Claims Commission and history of the claims process.

Law Thesis (LL.M.)--University of Ottawa, 2013.

Thomas Major was one of the Metis involved in the early Metis organizations of the province.

Tom Fiddler discusses the early meetings of the Metis Association and his impressions of Malcolm Norris.

Comments on the importance of traditional knowledge and oral traditions history as lines of evidence in Aboriginal claims litigation and alternative forms of resolution.

Virtual exhibit about negotiation of and background to Treaty 8 (Athabasca). "At the time, it was not only the largest land settlement undertaken by the Canadian government with First Nations, but also the first to recognize that the 'aboriginal title' of Indians and Métis are co-existent."

Argues that treaty was concluded after provincial borders were created. Report includes instructions to Crown negotiators, historical context and a section on Métis claims.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New Mexico, 1987.

Traces the migration of many Métis to the United States following the Northwest Resistance and their economic marginalization on both sides of the boarder; examines questions of Indian title, treaty-making and the scrip program. Chapter from Métis Settlement in the North-West Territories. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 1.

Book review of: The Western Métis edited by Patrick C. Douad. Consists of articles originally published between 1978 and 2007 in . Scroll to page 434 to read review.

Essays originally published in Prairie Forum between 1978–2004.

Wilma Moore was a teacher in Saskatoon who was involved in the Saskatchewan Metis Society in the 1930s and 1940s.