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Fear and Contempt: A European Concept of Property

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sidner Larson
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 4, Cultural Property in American Indian Literatures: Representation and Interpretation, Autumn, 1997, pp. 567-577
Description
Author highlights the ways that the United States’ Legal System has been used by the colonial state government to remove the land and rights of Indigenous peoples.
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Fiduciary Relationship as Contemporary Colonialism

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christina Yui Iwase
Arbutus Review, vol. 3, no. 2, Special Focus on Indigenous Governance, 2012, pp. 98-115
Description
Looks at the Supreme Court of Canada's tendency to characterize Aboriginal rights as arising from the Crown's fiduciary responsibilities, rather than being inherent.
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Fifteen Truth Commissions: 1974 to 1994: A Comparative Study

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 4, November 1994, pp. 597-655
Description
Discusses issues highlighted by commissions worldwide, as well as the different models employed. Examples discussed are countries that had undergone radical political changes and were in the process of transitioning from one regime to another.
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The Financial Case for Honoring Indigenous Peoples’ Rights

Articles » General
Author/Creator
First Peoples Worldwide
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 4, The Future We Want: Indigenous Women of the World Unite, December 2013, p. [?]
Description
Discussion on why investors, shareholders and corporations have a responsibility to respect the rights of Indigenous peoples and proactively work with them.
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Finland and the Process of Ratifying ILO Convention No. 169

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Tanja Joona
Indigenous Affairs, no. 3, 2003, pp. 40-46
Description
Examines the International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention No. 169 which was dedicated to Indigenous peoples and how Finland is proceeding to comply with the rights recognized. To access this article scroll down to page 40.
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A First Nation Citizenship Code

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Native Women's Association of Canada
Description
Provides a mechanism for determining citizenship to preserve cultural and political integrity and outlines three fundamental objectives of the Citizenship Code.
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First Nation Perspectives on Political Identity

Alternate Title
First Nation Citizenship Research & Policy Series: Building Towards Change
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Taiaiake Alfred
Description
Focuses on First Nations perspectives on meaning of being Indigenous, belonging to a community, and relationship of these memberships with the institutions of the Canadian state.
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First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada and Assembly of First Nations (Complainants) and Canadian Human Rights Commission (Commission) and Attorney General of Canada (Representing the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Canada) (Respondent) and Chiefs of Ontario and Amnesty International (Interested Parties): Ruling

Alternate Title
2013 CHRT 16
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Sophie Marchildon
Réjean Bélanger
Edward P. Lustig
Description
Complaint alleged that inequitable funding for child welfare services on reserves amounted to discrimination on the basis of race and national ethnic origin. Ruling gave government until end of August to produce documents it had been withholding.
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First Nations Health Centres Will Benefit Sask.

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
StarPhoenix, February 22, 2008, p. A11
Description
Explores proposals for health centres by Muskeg Lake and Kawacatoose First Nations, both the reasons why and the misconceptions about.
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First Nations Innovative

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
Leader Post, February 25, 2008, p. A3
Description
Explores proposals for health centres by Muskeg Lake and Kawacatoose First Nations, both the reasons why, and the misconceptions surrounding them.
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First Nations Justice Initiative in Canada

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jaclyn Ellis
Totem, vol. 17, no. 1, 2009, pp. 37-42
Description
Looks at the revival of traditional justice systems and the use of standardized initiatives like the Maori family conferencing model and the sentencing circle.
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First Nations, Métis and Inuit Health Care: The Crown's Fiduciary Obligations

Alternate Title
Discussion Paper Series in Aboriginal Health. Legal Issues ; no. 2
NAHO Discussion Paper Series ; no.2
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Yvonne Boyer
Description
Uses historical analysis to argue that federal government has a clear obligation to provide health care to Aboriginals but has failed to provide adequate services.
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First Nations Perspectives of the Split in Jurisdiction

Alternate Title
Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Blaine Favel
pp. 136-140
Description
Article from 1993 Conference proceedings, challenges the beliefs held by the mainstream justice system. Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.
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Folk Law and Contemporary Coast Salish Tribal Code

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bruce G. Miller
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 19, no. 3, 1995, pp. 141-164
Description
Focuses on how Aboriginal people themselves approach the incorporation of folk law.
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For Abiayala to Live, the Americas Must Die: Toward a Transhemispheric Indigeneity

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Emil Keme
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 5, no. 1, Spring, 2018, pp. 42-68
Description
Beginning with the Guna understanding of “Abiayala” and the politics implicit in using the word to describe what is currently called South America, the author argues for a global Indigenous movement based in common experiences, worldview, and political standing.
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Former National Chief Leads Court Challenge [Bill C-61]

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Paul Barnsley
Windspeaker, vol. 20, no. 4, August 2002, p. 1
Description

Looks at Federation of Saskatchewan Nations chairman of the executive council of the senate, David Ahenakew, who talked about legal action against the Crown, claiming Prime Minister Jean Chretien and Indian Affairs Minister Robert Nault breached their fiduciary duty by increasing their control and power over the affairs and government of First Nations.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.1.

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The Four Aboriginal Freedoms

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Glenn Hennessy
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 7, no. 2, June 1983, pp. 54-55
Description
Describes the four freedoms that were first set out in 1972 by Australian Prime Minister William McMahon.
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The Fourth World: An Expression of International Solidarity

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Michael (Mickey) Posluns
Indigenous Policy Journal of the Indigenous Studies Network, vol. 15, no. 2, Special International Indigenous Issue, Summer, 2004, p. [?]
Description
Discusses an interview session with George Manuel on his vision of international solidarity towards human rights promotion where social, cultural, economic, civil and political justice prevail and people live with respect and dignity. Access through table of contents.
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The "Fourth World" of Indigenous Peoples: A Review of the Concept and the Literature

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Alan B. Anderson
Native Studies Review, vol. 9, no. 1, 1993-1994, pp. 126-132
Description
Essay discusses the content of six recently published books: Indigenous Peoples: A Global Quest for Justice. Indigenous Peoples and the Nation-State: Fourth World Politics in Canada, Australia, and Norway edited by Noel Dyck. The GAIA Atlas of First Peoples: A Future for the Indigenous World by Julian Burger..[ et al.] "Nations Within": Aboriginal-State Relations in Canada, the United States, and New Zealand by Augie Fleras and Jean Leonard Elliott. Indigenous Peoples of the World: An Introduction to Their Past, Present and Future by Brian Goehring. State
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Gender-Based Analysis and Differing Worldviews

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cynthia D. Stirbys
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 26, no. 3-4, Indigenous Women in Canada: the Voices of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Women, Winter/Spring, 2008, pp. 138-145
Description
Discusses the Canadian government's perspective on equality and its failure to achieve it, both for women in general and First Nations women in particular.
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Genocide against Indigenous Peoples: International Law and the Experiences of the Canadian and Guatemalan Truth Commissions

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Emmanuel Guematcha
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, June 18, 2019
Description
Article compares the processes and findings of the Truth Commissions in Canada and Guatemala; discusses how the idea and crime of genocide appears in national narratives, and how the findings of these commissions are part of a larger evolution of the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention.
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Genocide Studies: An Australian Perspective

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Colin Tatz
Genocide Studies and Prevention, vol. 6, no. 3, Winter, 2011, pp. 231-244
Description
Discusses issues surrounding the politics of race and genocidal practices relating to crimes against humanity.
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Governing Ourselves: The Journey Begins

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Bonnie Leask
Murray Long
Dorothy Myo
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 34, no. 1, Summer, 2003, pp. 24-25
Description
Discusses an Agreement-in-Principle (AIP) which allows a Treaty relationship to be established between the Government of Canada and First Nations people.
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Health in the Hinterland

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 168, no. 6, March 18, 2003, p. 661, 663
Description
Discussion of the cost difference between Northern communities and the rest of Canada plus the First Minister's accord on health care renewal in February, 2003.
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Historian's View of S. 705: The Sioux Nation Black Hills Bill

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David B. Miller
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 1988, pp. 55-59
Description
Investigates the history behind the Black Hills land dispute between the residents of South Dakota, the United States government and the Sioux Nation.
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The Historical Context of the Drive for Self-Government

Alternate Title
Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
J. R. Miller
Description
Article from 1993 Conference proceedings, discussing a range of historical and contemporary events. Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.
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