Land Rights

Argues Elders in Saskatchewan have been arguing for sustainability ever since the time of the Treaties.

Book review of: First Peoples by Jeffrey Sissons. Review located by scrolling to page 188.

Financial analysis of the risks to investors and shareholders when companies fail to honour Indigenous rights.

Examines the reoccurring flooding in Kashechewan as a case study; finds that the repeated flooding and the corresponding damage to housing and community resources is a result of colonial practices, disregard for traditional knowledge, and forced relocations of First Nations people to flood zones.

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.

American Indian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arizona, 1994.

Looks at the collaboration between the University of Northern British Columbia and the Tl'azt'en Nation regarding the John Prince Research Forest on traditional lands.

Looks at disputes over winter grazing areas between logging industry and reindeer herders in Northern Lapland.

Argues that unilateral process of building the Dakota Access Pipeline is a violation of the modified 1868 treaty.

Reproduces the United States Army’s list of the Dakota and Mixed Blood prisoners held at Fort Snelling, in 1862-1863.

Copies of pages in the Register of Land Purchases from Indians and additional pages recording other agreements made by the Hudson's Bay Company in Nanaimo and Fort Rupert, which were also known as the Douglas treaties.

Natural Resource Management Thesis (M.N.R.M.)--University of Manitoba, 1993.

Contextualizes the issues by focusing on published literature on energy and allied renewable resources partnerships with Indigenous communities; analyzes the social, perspective and issue, and problem and solution frames.

Discusses the right of Indigenous peoples to approve or reject proposed actions or projects that may affect their lands, territories, or resources.

Examination of French intrusion and colonization in the context of exploitation and occupation of Amerindians.

Looks at how the collaborative efforts between the British Columbia government, First Nations, environmental groups and the forest companies transformed an era of conflict into a ground-breaking approach to conservation leading to a shift in the way coastal rainforests are managed and the successful integration of Indigenous decision making and community wellbeing.

Geography and Environmental Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--Carleton University, 2008.

Looks at the history of Treaty Land Entitlement, the negotiations, and the conclusion. Total duration of four series: 68:21.

Article examines the meanings and significance of the Snoqualmie Falls to the Snoqualmie people; considers historic, political, and spiritual/traditional contexts. Examines a current conflict surrounding the falls which involves the Puget Sound Power and Light Company.

Talks about rights as an entitlement not as public charity and the link between land and health.

Reports on the consequences of oil development to the Lubicon livelihood and society.

Describes the mechanisms employed by the United States Government to gradually subdue Native tribes and nations.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002.

Describes the circumstances under which the religious sect forced the Christian family from their traditional lands.

Looks closely at the word land and the multiple social and geopolitical meanings that go with it.

Presentation by the Director of the Centre for Sami Research, University of Umea, Sweden at the Global Solidarity Symposium, State University of New York, November 2016. Duration: 54:42.

Author gives brief history of European-Inuit relations and demonstrates, through use of maps, how the Inuit have been moved from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and placed within artificial boundaries which bear no relation to their actual territory.

Argues that Canada needs to adopt an understanding that legitimacy flows out of resolving issues with First Nations in a just manner.

Focuses on spiritual and cultural survival, Indigenous rights, the preservation of sacred lands, climate change, and youth involvement for the future.

Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Northern British Columbia, 2005.

Examines how the media perpetuates stereotypes and inaccurate generalizations about Indigenous peoples such as the misrepresentation of racist sports mascots and related imagery; and looks at the discourses of Savagism with regard to news coverage of anticolonial direct action and the reclamation of land by sovereign Indigenous peoples and nations.

Examines the 'strike' by Gurindji people and their self relocation of their community as an act of activism to regain their land.

Book review of: From Wooden Ploughs to Welfare by Helen Buckley.

Book review of: From Wooden Ploughs to Welfare by Helen Buckley.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--Queen's University, 1992.

Intended for use for secondary school students with film: Full Circle: First Nations, Métis, Inuit Ways of Knowing.

Examines three perspectives that were factors in the campaign to assimilate aboriginal people through schooling: the Protestant ideology, the civilization-savagism paradigm, and the quest for land by Whites.

Explains the First Nation Land Management Act and the benefits and drawbacks.

Historical background, submissions and recommendations from Indian Claims Commission (ICC) hearing to determine whether has an outstanding reserve land debt to the First Nation (formerly Fort Ellice) under the terms of Treaty 4. ICC recommended that calculation of the amount of land owed, be based on 1877 date of 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.]

Looks at the plight of the Cherokee Nation during this period ending with their removal to Oklahoma.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2003.

Discussion of how the government/judicial category of "half-breed" was developed to facilitate appropriation of land and resources.

Discusses perceptions, economic productivity, and contributions of pastoralism. To access this article, scroll down to page 14.

[Law?] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2008.

School of Community and Regional Planning Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 1994.

Explains how gathering at the Point to roast wild rice and therefore renewing and honouring relationships between Anishinaabeg, the location and the sacred food constitutes an act of governance.

Provides information on history of the founding people of Gitk'a'ata and lineages and territories of the Gitk'a'ata along the Douglas Channel out to Campania Island.

Book reviews of: Compact, Contract, Covenant: Aboriginal Treaty-Making in Canada by J.R. Miller. Home is the Hunter: The James Bay Cree and Their Land by Hans M.