FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contents include historical documents, treaties, maps, field notes, reports, interview transcripts, census records, submissions and the French and English versions of the Final Report. [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.]

FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contents include reports, legal documents, transcripts, field books, submissions and English and French versions of the Final Report. [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.]

Concludes that no outstanding treaty land entitlement is owed to the James Smith Cree Nation. Commissioners include: Renée Dupuis and Alan C. Holman. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Law Thesis (LL.M.)--University of Toronto, 1998.

Critiques the Canadian government's failure to comply with the tenets of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Examines the successes and struggles of First Nations communities in economic development and summarizes the key findings identified by participant First Nations that are making progress toward building and attaining sustainable economies in their communities.

Examines the conclusions reached by by judge, Allan McEachern in Reasons For Judgment.

Examines the sources, content and proof of land rights of Indigenous peoples in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand from the common law perspective. Allow time for the link to download the article.

Cree lawyer speaks at the Karonhianónhnha School about the political landscape of Canada. Duration: 48:25.

Book One: Yukon First Nations Settlement Areas

Book Three: Yukon Inuvialuit Settlement Region Lands.

Book Two: Yukon Transboundary Agreement Lands

Edited papers from three conferences held at McGill University, Faculty of Law in 1990, 1991, and 1992

FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contents include historical documents, annotated indexes, reports, correspondence/letters and the Final Report in both French and English. [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.]

Discusses how the Ikalahan people manage 15,000 hectares of ancestral land.

Response, by the Aboriginals, to the issues of statehood and governance in the Northern Territory of Australia. This statement was produced in Kalkaringi in August 1998.

Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 1979

Agreement between the Mohawks of Kanesatake and the Government of Canada assented to June 14th, 2001.

Discusses the innovative radio series on the rights of Indigenous people, and the Kannada language interactive program that converts global issues into local issues.

Describes how Thai government policies are creating friction among the Karen. To access this article scroll down to page 58.

Short account of Che Philip Wilson's life and his views on cultural revitalization.

Looks at the influence of Vermillion Kickapoos prophet Kenekuk and how he used acculturation as means to adapt the Kickapoo culture to resist outside threats to their land and sovereignty.

Discusses the decision to issue mining permits, recent Supreme Court cases and the battle for religious freedom even under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).

Discusses the implications of the decision by the United Nations' Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, under its Urgent Action Procedure, which directs the United States to cease its violation of Shoshone land rights.

Discusses the nature of aboriginal law and Anglo-Canadian common law and how the two legal orders may interact in the modern Canadian state.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998.

Looks at a suit between a mining company and a First Nations community and the two judicial decisions made.

FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Consists of community session transcripts, historical documents, maps, excerpts, correspondence/letters, submissions and Final Report in English and French. Commissioners include: Phil Fontaine, Sheila Purdy, and Alan 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.]

Examines a research agreement between the North Slope Borough of Alaska and Shell Exploration and Production Company (Shell Oil) and offers an evaluation based on: external factors, inputs, processes, outputs, outcomes, and impacts.

Looks at the circumstances which led to the Koontenai nation declaring war on the United States government in 1974, The tribe was federally recognized but had been given no land base nor received any monetary compensation.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--West Virginia University, 1972.

Article explores the unique structure of land tenure developed within the Penobscot Nation; this dual land system allowed for both private lots and land held in commons, it also allowed married Indigenous women to own property in the 1800s.

Discusses severe restrictions pressed for by environmentalists concerning use of the Lake after the Ontario First Nation established a viable tourist industry.

Band position was that it was entitled to additional land and monies under the conditions of Treaty No. 6 signed 1876.

Author reflects on the international legal standards regarding the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty of Black Hills between the United States government and the Sioux Nation.

Natural Resources Management Thesis (M.N.R.M.)--The University of Manitoba, 2010.

Conflict Analysis and Management Thesis (M.A.)--Royal Roads University, 2000.

Uses traditional stories to illustrate fundamental principles of Indigenous education and argues that it must take place in the context of a relationship with the land.

Maori Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Canterbury, 2006.

Discussion of current land and resource strategies used by the federal and provincial governments and how they interface with Aboriginal law and Aboriginal rights and title.

Environmental Design Thesis (MEDes)--University of Calgary, 2016.

Brief overview of the issues involved and the facts of the 1990 clash between Mohawks from Kanesatake and Kahnawake and the Sûreté du Québec and ultimately the Canadian Armed Forces. Revised version. Originally published September 1990.

Two presentations: "The Need for a Unique Métis Claims Process - Minister's Special Representative Report (2016) on Métis Section 35 Rights" and "Métis Scrip: A Claim Against the Crown". Followed by question and answer period. Duration: 1:54:44.

Anthropology and Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia, 1985.

History Thesis (M.Sc.)--Utah State University, 1998.

Law Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2004.

Comments on the effects of colonialism on Aboriginal land governance.

Discusses the Aboriginal relationship with the land in Australia.