Land Rights

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Subsistence and Resistance on the British Columbia Coast: Kingcome Village’s Estuarine Gardens as Contested Space

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Douglas Deur
Nancy J. Turner
Kim Recalma-Clutesi (OQWILOWGWA)
Adam Dick (KWAXSISTALLA)
Daisy Sewid-Smith (MAYANILTH)
BC Studies, no. 179, Ethnobotany in BC, Autumn, 2013, pp. 13-37
Uses specific example to illustrate the impact of displacement from important resource harvest sites and efforts to eliminate traditional gardening activities.
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Supreme Court Reversal of Carcieri: Implications for Reaffirmed Michigan Indian Tribes

Alternate Title
[Indigenous Law & Policy Center Occasional Paper Series]
[Indigenous Law & Policy Center Working Paper ; 2009-03]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Novaline D. Wilson
Looks at the two issues on appeal that the Supreme Court will decide. Looks at Rhode Island's argument that the Secretary of the Interior lacks legality to take land into trust for Narragansett Tribe under the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA).
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Survey of Canadian Law: Indian and Native Law

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Richard H. Bartlett
Ottawa Law Review, vol. 15, 1983, pp. 431-502
Reviews legal events from the January 1980 - Fall 1982 period, including the failure of Aboriginal efforts to prevent the passage of the Canada Act in English Courts.
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Sustainable Livelihoods for Pygmy Peoples

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Dorothy Jackson
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1, Indigenous Poverty: An Issue of Rights and Needs, 2003, pp. 8-17
Reports on how forestry development is negatively impacting Pygmy lifestyles to varying degrees. To access this article scroll down to page 8.
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The Systematic Dispossession of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Grand Council of the Crees]
A submission to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Reports Canadian government policy is in breach of basic fundamental rights and is keeping Aboriginal people living in poverty.
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The Taos Blue Lake Ceremony

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John J. Bodine
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 2, Spring, 1988, pp. 91-105
Analysis of the importance of the Blue Lake ceremony to the Taos Pueblo culture.
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Tar Creek: The Quapaw Tribe, the EPA, and Tribal Self-Determination, 1980–2010

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Raymond Anthony Nolan
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 33, no. 1, Spring, 2018, pp. 70-86
Author examines the way that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) managed the clean-up of mining pollution on Quapaw land at the Tar Creek mine site; outlines frameworks of historic case law and contemporary sovereignty agreements, critically analyses the EPA’s process and its failure to recognize Quapaw sovereignty and self-determination within these contexts.
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Telling Our Twisted Histories

Web Sites » Organizations
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
Kaniehti:io Horn
Terre Innue

Website contains links to a series of 12 podcasts which explore the impact of words such as reconciliation, indian time, school, reserve, and savage. Host Kaniehti:io Horn engages in conversations with more than 70 people from 15 First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities.

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Termination: A Legacy of the Indian New Deal

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kenneth R. Philip
The Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 2, April 1983, pp. [165]-180
Discusses the reasons for the failure of the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA), which brought into effect policies designed to devolve federal responsibility for tribes and transfer it to the state governments. This in turn was used as a method to force integration and assimilation into the dominant culture.
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Territoriality and Sovereign Advantage: Public Lands, Treaty Rights, and the Contentious Politics of the American West

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patrick Eudaily
Steve Smith
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 30, no. 2, Fall, 2019
Authors deconstruct the language and concepts of sovereignty and territory, and re-examine the relationship between the two. They advocate shifting away from contemporary models of “sovereignty over a territory” and towards an approach in which the practice of sovereignty is rooted in a particular territory, its peoples and communities.
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There's Nothing 'Free' About Treaty Rights

Alternate Title
Introspection
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Winona Wheeler
Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 6, June 2009, p. 5
Viewpoint of the author regarding Treaty Rights. Article located by scrolling to page 5.
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This Land Knows Me: Indigenous Land Rights

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Kristyna Bishop
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 1, Mining Indigenous Lands, Spring, 2001
Describes First Peoples Worldwide (FPW) and their mandate to ensure indigenous peoples have their basic human rights respected by national governments.
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Threatening to Act Got Quick Results from PM

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
StarPhoenix, June 15, 2007, p. A13
Describes how imminent national protests influenced the Federal Government to announce the establishment of a independent tribunal to settle land claims.
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Three Arguments for First Nation Public Nuisance Standing

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrew Gage
Indigenous Law Journal, vol. 7, no. 1, 2008, pp. 39-66
Analyzes reasons in favour of the First Nations public nuisance standing rule and concludes there's compelling reasons to re-examine the rule more generally.
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Time Natives Recapture the Agricultural Dream

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
StarPhoenix, April 22, 2005, p. A15
History of First Nation agriculture in Saskatchewan and suggestions to improve the current situation that sees very few First Nations peoples involved in farm operations.
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A Time of Change is Coming

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
Leader Post, May 28, 2007, p. B1
Discussion of land solutions and how these must be developed by and for the community.
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Titling Ancestral Domains: The Philippine Experience

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Lourdes Amos
Indigenous Affairs , no. 4, Land Rights: A Key Issue, 2004, pp. 20-25
Reports the Philippine government lacks the political will to enforce the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act. To access this article, scroll to page 20.
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[To Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Premier of the Dominion of Canada: From the Chiefs of the Shuswap, Okanagan and Couteau Tribes of British Columbia, Presented at Kamloops, B.C. August 25, 1910]

Alternate Title
The Memorial to Sir Wilfrid Laurier: Commemorating the 100th Anniversary, 1910-2010
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Chiefs of the Shuswap, Okanagan and Couteau or Thompson Tribes

Text of letter protesting the misappropriation of land, failure to create treaties, and the policies of the B.C. government. Site also includes information on laws and customs, historical and political context, and timeline from 1763 to 2009.

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Too Small a Place: The Removal of the Willamette Valley Indians, 1850-1856

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ronald Spores
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 2, Spring, 1993, pp. 171-191
Author describes the forced relocation of the Calapooya, the Clackamas, the Molalla, and the Klickitat peoples from the Willamette Valley to reservations so that the land could be given to settlers for farming.
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Tory Plan Means Trouble for Aboriginals

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
Leader Post, January 16, 2006, p. B1
Addresses contradictory comments made by Conservative candidates during the 2006 federal election.
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A Totem-Pole from the Nass River, British Columbia

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
R. Kerr
Man, vol. 31, February 1931, pp. 20-21
Totem pole removed and sold, with the permission of the Government of Canada, to the ethnographical collection of the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh.
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