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B.C. Bishops Call for Referendum Protest

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Solange De Santis
Anglican Journal, vol. 128, no. 5, May 2002, p. 1, 3
Referendum concerning Treaty rights and land claims considered a political manoeuvre.
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Bande de Betsiamites: Enquêtes Relatives à la Route 138 et au Pont de la Rivière Betsiamites

Alternate Title
Betsiamites Band Highways 138 and Riviere Betsaimites Bridge Inquiries - Final Report (French Version)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Final report regarding the two specific claims arguing that reserve lands taken for highway construction were never surrendered to Canada and/or transferred to the Province of Quebec. Commissioners include : Sheila G. Purdy and Alan C. 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.]
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Bearing the Burden: The Effects of Mining on First Nations in British Columbia

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
The International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard University
Discusses the environmental damage that mining, including exploration, has caused the Takla Lake First Nation. The paper includes an overview of international and domestic Aboriginal rights law; analyzes the problems mining raises for First Nations; and concludes that structural, procedural, and substantive legal reforms are needed.
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Being Indigenous in Today's World

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Johnson Malih Ole Kaunga
Indigenous Affairs, no. 3-4, IWGIA 40 Years On, 2008, pp. 8-9
Keynote address on struggles for self determination from an Indigenous perspective.
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Being Neighbourly: Urban Reserves, Treaty Settlement Lands, and the Discursive Construction of Municipal–First Nation Relations

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Janice Barry
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 5, Special Issue: The Impact of Reserve and Reservation Systems on Indigenous Well-Being, 11 22, 2019
Author offers a critical perspective on the perspectives in discussion papers being released by municipal government agencies in response to reserves being created within and adjacent to urban centers; argues that many of the perspective within these documents reinforce settler colonialism and ignore Indigenous sovereignty.
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Betsiamites Band Council, Route 138 and the Betsiamites Reserve, Public Edition, July 2008

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission

FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Consists of bilingual annotated index, historical documents, maps, correspondence/letters, Band Council documents and final reports relating to the Band's claims alleging that reserve lands taken for highway use were never surrendered to Canada and/or transferred to the Province of Quebec. Commissioners include: Sheila G. Purdy and Alan C. 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.]

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Betsiamites Band: Highway 138 and Riviére Betsiamites Bridge Inquiries

E-Books
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Historical background, analysis, and recommendation from Indian Claims Commission (ICC). Issue whether land used for projects was lawfully surrendered or expropriated. No determination by ICC as parties agreed to negotiate a settlement. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
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Betsiamites Band: Highway 138 and Rivière Betsiamites Bridge Inquiries - Final Report

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Final report regarding the two specific claims arguing that reserve lands taken for highway construction were never surrendered to Canada and/or transferred to the Province of Quebec. Commissioners include : Sheila G. Purdy and Alan C. 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.]
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Beyond Racism: Some Opinions about Racialism and American Archaeology

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Roger Echo-Hawk
Larry J. Zimmerman
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 3/4, Decolonizing Archaeology , Summer - Autumn, 2006, pp. 461-485
Authors reproduce an email conversation about race, racialism, and racism in Archaeological practice in the United States that occurred between Indigenous Archaeologists; and further discuss the issues raised in the conversation.
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Big Brother's Hunger

Alternate Title
All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward, Lecture 2
[2018 CBC Massey Lectures]
[Ideas with Paul Kennedy]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Tanya Talaga
Tanya Talaga, prize-winning journalist and author of Seven Fallen Feathers delivers the the second of the 2018 Massey Lectures in Halifax. Talaga's second lecture focuses on the effects for Indigenous peoples of displacement from their traditional territories and of ongoing contemporary extractive resource economies. Duration: 53:59
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Bigstone Cree First Nation, TLE Claim Inquiry, Public Edition, July 2008

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission

FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains interviews, presentations, statements, reports, correspondence/letters and documents regarding the Treaty Land Entitlement process for the Alberta First Nation. Commissioners include: Daniel J. Bellegarde, P.E. James Prentice, and Carole T. Corcoran.

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Bigstone Cree First Nation, TLE Claim Inquiry, Public Edition, July 2008

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission

FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains interviews, presentations, statements, reports, correspondence/letters and documents regarding the Treaty Land Entitlement process for the Alberta First Nation. Commissioners include: Daniel J. Bellegarde, P.E. James Prentice, and Carole T. Corcoran.

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Bigstone Cree First Nation, TLE Claim Inquiry, Public Edition, July 2008

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission

FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains interviews, presentations, statements, reports, correspondence/letters and documents regarding the Treaty Land Entitlement process for the Alberta First Nation. Commissioners include: Daniel J. Bellegarde, P.E. James Prentice, and Carole T. Corcoran.

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Bigstone Cree First Nation, TLE Claim Inquiry, Public Edition, July 2008

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission

FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains interviews, presentations, statements, reports, correspondence/letters and documents regarding the Treaty Land Entitlement process for the Alberta First Nation. Commissioners include: Daniel J. Bellegarde, P.E. James Prentice, and Carole T. Corcoran.

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Bigstone Cree First Nation, TLE Claim Inquiry, Public Edition, July 2008

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission

FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains interviews, presentations, statements, reports, correspondence/letters and documents regarding the Treaty Land Entitlement process for the Alberta First Nation. Commissioners include: Daniel J. Bellegarde, P.E. James Prentice, and Carole T. Corcoran.

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Bigstone Cree First Nation, TLE Claim Inquiry, Public Edition, July 2008

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission

FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains interviews, presentations, statements, reports, correspondence/letters and documents regarding the Treaty Land Entitlement process for the Alberta First Nation. Commissioners include: Daniel J. Bellegarde, P.E. James Prentice, and Carole T. Corcoran.

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Bigstone Cree First Nation, TLE Claim Inquiry, Public Edition, July 2008

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission

FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains interviews, presentations, statements, reports, correspondence/letters and documents regarding the Treaty Land Entitlement process for the Alberta First Nation. Commissioners include: Daniel J. Bellegarde, P.E. James Prentice, and Carole T. Corcoran.

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Bigstone Cree Nation Inquiry: Treaty Land Entitlement Claim

E-Books
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Final report examines historical background, analyses, and recommendation from Indian Claims Commission (ICC) hearings on the claim by the First Nation that the amount of acreage allotted was less than they were entitled to under the provisions of Treaty 8. Due to new Treaty Land Entitlement policy, the two parties agreed to negotiate a settlement and no determination was made by the ICC. Commissioners include : Daniel J. Bellegarde, P.E. James Prentice, and Carole T. Corcoran.
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Bill C-37: Claim Settlements (Alberta and Saskatchewan) Implementation Act

Alternate Title
[Legislative Summary (Research Branch, Libary of Parliament)] ; LS-415E
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mary C. Hurley
Government of Canada
Gives the legislative history of Bill C-37; legislation that facilitates land claim settlements, particularily those resolving treaty land entitlement and specific claims.
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Bill C24: First Nations Certainty of Land Title Act

Alternate Title
Legislative Summary (Parliamentary Information and Research Service) ; 40-3-C24-E
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
James Gauthier
Tonina Simeone
Brief description of background and contents of the proposed Bill, which would amend the First Nations Commercial and Industrial Development Act to enable participating communities to request that the government make regulations involving establishment and operation of a system replicating the provincial land title or registry system. Identical to Bill C-63 which died on the Order Paper when Parliament was prorogued.
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Bird Use of Northern Alaska Oilfield Rehabilitation Sites.

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joe Liebezeit
Martin Robards
Bill Streever
Samantha Strindberg
Steve Zack
Arctic, vol. 71, no. 4, December 19, 2018, pp. 422-430
Study compares bird use of rehabilitated oil extraction sites with that of nearby reference sites; finding demonstrate that sites studied 3 to 10 years post-site rehabilitation are not comparable to nearby reference site in regards to shorebird and passerine habitat (nesting/breeding), but they do seem to support waterfowl. Additional shorebirds and passerines are using these sites for foraging and resting.
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The Black Day: Yarsagunbu, the State, and the Struggle for Justice

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tashi Tewa Dolpo
IK: Other Ways of Knowing, vol. 2, 2016, pp. 33-44
Looks at the events leading up to a confrontation between government officials and local villagers harvesting communal land, which resulted in death and injury, and the Nepali government's failure to respond to demands for justice.
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