Political Process

Discusses the possible impact of new Federal legislation affecting financial accountability practises.

Discusses the historic approach of governments and the courts in addressing Aboriginal rights relating to land, and some of the key historical circumstances that have prevented resolution of the issues in the past. The article also looks at the current federal and provincial land claims policies in Ontario.

Chronicles the history of oppression and marginalization against the Adivasis of India. To access this article scroll down to page 54.

Argues for a bi-national panel to make determinations of historical fact in light of comments from two judges regarding the appropriateness of judicial rulings regarding Aboriginal title.

Article examines federally funded research frameworks and advocates for Indigenous research and sovereignty; suggests ways that federal funding bodies might contribute to the realization of Indigenous self-determination in research.

Explores the efforts to transform the disposition and direction of international law to become a supportive force of change in the relations between Indigenous peoples and the State.

Pre-election report prior to the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) election and commentary on the differing leadership styles of the contenders.

Comments on how cutbacks forced National Chief Matthew Coon Come to reexamine the role of the Assembly of First Nations.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.3.

Issues of land rights and resources litigated in these two important law cases.

Analysis the relationship between economic restructuring and Aboriginal land rights in light of the 1994 conflict in Chiapas, Mexico and suggests that fundamental differences can provide directions for finding solutions.

Discusses three themes that emerged from “Settler Colonial Biopolitics and Indigenous Lifeways” issue of American Indian Culture and Research Journal: (1) structural genocide in settler-colonial states' attempts at deracination; (2) Indigenous peoples' agency with regard to anti-normalization; and (3) decolonial resistance outside of imposed settler-colonial binaries.

Social and Political Thought Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 1995.

Commentary on the history and developments in Saskatchewan First Nation affairs and of a media that seems to favour sensationalism over positive political legacies.

Humanities Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, Dominguez Hills, 2003.

Book review of: Alaska Native Political Leadership and Higher Education by Michael Jennings.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Arizona, 2003.

Outlines other Canadian jurisdictions' best practices for integrating economic development and First Nations interests.

Historical background and submissions to Indian Claims Commission (ICC) concerning the federal Crown's granting of three rights of way to Calgary Power on Alexis IR133 during 1950s and 1960s. ICC concluded no effort was made to provide annual payments to the Band and recommended the claim be accepted for negotiation under Canada's Specific Claims Policy. Commissioners include: Roger J. Augustine, Daniel J. Bellegarde, Sheila G. Purdy. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Debates whether a different electoral system would increase voter turnout in Ontario.

Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2001.

Focuses on the mobilization of Native American Tribes in a concerted effort to attain economic goals, with an empahasis on tactics used in relation to gaming on-reserve.

Allan Quandt has lived in northern Saskatchewan for over 30 years. He was a friend of Malcolm Norris and Jim Brady.

Indigenous Governance Project (M.A.) -- University of Victoria, 2006.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 1997.

Article uses archival and ethnographic evidence to examine land tenure within a southwestern Oklahoma county; examines how the system created to protect the rights of Indigenous landowners actually functions to redirect access to the land, to the economic benefit of non-Indigenous ranchers and farmers.

Report by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1974, declassified in 1992. Presents chronology of violence attributed to the American Indian Movement.

Examines political and legal issues of the American Indian Movement in the 1960's and 1970's.

Explains why political power has eluded Native Americans and what chance they have in becoming a participating and policymaking force in mainstream American society.

Ortiz’s address to the AISA calls on Indigenous people to recognize the damage done to them by colonization and to find in that recognition the strength and will to participate in contemporary resistance to neocolonial projects rooted in consumer capitalist and extractive resource regimes.

This presentation text examines different sites and incidents of neocolonial violence and Aboriginal activism as defiance in response; asserts the basis of Native Studies is “indigenousness and sovereignty” and examines the implications of these concepts for activism and resistance movements.

Very brief article discusses litigation surrounding a variety of discriminatory election practices. Access though table of contents.

Book review of: American Indians and the Fight for Equal Voting Rights by Laughlin McDonald.

Discusses the way in which some members of the Society of American Indians (SAI) advocated for a model of “Americanization” of Indigenous people that allows for the “performance of both American and Native allegiances,” and enfranchised Indigenous peoples as full citizens.

Discusses Winnemucca’s 1883 book, Life among the Piutes, and her advocacy work on behalf of the Piutes; focuses on the rhetorical strategies and political positioning Winnemucca uses to represent her people and their interests to settler publics and government officials.

Law Thesis (LL.M.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1993.

Native Studies Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Manitoba, 1999.

Discusses how the Apurinã community in Brazil create and maintain relationships with different non-human actors forms an intergenerational way of managing and relating to the land; critically examines how these relationships are protected by international law.

Examines business interests, particularly trade with the French.

Author draws on Vine Deloria Jr.’s work on the role that a difference in worldviews plays in communication to examine the distance between what Indigenous peoples mean by self-determination and what policy makers mean by it.

American Indian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2019.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Manitoba, 1987.

Abstract: The territorial aspirations and achievements of Aboriginal minorities in the common-law jurisdictions of North America, Australia and New Zealand can be divided according to three varieties of political-legal situations; those in areas of initiation, enhancement and omission. In the first of these, to which attention is here confined, there has been no legally defined and protected land-base, and Aboriginal land claims are or have been the subject of recent litigation, negotiation and settlement.

Clarifies the purposes of reservations and raises issues in relation to water rights and usage by reservations on the Gila River system.

Art Davis, a professor of sociology, hired Jim Brady as a research technician/interviewer for work in the north. Davis discusses Brady's work, his personality, his politics and compares Brady to Malcolm Norris.

Discusses the ongoing negotiations on the draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.

Book review of: 'As Their Natural Resources Fail' by Frank Tough.

Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--Dalhousie University, 2001.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Carleton University, 1999.

Looks at the level of "civilization" the Cherokee nation had acheived compared to that of other native American societies including the Lakota.