Political Process

Book reviews of 23 books: The Forces Which Shaped Them: A History of the Education of Minority Group Children in British Columbia by Mary Ashworth. Forty Years a Chief by George Barker. A History of Native Claims Processes in Canada, 1867-1979 by Richard C. Daniel. The Metaphysics of Modern Existence by Vine Deloria The Covenant Chain: Indian Ceremonial and Indian Trade Silver by N.

Book reviews of 6 books: As Long as the Sun Shines and Water Flows edited by Ian Getty and Antoine S. Lussier. Native Children and the Child Welfare System by Patrick Johnston. A Bibliography of Algonquian Syllabic Texts in Canada Repositories by John Murdoch. Heritage of the North American Indian People: Some Suggestions Emphasizing the Eastern Woodlands by Daniel H. Page and Victor M.P. da Rosa. Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 10 by W.C. Sturtevant and A.

Looks at the problem of free movement over international borders for Indigenous nations of North America.

Examines policies which were designed to reinforce the ideology of patriarchal descent, recreate the Aboriginal family in the image of European norms and ultimately undermine the position of Aboriginal women.

Journalism and Communication Thesis (M.J.)--Carleton University, 1997.

Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Tromsø, 2008. Sami.

Applied Cultural Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alaska Anchorage, 2005.

Presentation made by the Grand Chief of the Sto:lo Nation pointing out the lack of a non-derogation clause and other concerns. Reproduction is a copy of an official work that is published by the Government of Canada and it is reproduced in affiliation with, or with the endorsement of the Government of Canada.

Links to legislation concerning on-reserve mineral rights, their administration, control and use including precious metals; excempt are pre-existing leases established pursuant to the Indian Act.

Commission is designed to facilitate the current Treaty process in British Columbia.

Discusses how the treaty process has successfully evolved through a series of institutional changes which include the development of effective working relationships between Canada, British Columbia and the First Nations Summit.

Author advocates federal governments invest more resources in economic development and education instead of just "managing poverty".

FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Consists of reports, maps, correspondence/letters, legal documents, submissions, oral transcripts, 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.]

Examines the Miccosukees' struggle for self determination with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the Department of the Interior.

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

History of the struggle by the Inuit to achieve sovereignty over a portion of the Northwest Territories.

Discusses the Kazakhs and the Buryat-Mongols movement for rights beginning with the First Russian Revolution.

Discussion of implications for Canada, if Quebec were to leave Confederation and how Canada would still be required to fulfil its obligations to Aboriginal Peoples.

Conceptual article argues that Indigenous sovereignty remains valid throughout the Americas and that the settler colonial laws are therefore illegitimate and illegal; all systems that function on the assumption of settler colonial sovereignty must be re-centered around Indigenous laws and ethics.

Author uses the frameworks created in Vizenor’s two 2006 poetry collections to discuss Anishinaabe concepts of belonging and citizenship separate from colonial discourses and dichotomies.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2005.

Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 1989.

Document prepared by the Progressive Conservative Association outlining amendments to the Canada Elections Act. This includes a preamble and numbered (1-14) 'highlights' of the main changes. Number three relates to the right of Indigenous people to vote.

Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--Univerisity of Saskatchewan, 2010.

Discusses the origins of the movement, reviews its philosophy, and explains historical factors which contributed to the almost universal support it received.

Canada, USA and Australia describe United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as "profoundly imperfect;" contrary to Canadian Parliamentary Committee on Aboriginal Affairs assessment and support of the document.

Evaluates the operation of the 'Anunga Rules' in Australia as a key part in a comparison between Canadian and Australian Aboriginal-police relations, policies and practices.

Reports on 5.1 billion dollar program to improve health care, cancelled in 2006 by Conservative government.

Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia (Vancouver), 2014

Provides an explanation of the text in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Book review of: The Canadian Environment in Political Context by Andrea Olive.

Comments on terminology, logistics, and implementation in regards to Aboriginal self-government and identity.

Compares how two well-known Aboriginal works challenge limiting definitions of Aboriginal peoples and shows how the legal system manipulates these definitions to take away land or rights. Excerpt from Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies. Entire book on one pdf. To access paper, scroll to p. 49.

Explores the possibility of an Aboriginal Canadian Prime Minister after Barack Obama was elected President in the United States.

Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 2006.

Describes the Treaty Land Entitlement process and backroom politics in advance of the 2007 Saskatchewan Provincial Election.

FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Documents consist of documents, correspondence/letters, claim submissions, and the final report in regards to the inquiry, which examined the seizure of 4,500 square miles of land for the weapons range. Commissioners include: Harry S. LaForme, Daniel J. Bellegarde, and P.E. James Prentice. [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.]

Talk by Congress of Aboriginal Peoples National Chief Patrick Brazeau on Accountability in Canada's Aboriginal Affairs and how the Congress is in favour of this. (3½ minutes.)

Talk by Congress of Aboriginal Peoples National Chief Patrick Brazeau on Canada's paternalistic Indian Act. (About 5 minutes.)

Presentation outlines the AFN's position on Bill C-6, essentially saying that it is a flawed piece of legislation that must be revamped through a cooperative approach.

Public Policy and Public Administration, Geography Option Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2008.

Historical background, analysis and recommendations from Indian Claims Commission (ICC) hearings regarding claim that the First Nation was entitled to a reserve surveyed in the Cypress Hills. ICC concluded that no reserve had been created, but recommended that the Government of Canada acquire the site of the Cypress Hills Massacre and recognize its historical significance. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Discusses the history of the American Indian women who initiated legislative changes to the Indian Child Welfare Act, and looks at recommendations to address the problems associated with the lack of compliance to current legislation across Canada and the United States.

Discusses the short-term benefits and long-term drawbacks of casinos in Saskatchewan.

Author briefly outlines the history of political organizations and activism which lead up to the interview.

Brief article examines the evolving statutory and common law basis for Aboriginal conduct of, and participation in, land use planning on First Nations reserves, treaty settlement lands and crown lands.

Discusses concerns by Native American communities of the impacts of science, research and information on nation building and the protection of their rights and culture.

Outlines how the 1982 Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms has impacted Aboriginal people.

Book review of: The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity by Gregory D. Smithers.