Political Process

Looks at Aboriginal participation in mine development and how more inclusive social and environmental development models can support a more equitable and sustainable development. Uses the Galore Creek Project as a case study. Scroll down to read article.

Columnist comments on the political interference by the Board of Governors, consisting mostly of chiefs, in the affairs of the FNUC.

Discusses how the Indian Act is steadily losing its authority and is slowly being replaced with more complex agreements.

Short history of Indian and Treaty rights starting with the Royal Proclamation of 1763.

Explores Native American socio-political forces during the late 1960s and the efforts to establish an Indigenous based college.

Speculation on the economic and political ramifications of a rumoured move by all or part of the Federal Department of Indian Affairs.

Correspondence between the Diefenbaker office and John Brundle, who has spent time on the Snake Island Reserve, with enclosed booklet entitled "The Rape of Snake Island Indian Reserve by the Department of Indian Affairs, Ottawa, and the Township of North Gwillimbury, Ontario."

News release outlining the main points of chapter four of the 2000 Report of the Auditor General of Canada.

Overview of the themes contained in the book. Excerpt from the book: Indian Association of Alberta: A History of Political Action by Laurie Meijer Drees.

Annual report recommends that the Federal Government clarify the mandate and procedure of the Research Funding Division of the Department of Indian Affairs to make sure that First Nations are treated fairly when applying to the Department for funding. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Overview of 1991-1994 activities of the Indian Specific Claims Commission (ICC), an independent body of inquiry whose mandate includes review of rejected federal claims. The ICC focus includes, claims inquiries, research, mediation and publications, as well as review of the federal Specific Claims Policy and process. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Using the Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin as a case study the author offers criticism of current Tribal government operations and details a step-by-step plan to non-violently seize political power.

Supports a grassroots approach to self-government rather than federally imposed rules of governance.

Argues that a consistent, fair, and equitable policy of land restoration, in the United States, is the only way to resolve Indigenous land claims.

Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 1973.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 1993.

"National publication for the Indians of Canada." Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record. Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.

"National publication for the Indians of Canada." Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record. Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.

"National publication for the Indians of Canada". Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record. Articles reflect the attitudes and polices of the time.

"National publication for the Indians of Canada." Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record . Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.

"National publication for the Indians of Canada." Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record. Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.

Discusses John Collier's crusade to rebuild Indian tribal societies and rehabilitate and enlarge Indian lands.

Discussion on organized Native response formed to force a judicial decision on land claims and protect Aboriginal rights.

Biolsi responds to the article "Progressive-Era Bureaucrats and the Unity of Twentieth-Century Indian Policy"; examines the ways that the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) used tribal governments to manufacture consent to government policies in Indigenous communities.

Jack Beaver, president and chief executive officer of Churchill Falls Labrador Ltd., gives speech to the annual assembly of the National Indian Brotherhood citing the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians as a leader in the area.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 2009.

Book review of: Indian Wars of Mexico, Canada and the United States, 1812-1900 by Bruce Vandervort.

Commentary on the San Xavier Development Project, a component of the Central Arizona Project (CAP), a massive water diversion project in Arizona.

Investigates the lived experiences of First Nation scholars in mainstream society and the politcal realities they deal with.

Addresses the question of involving anthropologists in political and legal matters between the First Nations and the government of Canada, as in the Delgamuukw case.

Author draws on their experience working within the academy to illustrate institutional discrimination against Indigenous scholars, graduate students, and allies who choose to confront issues of genocide, land theft, and colonization in their work.

Author asserts that self-determination is a liberal principle better suited to founding Indigeneity's political significance.

Book review of: Indigeneity edited by Guillermo Delgado-P. and John Brown Childs.

Parliamentary reform and reconciliation in Canada.

Author considers different cases of Indigenous resistance; offers a critique of the process of settler-colonial nationhood citing Audra Simpson’s assertion in Mohawk Interruptus that “continued Indigenous defense undermines and corrupts the absolutism of settler-colonial nationhood”

Brief profiles of Wally Awasis, Dan and Mary Lou Smoke, Frank T'Seleie and Carol Kobliski.

Looks at the experience of using internet voting in the course of ratifying a new matrimonial real property law.

In this interview Dr. Johnson and Professor Rowse discusse Rowse’s recent book, the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, the structure of the Australian state and its evolution over the 20th century, and the ongoing tension between kin-based and state-based sovereignties.

Marine Affairs Thesis (MMA)--University of Washington, 2013.

Discusses idea of collage as theory and how it acts as a metaphor for alternative Indigenous governance.

Brief points on what courtworkers do and who can use the Aboriginal Courtworker Program.

Looks back at key documents during the last 500 years, since Columbus, and argues that in the future there is hope for greater emancipation of Indigenous Peoples.

Study of 15 Indigenous participants in the Sudbury and Manitoulin Island areas uses Indigenous research methods and grounded theory to compare Western and Indigenous epistemologies and structures of power. Author argues that a greater understanding of Western and Indigenous power structures can help to build better relations between Indigenous and Settler communities in Canada.

Overview of diverse topics and issues explored in the book to underscore debate and importance of emerging Indigenous feminist endeavours. Introduction from Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture edited by Cheryl Suzack, Shari M. Huhndort, Jeanne Perreault, and Jean Barman. Introduction located by scrolling to page 1.

Author argues that Indigenous environmental knowledge is currently only cited as evidence of climate change; asserts that Indigenous knowledges and cultures need to be recognized as holding legitimate, adaptive, and sustainable climate change strategies.

Dicusses several factors that have limited the contributions of traditional knowledge to the environmental impact assessment.