Resources

Uses case study to illustrate how power relationships are shifting in terms of who controls resource use and management.

Discusses Aboriginal rights and working in partnership with First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities to equitably share in the benefits of resource development. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 12.

Manager of the Centre discusses the issue of lack of both running and sanitary water in northern Manitoba communities. Duration: 34:29.

Argues Elders in Saskatchewan have been arguing for sustainability ever since the time of the Treaties.

Environmental Studies Thesis (M.S.)--Wilfred Laurier University, 1998.

Resource Management and Environmental Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2003.

Examines the National Reclamation Act and how many people in the Gila River and Casa Grande valleys, including government officials, thought that the first reclamation project would be built in Arizona.

Forestry Thesis (M.Sc.)--The University of British Columbia, 2013.

Renewable Resources Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Alberta, 2000.

Resource Management Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 2002.

Contextualizes the issues by focusing on published literature on energy and allied renewable resources partnerships with Indigenous communities; analyzes the social, perspective and issue, and problem and solution frames.

Discusses the right of Indigenous peoples to approve or reject proposed actions or projects that may affect their lands, territories, or resources.

Looks at the Tlingit socio-political structure in southeast Alaska and it's complex transformation encompassing over two centuries of European contact.

Looks at how the collaborative efforts between the British Columbia government, First Nations, environmental groups and the forest companies transformed an era of conflict into a ground-breaking approach to conservation leading to a shift in the way coastal rainforests are managed and the successful integration of Indigenous decision making and community wellbeing.

Argues that the Crown has a repsponsility to make good faith efforts to negotiate agreements specifiying the rights of the parties when it engages in actions which effect Aboriginal interests so that disputes do not end up in litigation.

Reports on the consequences of oil development to the Lubicon livelihood and society.

Intended for use for secondary school students with film: Full Circle: First Nations, Métis, Inuit Ways of Knowing.

Book reviews of 2 books: Aboriginal Health in Canada: Historical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Perspectives by James B. Waldram, D. Ann Herring, T. Kue Young and Comparing the Policy of Aboriginal Assimilation: Australia, Canada and New Zealand by Andrew Armitage.

Book reviews of: Beyond Intellectual Property: Toward Traditional Resource Rights for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities by Darrell A. Posey, Graham Dutfield and Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage: A Global Challenge by Marie Battiste, James (Sa'ke'j) Youngblood Henderson.

Discusses proposal for a hydroelectric project on the Churchill River.

Examines intellectual property rights issues associated with traditional knowledge in medicine from a gender perspective, and looks at the implications for the wellbeing of the Indigenous populations.

Signed agreement between Pacific island nation of Samoa and the University of California, will split equally revenues from potential prostratin-based drugs, extracted from the mamala tree bark. Samoan healers were the first to recognize the trees medicinal potential.

Discussion of how the government/judicial category of "half-breed" was developed to facilitate appropriation of land and resources.

Looks at the role space related issues play in land claims and sovereignty. Suggests topics for future research. Scroll down to page 262 to read article.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia (Vancouver), 2012.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia (Vancouver), 2012.

Discusses violence against Indigenous women resulting from global economic restructuring based on two cases: missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada, and the death of Private Piestewa, a Hopi woman.

Forestry Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of British Columbia, 2008.

Policy outlines Alberta's approach to how it will meet its consultation responsibilities and Alberta's expectations of resource companies and First Nations in achieving the goal of increasing certainty for all parties with respect to land management and resource development activities.

Discusses the legal and constitutional duty to consult First Nations and accommodate their interests when Crown land and natural resource management decisions may adversely impact Treaty rights protected under the Constitution Act, 1982.

Examines the potential and likelihood for resource development, impact of existing government policies and implications with respect to economic development on reserves.

Explores different ways that Indigenous relationships to land and place have been disrupted by settler-colonialism; offers suggestions for disrupting and unsettling neocolonial and neoliberal frameworks surrounding land and place.

Law Thesis (LLM)--University of Saskatchewan, 2013.

Gwen Beck is a long time resident of La Ronge who has taken a keen interest in local, social and political affairs.

Principal issue was obligation on the Crown and third parties to consult with an Aboriginal people who have claimed Aboriginal title about possible infringements before claim has been decided.

Discusses a community referendum for Indigenous people to voice their right to consent to development.

Helen and Joe Wheaton lived in Prince Albert where Joe worked for the Saskatchewan government. They were active in the CCF party and became friends of Malcolm Norris and Jim Brady.

Helga Reydon worked for many years for the Department of Natural Resources in Prince Albert. She knew Malcolm Norris, Jim Brady and Pete Tomkins.

At issue is whether Métis located in southern Labrador have rights which compel the Crown to engage in consultation regarding areas affected by Phase III of the Trans-Labrador Highway.

Discusses the issue of Aboriginal fishing & trading practices and how it relates to the present-day controversy on whether Native people should have commercial rights to fishing resources.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Manitoba, 2000.

Canadian Heritage and Development Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Trent University, 1998.

Op-ed piece republished from The Tyee, discusses what the BC Legislature passing Bill 41, the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, might mean for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples and communities in the province.

Highlights significant court decisions which established the principles of current law. Duration: 11:38.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Lethbridge, 2014.

Book review of, Home is the Hunter: The James Bay Cree and Their Land by Hans M. Carlson.