Membership

Discusses issues of human rights abuse towards Aboriginal women and children, and describes how various policies and practices have had a negative impact on many lives.

Highlights comments made in response to four questions: meaning of citizenship in the past, present and future, roles and responsibilities of citizens and their governments, vision for the future, and tools required to make change.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Regina, 2017.

Both bills were meant to address gender inequity and discrimination present in the Indian Act whereby women and their children were excluded from status and any of the accompanying rights and benefits .

Author examines the multiple factors at play in defining the term indigeneity. Considers the right of people to self-identify, the legal implications and complications that result based on the definition, and the gap between the legal definition and the sociocultural practice thereof. Discuss both United States contexts and global ones.

Timeline from the General Enfranchisement Act to the Indian Act and pertinent court cases and decisions which resulted in legislation to amend the Act.

Foreword for AlterNative’s 2018 Volume 14 Issue 4 Special Issue on Adoption and Indigenous Citizenship Orders, authored by its two Guest Editors; highlights the topics, authors and social contexts to be covered in the issue.

Based on his research involving the Skagit River Tribe (approximately 540 band members) in what is now Washington state, the author offers anthropological analysis on the gender gap in political engagement surrounding Indigenous tribal council elections, and compares it to contemporary (1980s – 1990s) mainstream political engagement in the United States.

Interview with Vizenor reflects on the White Earth delegation, their constitution and influence on two of his novels.

Historical background, analyses and submission to Indian Claims Commission (ICC) regarding the unlawful surrender of their reserve. ICC recommended further research be conducted on their membership. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]