Legal Capacity

Chapter 28 amendments regard issues surrounding Band Councils. Scroll down through Chapter 27 to display Chapter 28.

Although Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) has made progress in areas regarding empowerment, education, economic development, specific land claims, and reconciliation, governance and self-government, the issues of leadership selection, Indian Government Support programs, and registration and membership are issues the government intends to work on incrementally in 2008-09.

Analyzes the rationale and various financing options for debt financing of infrastructure projects on First Nations. Revision of paper prepared for Westbank Indian Band-Taxation Workshop on Public Financing for First Nations Governments January, 1993.

American Indian Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Arizona, 2012.

A virtual summit to discuss the need for a mobilization effort by Indigenous communities for judicial reform.

Focuses on the areas of education and child protection services, questioning whether or not self-administration is a step towards self-government.

Describes issues with Bill C-7 regarding the reporting structure set up by the federal government.

Secret document giving Associate Deputy Minister's approval to draft a memorandum to Cabinet seeking both mandate and funding to consult First Nations peoples regarding the consolidation and redesign of support programs for core Indian government operations.

Contains bylaws of the Mississaguas of the Credit and is a certified copy of a report of a Committee of the Privy Council, which was approved by the Governor General in Council on the 24th of October, 1884.

Discusses the lack of tribal jurisdictional sovereignty required to protect Indigenous female populations in the United States.

Secret Memorandum to Cabinet (Draft 3-9-8) discusses whether and how to implement the Aboriginal Agenda priority of governance through the redesign of Indian Government Support programs which will then achieve more effective, responsible and accountable First Nation governments.

Suggests that First Nation bands should be allowed to implement self-government at their own pace.