Title / Ownership
Collaboration Between Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian Forestry Industry: A Dynamic Relationship: A State of Knowledge Report
Alternate Title
State of Knowledge Report (Sustainable Forest Management Network)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Stephen Wyatt
Jean-François Fortier
Garth Greskiw
Martin Hébert
Solange Nadeau
David Natcher
Peggy Smith
Ron Trosper
Description
Discusses how The Sustainable Forest Management Network (SFMN) has supported research that promotes more effective linkages between Aboriginal people, forestry companies and governments.
Consultation Guidelines
Alternate Title
Aboriginal Interest in the Land
Alberta’s First Nations Consultation Guidelines on Land Management and Resource Development
Consultation in Alberta
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
BearPaw Media Productions
Description
Brief outline of the Canadian and Alberta government's duty to consult with First Nations when economic development will impact their lands.
Creating Indian Entrepreneurs: Menominees, Neopit Mills, and Timber Exploitation, 1890-1915
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brian C. Hosmer
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 15, no. 1, 1991, pp. 1-28
Description
Chronicles the efforts of the Menominee Tribe to resist the efforts of the so-called Pine Ring in order to obtain control of their large stand of virgin timber.
The Crown's Fiduciary Obligation toward Aboriginal Peoples
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Maria Morellato
Description
Looks decisions by the Supreme Court of Canada in six key cases R. v. Gladstone, R. v. Van Der Peet, Marshall v. Her Majesty the Queen, R. v. Adams, Delgamuukw v. Her Majesty the Queen, and Halfway River.
Curly Hair and Big Feet: Physical Anthropology and the Implementation of Land Allotment on the White Earth Chippewa Reservation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David L. Beaulieu
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 4, Autumn, 1984, pp. 281-314
Description
Looks at the court transcripts of the White Earth Chippewa Reservation land allotment fraud cases. Anthropological Professors Albert Jenks and Ales Hrdlicka provided testimony regarding "mixed blooded" and "full Indians" status based on physical characteristics.
Delgamuukw and Others v The Queen
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peter R. Grant
Aboriginal Law Bulletin, vol. 2, no. 52, October 1991, p. 26
Description
Reports on the longest Aboriginal land claim trial in Canadian history. The court found that the difficulty faced by First Nations was not due to the unlawful dispossession of lands.
Don McLean Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Don McLean
Christine Welsh
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview with non-Indian employed at the Gabriel Dumont Institute in Regina. At the time of the interview he was writing a book on the history of the Metis nation.
The End is Not Nigh: Reason Over Alarmism in Analysing the Tsilhqpot'in Decision
Alternate Title
Aboriginal Canada and the Natural Resource Economy Series ; 5
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kenneth Coates
Dwight Newman
Description
Examines background and implications of the landmark Supreme Court decision which, for the first time, granted Aboriginal title outside a reserve.
Enquête sur la Revendication du Conseil Tripartite des Chippewas: Première Nation de Beausoleil, Première Nation de Chippewas de Georgina Island, Première Nation des Chippewas de Mnjikaning (Rama): Concernant la Cession de la Réserve de Coldwater-Narrows
Alternate Title
Chippewa Tri-Council Inquiry: Beausoleil First Nation, Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation, Chippewas of Mnjikaning (Rams) First Nation: Coldwater-Narrows Reservation Surrender Claim (French version)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
Historical background of claim presented to the Indian Claims Commission (ICC) concerning the validity of the surrender of the reserve to the Crown. No inquiry was conducted as the claim was accepted for negotiation under the Specific Claims Policy. (French version)
Commissioners include: Roger J. Augstine, Daniel J. Bellegarde, and Renée Dupuis.
[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.]
Ensuring Equitable Distribution of Land in Ghana: Spirituality or Policy? A Case Study From the Forest-Savanna Agroecological Zone of Ghana
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Samuel Awuah-Nyamekye
Paul Sarfo-Mensah
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 2, no. 4, Traditional Knowledge, Spirituality and Lands, 2011, pp. 1-18
Description
Study explores dual system used in land tenure distribution and management that faces policy making.
Ethnography of One Family on a 1939 Blackfeet Indian Reservation Farm Project in Montana
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Donald D. Pepion
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 3, Summer, 2013, pp. 123-140
Description
Looks at water rights and land use development and how the government tried to change the way American Indians used their land.
Extinguishment of Aboriginal Title in Canada: Treaties, Legislation, and Judicial Discretion
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kent McNeil
Ottawa Law Review, vol. 33, 2001-2002, pp. 301-346
Description
Argues that from the case Chippewas of Sarnia there may be a third method of extinguishment of Aboriginal title; extinguishment by exercise of judicial discretion.
Farm Labourers and Small-Scale Producers in Latin America
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jim Handy
Labour/Le Travail, no. 55, Spring, 2005, pp. 233-243
Description
Books reviewed: In the Shadows of the State: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995 by Steve Striffler.
Cutting the Wire: The Story of the Landless Movement in Brazil by Sue Branford and Jan Rocha.
Feeding the Market: South American Farmers, Trade and Globalization by John Hellin and Sophie Higman.
Final Report: Dealing for a '67 Strato Chief: Folk Typologies in the Fed./Prov. Negotiation Culture
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Office of the Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs
Description
Case studies of five sets of negotiations: federal self-government, federal health care transfer, Aboriginal Fishing Strategy, bilateral processes with British Columbia, and with third party stakeholders. Each analyzed in terms of will, policy coherence, mandate, and process.
First Nations and the Resource Future: The Path to Economic Partnership
Alternate Title
North at Trent 2015 Lecture Series
Saskatchewan First nations and the Province s's Resource Future
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Perry Bellegarde
Description
National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations discusses Saskatchewan's current resource-based boom, necessity for collaboration, and impact and benefit agreements with governments and companies.
Duration: 2:00:34.
First Peoples Law 2014
Alternate Title
Making the Ring of Fire a Reality
New Human Rights Museum a Monument to Contradiction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Bruce McIvor
[Cornelius Wabasse
Erwin Redsky
Cathy Merrick]
Description
Topics include the implications of the Tsilhqot’in and Grassy Narrows decisions, duty to consult, provincial treaty obligations, and proposed federal land claims policy.
A Forest for the Trees: Forest Management and the Yurok Environment, 1850 to 1994
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lynn Huntsinger
Sarah McCaffrey
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 19, no. 4, 1995, pp. 155-192
Description
Analysis of the replacement of Indigenous forest management regimes with Euro-American forestry programs and the eventual loss of Yurok ownership.
"Formalizing" Land Tenure in First Nations: Evaluating the Case for Reserve Tenure Reform
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jamie Baxter
Michael Trebilcock
Indigenous Law Journal, vol. 7, no. 2, 2009, pp. 45-122
Description
Examines the implications of a national First Nations Land Title System (FNLTS) as it relates to economic development. The article also compares and looks at other Indigenous communities internationally.
From Consultation to Reconciliation: Aboriginal Rights and the Crown's Duty to Consult
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Sonia Lawrence
Patrick Macklem
Canadian Bar Review, vol. 79, no. 1, February 2000, pp. 196-224
Description
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.
From Terra Nullius to Every Person’s Land: Legal Bases for Aboriginal Involvement in National Parks Precedents from the Northern Territory
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert Blowes
Aboriginal Law Bulletin, no. 52, October 1991, p. 4
Description
Argues that the National Park arrangements in the NorthernTerritory, Australia, show a greater degree of reconciliation than do the New South Wales proposals.
The Government and the Indians: The American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island, 1969-1971
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Garvey
Troy Johnson
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 151-188
Description
Gives a history of the occupation of Alcatraz Island, with a vacant federal penitentiary, including how Native Americans claimed title to the island under the doctrine of “right of discovery”.
The Haldimand Agreement: A Continuing Covenant
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael P. P. Simon
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 7, no. 2, 1983, pp. 27-50
Description
Historical review of the Iroquois and the continuing dispute over inherent sovereign rights from the signing, in 1784, up to the appeal at the United Nations in 1945.
Hawaiian Style Graffiti and the Questions of Sovereignty, Law, Property, and Ecology
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Masahide T. Kato
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 3, September 2018, pp. 277-288
Description
Examines the ways that Hawaiian graffiti artists and art interrogate and resist the influences of colonial and military occupation. Author uses a process of socio-historical contextualization to draw parallels between the time of the Hawaiian Kingdom and the present and to examine the expression of ancestral knowledge in aerosol art.
History, the Courts and Treaty Policy: Lessons from Marshall and Nisga'a
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
J.R. (Jim) Miller
Aboriginal Policy Research, vol. 1
Description
Discusses landmark court cases dealing with fishing rights in Nova Scotia and a dispute involving Aboriginal title which took place in British Columbia. Chapter two from Setting the Agenda for Change, vol. 1, which vol. 1 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series. Originally presented at the Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2002.