Land Claims

"The Indian Specific Claims Commission (ICC) was formed in 1991 in response to the Oka crisis. Its purpose was to resolve and expedite specific claims arising out of promises made to Indigenous nations in treaties, the Indian Act, and the larger set of legal and ethical obligations flowing from the Crown to those nations. Had those promises been kept, these claims would not exist.

Describes and analyzes legislation related to the property (land) rights of the Metis in Manitoba.

"For some years now, the Government of Canada has been engaged in attempting to resolve what have come to be known as Comprehensive Native Land Claims, through a negotiation process. There has been moderate success but much more remains to be done. The purpose of this book is to set out for the consideration of all Canadians what the government proposes as the way forward. I say all Canadians advisedly: I hope this book will be looked at by Natives and non-Natives, by northerners and southerners, by those among us who seek to conserve and by those among us who seek to develop.

This book contains a collection of mid-19th century historical documents from British Columbia dealing with the issue of Indian land ownership.

"An examination of the nature and extent of the obligation of the Canadian government to settle the aboriginal land claims in Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory from the orders transferring the land in 1870." -- Provided by publisher

"A well-known member of the circle of Confederation poets, Duncan Campbell Scott is generally considered a kind-hearted and sympathetic portrayer of the nobility of the Canadian Indian. But his real belief about the conditions and future of Canada's Native people is revealed in his official writings during his long tenure as Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs.

"Examines within an historical and judicial context the "federalization" of Indian reserves and the use of the concept of the usufruct in defining the nature of Indian interest in reserve lands after Confederation." - From the preface

"Resource development and Aboriginal land rights are issues that have been prominent in law and policy in Australia for the last quarter century. The problem has been to achieve a resolution of the conflict that they have engendered. The dissatisfaction expressed by many groups does not suggest that such a resolution has yet emerged.

"In 1990, Richard Bartlett was appointed to the Chair of Natural Resources Law at The University of Calgary. While holding that position, he undertook a research project with respect to resource development and aboriginal land rights. As part of the project, Professor Bartlett conducted a seminar on that subject at the Faculty of Law, The University of Calgary, on 3 May 1990. The seminar was co-sponsored by the Faculty of Law and the Canadian Institute of Resources Law. The two papers that comprise this volume are the background research papers prepared for the purposes of the seminar.

"For more than fifteen years, Keith Crowe's A History of the Original Peoples of Northern Canada has informed a multitude of residents in and visitors to the Canadian North and has served as a standard text. Now, in a new epilogue, Crowe describes and analyses the changes in the North which have come about since the book's first publication.