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Indigenous Peoples in Newfoundland and Labrador
Indigenous cultures recognized or seeking recognition in Newfoundland and Labrador today
Intergovernmental and Aboriginal Affairs Secretariat, Province of Newfoundland and Labrador. 2012.
Reserve nearest to Memorial University campus
Tanner, Adrian. 1998. The Aboriginal Peoples of Newfoundland and Labrador and Confederation. Newfoundland and Labrador Studies. Special Issue on Confederation 14(2): 238-252.
Tulk, Janice Esther. 2008. 鈥淥ur Strength Is Ourselves": Identity, Status, and Cultural Revitalization. M.A. Thesis, School of Music, Memorial University of Newfoundland. ISBN: 978-0-494-47919-3.
Nain, Sheshatshiu, and Miawpukek (Conne River)
Hanrahan, Maura. 2003. Royal Commission on Renewing and Strengthening Our Place in Canada.
The Qalipu Status First Nations people
Hurley, M.C. and R.C. Gordon. 2009. Ottawa: Government of Canada.
2011. Formation of Qalipu.
Robinson, Angela. 2012. 鈥楤eing and Becoming Indian鈥: Mi'kmaw Cultural Revival in the Western Newfoundland Region. The Canadian Journal of Native Studies 32(1): 1-31.
The Federal Government and the Residential School System
2007. Aboriginal Education Resources.
Barman, Jean and Thorne, Rachel. 2012. In Schooling in Transition: Readings in Canadian History of Education.
Milloy, John Sheridan. 1999. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press. See especially Chapter 2.
Mosby, Ian. 2013. Social History. 46(91): 146-172.
Regan, Paulette. 2010. Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
Sellars, Bev. 2013. . Vancouver, BC: Talonbooks.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Who is affected by treaties?
Epp, Roger. 2008. We Are All Treaty People: Prairie Essays. Calgary: University of Alberta Press.
Langton, Marcia, ed. 2006. Annandale, NWT, Australia: The Federation Press.
Morse, Brad W. 1994. "View from the North: Aboriginal and Treaty Issues in Canada." Thomas Law Review. 7: 671.
Usher, Peter J., Frank J. Tough, and Robert M. Galois. 1992. "Reclaiming the land: Aboriginal title, treaty rights and land claims in Canada." Applied Geography. 12(2): 109-132.
Wilson, Jamie. Sept. 7th, 2013. Winnipeg Free Press.
Peace and Friendship Treaties prior to 1779
Allen, Robert. 1996. Toronto: Dundurn Press Ltd.
Devere, Heather; Mark, Simon; and Verbitsky, Jane. 2011. A history of the language of friendship in international treaties. International Politics. 48(1): 46 鈥 70.
Ross, Robbie Alexander. 2001. The irony of the Marshall ruling: Using the Maritime Peace and Friendship Treaties to dissolve Mi'kmaq communal life. PhD diss., University of New Brunswick.
Stopp, Marianne P. 2002. Reconsidering Inuit presence in southern Labrador. 脡迟耻诲别蝉/滨苍耻颈迟/厂迟耻诲颈别蝉. 26(2):71-106.
Spoken and endangered Indigenous languages in Canada
Chandler, Michael J. and Christopher Lalonde.1998. Cultural Continuity as a Hedge against Suicide in Canada鈥檚 First Nations. Transcultural Psychiatry. 35: 191.
Frideres, James S. 2011. First Nations in the Twenty-First Century. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.
Kirkness, Verna J. 1998. "The Critical State of Aboriginal Languages in Canada." Canadian Journal of Native Education. 22(1): 93-107.
Krauss, Michael. 1996. Stabilizing indigenous languages. 16-21.
Langlois, St茅phanie. 2012. "Aboriginal Languages in Canada." 2011 Census of population. Ottawa: Statistics Canada.
Norris, Mary Jane. 2011. Aboriginal Policy Studies 1(2): 4-67.
Members of NunatuKavut
Brunger, Fern and Julie Bull. 2011. Whose agenda is it? Regulating health research ethics in Labrador. 脡迟耻诲别蝉/滨苍耻颈迟/厂迟耻诲颈别蝉. 35(1-2): 127-142.
Hanrahan, Maura.
Martin, Debbie H. 2011. International Journal of Circumpolar Health. 70 (4): 384-95.
Rankin, Lisa, Matthew Beaudoin, and Natalie Brewster. 2012. 鈥淪outhern Exposure: The Inuit of Sandwich Bay, Labrador.鈥 In Settlement, Subsistence, and Change Among the Labrador Inuit: The Nunatsiavummiut Experience. Ed. David C. Natcher et al. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 85.
Stopp, Marianne P. 2002. Reconsidering Inuit presence in southern Labrador. 脡迟耻诲别蝉/滨苍耻颈迟/厂迟耻诲颈别蝉. 26(2): 71-106.
Canada's Constitution (1982)
Borrows, John. 1997. "Frozen rights in Canada: Constitutional interpretation and the trickster." American Indian Law Review. 22(1): 37-64.
McNeil, Kent. 1982. "The Constitutional Rights of the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada." Supreme Court Law Review. 4: 255-265.
Slattery, Brian. 1982. "The Constitutional guarantee of Aboriginal and treaty rights." Queen's Law Journal. 8: 232.
Canadian Indigenous artists
Chauvin, Zachary G. April 2013. "Aboriginal Biographies: Political Leaders/Artist." Resource Links. 18:4: 34.
New, William H., ed. 1990. Native writers and Canadian writing. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
Melnyk, Rebecca. June 21st, 2013.
National Post. June 21, 2013.
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Some significant Canadian Indigenous musicians and bands
Keillor, Elaine. 1995. 'The emergence of postcolonial musical expressions of Aboriginal peoples within Canada." Cultural Studies. 9(1): 106-124.
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Nisga鈥檃 land claim settlement
Mills, Antonia Curtze. 1994. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
Province of British Columbia - Nisga'a Tribal Council - Government of Canada: Nisga'a Final Agreement. International Legal Materials. 37: 6, 11/1998): 1258 - 1295 ISSN 0020-7829
Rynard, Paul. 2000. 鈥淲elcome In, but Check Your Rights at the Door": The James Bay and Nisg_a'a Agreements in Canada. Canadian Journal of Political Science. 33(2): 211-244.
Sanders, Douglas. 1999. "We Intend to Live Here Forever: A Primer on the Nisga'a Treaty." University of British Columbia Law Review. 33: 103.
Usher, Peter J. 2003. "Environment, race and nation reconsidered: Reflections on Aboriginal land claims in Canada." The Canadian Geographer. 47(4): 365-382.
The Athabasca tar sands development
Thompson, Niobe, and Tom Radford. Documentary on Fort Chippewyan and effects from bitumen industry. Al Jazeera.
Linnitt, Carol. DesmogCanada. May 24, 2013.
Thomas-M眉ller, Clayton. March 6th, 2008. Canadian Dimension.
Urquhart, Ian. November 2010. Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies Working Paper: Energy Series, # 10-005.
Westman, Clinton. 2013. "Social Impact Assessment and the Anthropology of the Future in Canada's Tar Sands." Human Organization. 72(2): 111. ISSN 0018-7259
Legal Definitions of 鈥淪tatus鈥
Coates, K. (2008). . Research Paper for the National Centre for First Nations Governance.
First Nations people off reserve in Canada
Gionet, Linda. 2009. "First Nations people: Selected findings of the 2006 Census." Canadian Social Trends. 87: 52-59.
Lawrence, Bonita. 2004. "Real" Indians and Others: Mixed-blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.
Peters, Evelyn and Chris Andersen. 2013. Indigenous in the City: Contemporary Identities and Cultural Innovation. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
Statistics Canada. 2011.
Indigenous people not recognized in Newfoundland's Confederation
Hanrahan, Maura. 2003. Royal Commission on Renewing and Strengthening Our Place in Canada.
Malone, Greg. 2012. Don't tell the Newfoundlanders. The true story of Newfoundland's Confederation with Canada. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada.
The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP, 1996)
Andersen, Chris and Claude Denis. 2003. "Urban Natives and the nation: Before and after the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples." Canadian Review of Sociology. 40(4): 373-390.
Borrows, John. 2000."Domesticating doctrines: Aboriginal peoples after the Royal Commission."McGill Law Journal 46: 615.
Castellano, Marlene Brant. 2002. "Renewing the relationship: A perspective on the impact of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples." Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development.
Erasmus, George and Ren茅 Dussault.1996. "People to people, nation to nation: highlights from the report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples." Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Ottawa: Government of Canada.
Government of Canada. 1996.
Land, L. Y. 2001. Gathering dust or gathering strength: What should Canada do with the report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal peoples? Blindspots: Perspectives on the Federal Government's Response to the Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Ottawa: Aboriginal Rights Coalition.
Indigenous population in Canada
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada. August 30th, 2013.
The Prime Minister's Apology concerning Indian Residential Schools on 11 June 2008
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). June 11, 2008.
Corntassel, Jeff and Cindy Holder. 2008. Who鈥檚 sorry now? Government apologies, truth commissions, and Indigenous self-determination in Australia, Canada, Guatemala, and Peru. Human Rights Review 9(4): 465-489.
Henderson, Jennifer and Pauline Wakeham. 2009. "Colonial reckoning, national reconciliation? Aboriginal peoples and the culture of redress in Canada." ESC: English Studies in Canada. 35(1): 1-26.
James, Matt. 2008. "Wrestling with the past: apologies, quasi-apologies, and non-apologies in Canada." In Ed. M. Gibney et al. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 137.
Dorell, M. (2009). From Reconciliation to Reconciling: Reading What 鈥淲e Now Recognize鈥 in the Government of Canada鈥檚 2008 Residential Schools Apology. ESC, 35(1), 27-45.
MacKinnon, S. (2012) Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
The national organizations of Inuit, Innu and Mi鈥檏maq
Kennedy, John C. (2015). . 脡tudes/Inuit/Studies, 39(1) 2015, 225-242.
Indigenous languages of Newfoundland and Labrador
Hanrahan, Maura.
Statistics Canada. August 30th, 2013.
Thorburn, Jennifer. 2006. "Language Attitudes and Use in the Innu Community of Sheshatshiu, Labrador." MA Thesis: Department of Linguistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
MacKenzie, Marguerite (2013). . Newfoundland Quarterly, 106(1), 49.
Impact of the 1918 Spanish influenza
Mamelund, Svenn-Erik, Lisa Sattenspiel, and Jessica Dimka. 2013. "Influenza-Associated Mortality during the 1918鈥1919 Influenza Pandemic in Alaska and Labrador: A Comparison." Social Science History. 37(2): 177-229.
Palmer, Craig T., Lisa Sattenspiel, and Chris Cassidy. 2007. "Boats, trains, and immunity: the spread of the Spanish flu on the island of Newfoundland." Newfoundland and Labrador Studies. 22(2): 1-27.
Relocations of Inuit and Innu and Mi鈥檏maq populations
Burns, Au拧ra. 2006. "Moving and Moving Forward: Mushuau Innu Relocation from Davis Inlet to Natuashish." Acadiensis. 64-84.
Canadian Human Rights Commission. 2003. Report to the Canadian Human Rights Commission on the Treatment of the Innu of Labrador by the Government of Canada.
Dalsb酶, Elisabeth Th酶rring. 2010. M.A. Thesis, Department of Indigenous Studies, University of Troms酶.
Evans, Peter. 2012. "Abandoned and Ousted by the State: The Relocations from Nutak and Hebron, 1956鈥1959." In Settlement, Subsistence, and Change Among the Labrador Inuit: The Nunatsiavummiut Experience. Eds. David C. Natcher et al. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 85.
The Innu tea doll
Butland, Grace. 2001. Saltscapes.
Byrne, Nympha and Camille Fouillard, eds. 2000. It's like the legend: Innu women's voices. Toronto: Canadian Scholars鈥 Press.
Samson, Colin. 2000. London Journal of Canadian Studies. 16: 84-102.
The 1876 Indian Act
Borrows, John. May 2008. Seven generations, seven teachings: Ending the Indian Act. Research Paper for the National Centre for First Nations Governance.
Cannon, Martin. 2006. "An Act to Amend the Indian Act 1985 and the Accommodation of Sex Discriminatory Policy." Canadian Review of Social Policy. 56: 40.
Iacovetta, Franca and Heidi Bohaker. 2009. "Making Aboriginal People 'Immigrants Too': A Comparison of Citizenship Programs for Newcomers and Indigenous Peoples in Postwar Canada, 1940s-1960s." Canadian Historical Review. 90(3): 427 鈥 461.
Lawrence, Bonita. 2003. "Gender, race, and the regulation of native identity in Canada and the United States: An overview." Hypatia. 18(2): 3-31.
Lawrence, Bonita. 2004. Real Indians and others: Mixed-blood urban Native peoples and Indigenous nationhood. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.
LePage, Pierre. In Aboriginal Peoples: Fact & Fiction. Montreal. Commisssion des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse.
Mathias, Joe and Gary R. Yabsley. 1991. "Conspiracy of legislation: The Suppression of Indian rights in Canada." BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly. 89: 34-45.
Sawchuk, Joe. 2001. The American Indian Quarterly. 25(1): 73-92.
Thobani, Sunera.2007. Exalted subjects: Studies in the making of race and nation in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Systemic Racism
Hutchings, C. (2002).
Indigenous teachings about land
Akiwenzie-Damm, Kateri. 1996. "We Belong To This Land - A View of 'Cultural Difference'." Journal of Canadian Studies. 31(3): 21-28.
Berneshawi, Suzanne. 1997. Canadian Journal of Native Studies. 17(1): 115-148.
Castellano, Marlene Brant. 2000. 鈥淯pdating Aboriginal traditions of knowledge." In Indigenous knowledges in global contexts: Multiple readings of our world. Eds. Bud L. Hall et al. Toronto: University of Toronto Press: 21-36.
Cizek, P. 1993. "Guardians of Manomin - Aboriginal self-management of wild-rice harvesting." Alternatives: Perspectives on society technology and environment. 19 (3): 29 鈥 32.
Simpson, Leanne. 2002. "Indigenous environmental education for cultural survival." Canadian Journal of Environmental Education. 7(1): 13.
Turner, Nancy, Marianne Boelscher Ignace, and Ronald Ignace. 2000. "Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Wisdom of Aboriginal Peoples in British Columbia." Ecological Applications. 10(5): 1275-1287.
Indigenous conceptions of health and well-being
Legal precedents and the Royal Proclamation of 1763
Borrows, John. 1994. "Constitutional law from a First Nation perspective: Self-government and the Royal Proclamation." University of British Columbia Law Review. 28: 1.
Borrows, John. 1994. 鈥淲ampum at Niagara: The Royal Proclamation, Canadian legal history, and self-government.鈥 In Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Canada. Ed. M. Asch. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
Slattery, Brian. 1992. 113-132.
Canadian Indigenous athletes
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Indigenous politicians in Newfoundland and Labrador
Indigenous political figures in Newfoundland and Labrador
Non-Indigenous political figures in Newfoundland and Labrador
The Canadian state and private mining companies
Bartlett, R. 1983. Mineral Rights on Indian Reserves." Canadian Journal of Native Studies. 3(2): 9-23.
Keith, R. 1996. "Aboriginal Communities and Mining." Northern Perspectives. 23 (3/4): 1-20.
MiningWatch Canada. July 18, 2012.
Notzke, Claudia. 1994. Toronto: Captus Press.
Resettlement of Indigenous peoples in North America
Billson, Janet Mancini. 1990. "Opportunity or tragedy: The impact of Canadian resettlement policy on Inuit families." American Review of Canadian Studies. 20(2): 187-218.
Bussidor, I. and 脺. Bilgen-Reinart. 1997. Night Spirits: The story of the relocation of the Sayisi Dene. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press.
Natcher, David C., Lawrence Felt, and Andrea Proctor. Eds. 2012. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press.
Ronda, J. P. 1999. "We Have a Country": Race, Geography, and the Invention of Indian Territory." Journal of the Early Republic. 19(4): 739-755.
Samson, Colin. 2003. A Way of Life that Does Not Exist: Canada and the Extinguishment of the Innu. London: Verso Press.
Educational assistance for Indigenous people in Canada
Michael Mendelson. July 2006. Caledon Institute of Social Policy.
Godlewska, Anne M. C., Schaefli, Laura M., and Chaput, Paul J. A. 2013. "First Nations assimilation through neoliberal educational reform." The Canadian Geographer (Special Issue: Critical Geographies of Education). 57(3): 271鈥279.
First Nations and Inuit Post-Secondary Funding
Churchill Falls development and the Muskrat Falls development from Indigenous perspectives
Crabb, P. 1973. "Churchill Falls鈥擳he Costs and Benefits of a Hydro-Electric Development Project.' Geography. 58(4): 330-335.
Storey, Keith, Larry Felt, and David Vardy. 2011.
Aboriginal Reserves
Outstanding land or status claims in Newfoundland and Labrador
Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada. 2013. Ottawa: Government of Canada.
Alcantara, Christopher. 2007. "Explaining Aboriginal Treaty Negotiation Outcomes in Canada: The Cases of the Inuit and the Innu in Labrador." Canadian Journal of Political Science. 40(1): 185-207.
Land claims in Canada
Asch, M. 1997. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
Coates, Kenneth. 1992. Aboriginal Land Claims in Canada: A regional perspective. Toronto: Addison-Wesley Pub Co.
Usher, Peter J. 2003. "Environment, race and nation reconsidered: Reflections on Aboriginal land claims in Canada." The Canadian Geographer. 47(4): 365-382.
Usher, Peter J., Frank J. Tough, and Robert M. Galois. 1992. "Reclaiming the land: Aboriginal title, treaty rights and land claims in Canada." Applied Geography. 12(2): 109-132.
Idle No More
Peace, Tom. January 4th, 2013.
Peace and Friendship Treaties
Allen, Robert. 1996. Toronto: Dundurn Press.
Stopp, Marianne P. 2002. "Reconsidering Inuit presence in southern Labrador." 脡迟耻诲别蝉/滨苍耻颈迟/厂迟耻诲颈别蝉. 26(2): 71-106.
Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage.
The Powwow
Barry, Nancy H. and Paula Conlon. 2003. "Powwow in the classroom." Music Educators Journal. 90(2): 21-26.
Corrigan, Samuel W. 1970. "The Plains Indian powwow: Cultural integration in Manitoba and Saskatchewan." Anthropologica. 12(2): 253-277.
Mattern, Mark. 1996. "The powwow as a public arena for negotiating unity and diversity in American Indian life." American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 20(4): 183-201.
Inuit in a changing world
Martin, Debbie H. 2011. 鈥淣ow we got lots to eat and they鈥檙e telling us not to eat it鈥: Understanding changes to south-east Labrador Inuit relationships to food." International Journal of Circumpolar Health. 70 (4): 384-95.
is a way of looking at the effects climate change has on the people and environment of Nunavut, over time.
is the way we change our behaviour to deal with the impacts of climate change. In Nunavut, that can mean anything from finding new hunting routes as sea levels change to altering the way we build our homes as permafrost thaws.
A Guide to Inuit Culture, Produced by Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada
Indian Act discrimination against First Nations and M茅tis women
Bonita, Lawrence. 2004. Real Indians and others: Mixed-blood urban Native peoples and Indigenous nationhood. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.
Cannon, Martin John. 2005. "Bill C-31: An Act to Amend the Indian Act: Notes Toward a Qualitative Analysis of Legislated Injustice." The Canadian Journal of Native Studies. 25(1): 373-387.
Cannon, Martin. 2006. "An Act to Amend the Indian Act 1985 and the Accommodation of Sex Discrimination Policy." Canadian Review of Social Policy. 56: 40.
Mathias, Joe and Gary R. Yabsley. 1991. "Conspiracy of legislation: the Suppression of Indian rights in Canada." BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly. 89: 34-45.
Weaver, Sally. 1993. 鈥淔irst Nations Women and Government Policy, 1970-92: Discrimination and Conflict.鈥 In Changing Patterns: Women in Canada. Second ed. Eds. S. Burt, et al. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Inc., 92-150
Positive changes steered by First Nations, M茅tis and Inuit peoples
Toward a Decolonized Approach to Aboriginal Knowledge, Language, and Education
In a first for a Canadian court, the SCC recognizes Aboriginal title for
Castellano, M. B., Archibald, L. (2013). . Volume 4: Moving Forward, Making a Difference. White, J. P. et. al.
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