This book is a collection of the best blogs from Indigenous Nationhood produced by well-known lawyer, activist and academic Pamela Palmater. Her blogs offer critical legal and political commentary and analysis on legislation, Aboriginal...
Legal status, laws, etc
- Author:Palmater, Pamela D.Summary:
- Author:Ross, RupertSummary:
Imagine a world in which people see themselves as embedded in the natural order, with ethical responsibilities not only toward each other, but also toward rocks, trees, water and all nature. Imagine seeing yourself not as a master of...
- Author:Kaiser-Derrick, ElspethSummary:
Indigenous women continue to be overrepresented in Canadian prisons; research demonstrates how their overincarceration and often extensive experiences of victimization are interconnected with and through ongoing processes of...
- Author:Nootens, ThierrySummary:
Belles résidences, domestiques, voyages... la vie des dames de la bourgeoisie, au début du 20e siècle, n'avait rien à voir avec le quotidien des ménagères de milieu populaire. Ces femmes n'étaient pas totalement à l...
- Author:Gehl, LynnSummary:
A follow-up to Claiming Anishinaabe, Gehl v Canada is the story of Lynn Gehl's lifelong journey of survival against the nation-state's constant genocidal assault against her existence. While Canada set up its colonial powers-including...
- Author:Poelzer, Greg, Coates, KennethSummary:
Canada is a country founded on relationships and treaties between Indigenous people and newcomers. Although recent court cases have strengthened Aboriginal rights, the cooperative spirit of the treaties is being lost as Canadians engage...
- Author:Flanagan, TomSummary:
Over the last thirty years Canadian policy on aboriginal issues has come to be dominated by an ideology that sees aboriginal peoples as "nations" entitled to specific rights. Indians and Inuit now enjoy legal privileges that...
- Author:Wolf Collar, LeroySummary:
Indigenous Peoples in Canada are continuing to assert their right to self-determination in this era of reconciliation. While dozens of Indigenous communities have signed varying forms of self-government agreements with the federal...
- Author:Lupick, TravisSummary:
Tells the story of a grassroots group of addicts in downtown Vancouver who throughout the 1990s and 2000s demanded that they be given the same rights as other citizens.
- Author:Crook, Kenneth H., Truscott, DerekSummary:
Since its initial release in 2004, Ethics for the Practice of Psychology in Canada has filled a vital need for a single source on professional ethics and law relevant to Canadian psychologists. Focussing on the most pertinent ethical...
- Author:Innes, Robert AlexanderSummary:
Offers a detailed analysis of the role of Elder Brother stories in historical and contemporary kinship practices in Cowessess First Nation, located in southeastern Saskatchewan. Robert Innes reveals how these tradition-inspired...
- Author:Delaney, JeromeSummary:
Understand the most common legal issues that confront K-12 teachers and administrators in Canada. In the second edition of Education Law for Teachers and School Administrators, Jerome G. Delaney provides educators with a comprehensive...
- Author:Labman, ShaunaSummary:
Resettlement - the selection and transfer of refugees from the state where they seek asylum to another state - is considered a tool of refugee protection. In this nuanced account of Canada's resettlement program from the...
- Author:Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah LakshmiSummary:
Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha is a poet and essayist whose most recent book, the memoir Dirty River, was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and the Publishing Triangle's Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction. She is also a long-...
- Author:Borrows, John, Larry Chartrand, Fitzgerald, Oonagh E., Risa SchwartzSummary:
Implementation in Canada of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) is a pivotal opportunity to explore the relationship between international law, Indigenous peoples' own laws, and Canada's...
- Author:Joseph, Robert P. C.Summary:
A guide to understanding the Indian Act and its impact on generations of Indigenous Peoples, as well as an examination of how Indigenous Peoples can return to self-government, self-determination, and self-reliance.