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Defining Aboriginal Title In The 90'S: Has The Supreme Court Finally Got It Right?, Kent Mcneil
Defining Aboriginal Title In The 90'S: Has The Supreme Court Finally Got It Right?, Kent Mcneil
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The arrival of Europeans in North America had a profound impact on the Aboriginal peoples who had been living here for thousands of years. Virtually everything changed: unfamiliar diseases like smallpox ravished the population; the fur trade and European settlement and resource use decimated the wildlife; new technology such as firearms altered Aboriginal economies and tribal relations; Christian evangelism affected spiritual beliefs and values; European imposition of sovereignty and governmental structures weakened, and in some cases replaced, Aboriginal forms of government; and so on. But more than anything else, the taking of Aboriginal lands by Europeans has probably had the …
Canada's Fiduciary Obligation To Aboriginal Peoples In The Context Of Accession To Sovereignty By Quebec, Volume 2: Domestic Dimensions, Renée Dupuis, Kent Mcneil
Canada's Fiduciary Obligation To Aboriginal Peoples In The Context Of Accession To Sovereignty By Quebec, Volume 2: Domestic Dimensions, Renée Dupuis, Kent Mcneil
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The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples was established on 26 August 1991 by Order in Council P.C. 1991-1597 with the following mandate: "The Commission of Inquiry should investigate the evolution of the relationship among aboriginal peoples (Indian, Inuit and Métis), the Canadian government, and Canadian society as a whole. It should propose specific solutions, rooted in domestic and international experience, to the problems which have plagued those relationships and which confront aboriginal peoples today. The Commission should examine all issues which it deems to be relevant to any or all of the aboriginal peoples of Canada..." (P.C. 1991-1597)
Ancestral Lands, Alien Laws: Judicial Perspectives On Aboriginal Title, Brian Slattery
Ancestral Lands, Alien Laws: Judicial Perspectives On Aboriginal Title, Brian Slattery
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This monograph examines critically the various ways in which Commonwealth and American judges have dealt with the issue of the land rights of Aboriginal peoples in the past. It devotes particular attention to the doctrine of Aboriginal title developed by Chief Justice Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. The nature and legal basis of that doctrine are reviewed in detail, and the relevance of the doctrine to Canadian and Commonwealth jurisdictions is explored.
Evaluation Of The Native Courtworker And Counselling Association Of British Columbia, Frederick H. Zemans, Ronni Richards
Evaluation Of The Native Courtworker And Counselling Association Of British Columbia, Frederick H. Zemans, Ronni Richards
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In April, 1975 the Native Legal Task Force was approached by the Board of Directors of the Native Courtworkers and Counselling Association of British Columbia for assistance in performing their first program evaluation since the founding of the association in October, 1973. After consultation, · it was agreed that such an evaluation would be undertaken by a Task Force staff researcher in conjunction with a legal consultant having knowledge of para-legals and experience in administration and evaluation.
Evaluation Of The Native Courtworker And Counselling Association Of British Columbia: A Synopsis, Frederick H. Zemans
Evaluation Of The Native Courtworker And Counselling Association Of British Columbia: A Synopsis, Frederick H. Zemans
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In April 1973, the Native Courtworkers and Counselling Association of British Columbia held t he first evaluation since its founding in October 1973. The two major objectives of the evaluation were (a) t o provide the Association with a detailed overview of the work of the courtworkers, the head office and the Board of Directors; (b) and to provide information for use in future planning of the Association. The information provided by the evaluation team included such things as statistics concerning the activities of the Association and first hand accounts of the functions of the Association in the field and …