G O V E R N M E N T D O C U M E N T S
This page contains a selection of materials published by federal, provincial, territorial and/or Aboriginal governments on issues of importance to Non-Status Indians. Please e-mail me if you are aware of other important documents that I should add to this list.
Aboriginal Justice Implementation Commission, The Report of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry of Manitoba (November 1999), online: AJIC http://www.ajic.mb.ca/volume.html
Assembly of First Nations, “Federal Government Funding to First Nations: The Facts, the Myths, and the Way Forward” (Ottawa: Assembly of First Nations, no date) online: AFN http://www.afn.ca/cmslib/general/Federal-Government-Funding-to-First-Nations.pdf
________. “Our Nations, Our Governments: Choosing Our Own Paths” (Ottawa: AFN, 2005).
________. “Policy Update: Elections & Leadership Selection and First Nations Citizenship, Membership and Registration (Status)”, online: AFN http://www.afn.ca/misc/PolicyUpdates.pdf
________. “Proposed Framework to Advance the Recognition and Implementation of First Nations Governments” (Ottawa: AFN, 2005).
Assembly of First Nations and Indian and Northern Affairs, Joint Technical Committee, “First Nations Registration (Status) and Membership Research Report”, online: AFN http://www.afn.ca/misc/mrp.pdf
Brant Castellano, M., “Reflections on Identity and Empowerment: Recurring Themes in the Discourse on and with Aboriginal Youth” in Government of Canada, Hope or Heartbreak: Aboriginal Youth and Canada’s Future, (Ottawa: Policy Research Initiative, 2008) Vol.10, No.1, online: Government of Canada http://www.policyresearch.gc.ca/doclib/Horizons_Vol10Num1_final_e.pdf
Clatworthy, S., “BillC-31, Indian Registration and First Nations Membership”, (Winnipeg: Four Directions Consulting Group, 2001).
________. “Factors Contributing to Unstated Paternity” (Winnipeg: Four Directions Project Consultants, 2003) online: INAC http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca
________. Four Directions Consulting Group, “Indian Registration, Membership and Population Change in First Nation Communities” (Winnipeg: INAC, 2005).
________, Four Directions Consulting Group, “Implications of First Nations Demography: Final Report” (Winnipeg: INAC, 2004).
________. “Paternal Identity and Entitlement to Indian Registration: The Manitoba Context” (Winnipeg: Four Directions Consulting Group, 2001).
________. “Reassessing the Population Impacts of Bill C-31” (Winnipeg: Four Directions Project Consultants, 2001) online: INAC http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca
________. “Revised Population Scenarios Concerning the Population Implications of Section 6 of the Indian Act” (Winnipeg: Four Directions Consulting Group, 1994).
Clatworthy, S., Smith A., “Population Implications of the 1985 Amendments to the Indian Act: Final Report” (Winnipeg: Four Directions Consulting Group, 1992).
Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, “Indian Act – Bill C-31 – Part II”, online: CAP http://www.abo-peoples.org/programs/C-31/c-31-2.html
________. “Justice is Equality: Post-Corbiere Report”, online: CAP http://www.abopeoples.org/policy/Justice_Is_Equality_PostCorbierejuly08.pdf
Daniels, H., Metis and Non-Status Indian Constitutional Review Commission, Native People and the Constitution of Canada: The Report of the Metis and Non-Status Indian Constitutional Review Commission, (Ottawa: Mutual Press, 1981).
Feri, M., Wherrett, J., Parliamentary Information and Research Service, Library of Parliament, “Indian Status and Band Membership Issues” (February 2003), online: Library of Parliament http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/library/PRBpubs/bp410e.htm#bcontinuingtx
Fiske, J., Cornet W., et al., “First Nations Women, Governance and the Indian Act: A Collection of Policy Research Reports” (Ottawa: Status of Women Canada, 2001), online: NAHO http://www.naho.ca/english/pdf/re_other_orgs_women_goverance.pdf#page=123
Fiske, J., George, E., “Seeking Alternatives to Bill C-31: From Cultural Trauma to Cultural Revitalization through Customary Law” (Ottawa: Status of Women, 2006).
Guimond, E., Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, “Fuzzy Definitions and Population Explosion: Changing Identities of Aboriginal Groups in Canada” in D. Newhouse, E. Peters, eds., Not Strangers in These Parts: Urban Aboriginal Peoples (Ottawa: Policy Research Initiative, 1991), online: Policy Research Initiative
www.policyresearch.gc.ca/doclib/AboriginalBook_e.pdf
Hanselman, C., Shared Responsibility: Final Report and Recommendations of the Urban Aboriginal Initiative (Calgary: Canada West Foundation, 2003) online: Canada West.
Hull, J., “Aboriginal Single Mothers in Canada, 1996: A Statistical Profile” (Winnipeg: Prologica Research Inc, 2001).
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. “Comprehensive Land Claims Policy”, (Ottawa, Minister of Supply and Services, 1986).
________. “Federal Policy Guide: Aboriginal Self-Government: The Government of Canada’s Approach to the Implementation of the Inherent Right and the Negotiation of Aboriginal Self-Government” (Ottawa: Minister of Public Works and Government Services, 1995), online: INAC http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/al/ldc/ccl/pubs/sg/sg-eng.asp#PartI
________. “Guidelines for Federal Negotiators: Membership/Citizenship in Self-Government Agreements” (Ottawa: INAC, 2003) obtained via Access to Information Request.
________. “The Indian Act Past and Present: A Manual on Registration and Entitlement Legislation” (Ottawa: INAC, 1991).
________. “Statement of Reconciliation” (7 January 1998), online: INAC <http//www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/gs/rec_html>.
Institute on Governance, “Roundtable on Citizenship and Membership Issues: Summary of the 2nd IOG Aboriginal Governance Roundtable” (Ottawa: Institute on Governance, 2004) online: IOG http://www.iog.ca/publications/2004_tanaga2summary.pdf
Joint Ministerial Advisory Committee, “Recommendations and Legislative Options to The Honourable Robert Nault, P.C., M.P., Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development: Final Report” (Ottawa: Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 2002) online: INAC http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/ps/lts/fng/prev/JMACFR_M802_e.html
La Forest, Hon. G., Nicholas, Judge G., Report of the Task Force on Aboriginal Issues, (Fredericton: Task Force, 1999).
McDonald, R., Statistics Canada, Canada’s Off-Reserve Aboriginal Population, (1991) 23 Canadian Social Trends, 1.
Moss, W., Gardner-O’Toole, E., “Aboriginal People: History of Discriminatory Laws” (Ottawa: Library of Parliament, November 1991), online: http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/bp175-e.htm#INTRODUCTION(txt)
Native Women’s Association of Canada, “A First Nations Citizenship Code: 1986”, online: NWAC http://www.nwac-hq.org/en/documents/AFirstNationsCitizenshipCode.pdf
________. “Aboriginal Women and Unstated Paternity: An Issue Paper: Prepared for the National Aboriginal Women’s Summit” (20-22 June 2007), online: NWAC http://www.nwac-hq.org/en/documents/nwac-paternity.pdf
________. “Aboriginal Women’s Rights are Human Rights”, online: NWAC http://www.nwac-hq.org/documents/AboriginalWomensRightsAreHumanRights.pdf
________. “Aboriginal Women, Self-Government & The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: In the context of the 1991 ‘Canada Package’ on Constitutional Reform: An NWAC Analysis” (1991) online: NWAC http://www.nwac-hq.org/_includes/pdf_file.php?id=36
________. “Guide to Bill C-31: 1986: An Explanation of the 1985 Amendments to the Indian Act”, online: NWAC http://www.nwac-hq.org/documents/GuidetoBillC31.pdf
________. “Matriarchy and the Canadian Charter”, online: NWAC http://www.nwachq.org/en/documents/MatriarchyandtheCanadianCharter.pdf
________. “Preliminary Impacts & Concerns Flowing From the Implementation of Bill C-31: August 10, 1988”, online: NWAC http://www.nwac-hr.org/en/documents/PreliminaryImpactsfromImplementationofBillC-1.pdf
Right Honourable Prime Minister Stephen Harper, “Statements by Ministers: Statement of Apology to Former Students of Indian Residential Schools” (11 June 2008), online: INAC http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/ai/rqpi/apo/pmsh-eng.asp
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, vols. 1-5 (Ottawa: Minister of Supply and Services Canada, 1996).
Statistics Canada, “A profile of Canada’s North American Indian population without legal Indian Status” (Ottawa: Statistics Canada, 2004).
________. “Aboriginal Peoples in Canada in 2006: Inuit, Métis and First Nations, 2006 Census: Aboriginal Peoples, 2006 Census: Census Year 2006”, online: StatCan http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/analysis/aboriginal/pdf/97-558-XIE2006001.pdf
________. “Canada’s Ethnocultural Mosaic, 2006 Census: National Picture”, online: StatCan http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/analysis/ethnicorigin/increased.cfm
________. “Overview of Education Conditions of the Aboriginal Population in Canada” (Ottawa: Statistics Canada, 2005).