• The Declaration provides a framework for ensuring justice, dignity, and security for the world’s Indigenous peoples
• The development and adoption of the Declaration
• Ways and means of implementing the Declaration within Canada and internationally
• Accessible information and guidance on the Declaration and how it might be used to advance human rights
• Complete list of signatories to the May 1, 2008 Open Letter - see updates

•  Scope of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
•  History of negotiations
•  International law and Indigenous peoples
•  A personal perspective on the negotiations
•  Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and other international agreements

In this book . . .

What consititutes Indigenous Knowledge
Eurocentric views on what constitutes cultural and intellectual property
The importance of preserving Indigenous languages
The importance of international agreements in advancing Indigenous rights to language, culture, and knowledge
Foreign, national, and provincial legislation and the protection of Indigenous culture and knowledge
Why current intellectual property laws are inadequate to protect Indigenous rights
Proposals for creating a legal regime that will help revive and protect Indigenous knowledge and required consent for its use

• Reconciling the interests of Canada's First Nations and various levels of government
• Gitxsan relationship to the land and their community
• Using oral history to prove land claims

Winner of the 2009/10 Margaret McWilliams Award for Scholarly Writing (MB Historical Society)
• The story of Alexander Morris, the government’s chief negotiator on several treaties
• Treaty-making and the negotiating skills of First Nations' leaders
• Ottawa’s inaction on treaty implementation
• Conflicts between Morris and the government, and his struggle to uphold the treaties

    • Justice innovations
    • Initiatives in health and education
    • Financing and Intergovernmental relations
    • Aboriginal-municipal relations
    • International perspectives

• When is consultation required?
• At what stage should consultation occur?
• The importance of non-legal approaches to defining the duty
• How consultation can help build relationships
• The evolving international duty to consult and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• April 28, 2010 — An update is available. Click on "Updates" below.

• Theories of justice and constitutional interpretation
• Self-government agreements and the quest for justice
• Alternative justice and sentencing measures
• Applying the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to Aboriginal communities
• Lessons from the application of customary law in Africa
• Reconciling Aboriginal aspirations with Canadian law 
• Justice and Aboriginal women
• Restorative justice and Aboriginal peoples
• Honouring treaties

• What is Cree Narrative Memory?

• The importance of storytelling to understanding Cree history and future

• First hand examples of the tenacity and resiliency of the human spirit

• Interpreting the history of Indigenous people through their own stories

Using the narratives of his family, Neal McLeod shows how Cree narrative memory is more than simply storytelling: it involves the collective memory of generations, and the spirituality, dignity, humility, and connections through time and place of Cree peoples.

• What drew Aboriginal peoples to the Hills?
• The unique geology of the Hills
• Sitting Bull takes refuge near the Hills
• Fur and whiskey traders, and wolf hunters invade the Hills
• The arrival of the NWMP
• Removal of Aboriginal peoples from the Hills

History is not static. Building on the success of their earlier work, the authors revisit the hills and bring new and updated material to this book. While portions remain the same as the original book, new information about the Nakoda peoples and the Metis, as well as modern revelations, are added plus additional photographs and images.

Kiciwamanawak, my cousin. That is what my Elders said to call you. You have a treaty right to occupy and use this territory. You received that right when my family adopted yours.

So begins this passionate narrative on the treaty relationship between First Nations and the rest of Canadian society. In an easy to read style, the author discusses the justice system, reconciliation of laws, political divisions, resources, taxation, assimilation, and much more from an Aboriginal perspective on treaties.

• History of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal gambling
• The evolution of Canadian gaming laws
• The influence of US gaming operations
• The impact of the Canadian Aboriginal gaming industry
• Economic development and Aboriginal casinos
• Is gambling an effective economic development tool?

• Forcing the Indians from the Cypress Hills
• The transformation of Indian society on the Prairies
   from self-sufficient hunters to regulated farmers
• Early relations with settlers around the reserve
• Government control and power in daily life
• One person’s residential school experience

• The government, Guerin, and the golf course: the inside story of the Musqueam people’s struggle to right the injustice done to them by the federal government in leasing their land as a golf course
• What are fiduciary obligations?
• Issues to consider in advancing or defending breach of fiduciary obligation claims
• Advances in Aboriginal law and the law of fiduciary obligations as a result of the Guerin decision

In this book:

Can Aboriginal values be reconciled with Canadian jurisprudence?
How do philosophies, custom, and values shape one’s approach to Aboriginal issues?
How important is gender in litigation strategy?
What is the role of Aboriginal jurisprudences in the development of treaty and Aboriginal rights?
Are Aboriginal claims purely legal in nature or do they involve broader issues of defining societal relationships?
Can Canadian law and courts provide real justice for Aboriginal peoples?

In this book . . .

Aboriginal rights and title
Treaty rights
Crown's duty to consult with and its fiduciary duty to Aboriginal peoples
Federal, provincial,and territorial legislative authority
The Métis and Inuit
Constitution Act, 1982 and Aboriginal peoples
Aboriginal self-government
Aboriginal women and the law
Taxation

In this book . . .

How Aboriginal peoples confront and create justice in an urban environment
Where do healing, tradition, personal and community identity, and self-government enter into this process?
What constitutes a community?
What role should the community play in delivering and shaping justice for its members?
Diversion and the CPP in Toronto

In this book . . .

Criteria for defining who is Aboriginal
Who are the Métis under Canada's Constitution?
What is the effect of section 35 which defines Aboriginal peoples as the Indian, Inuit, and Métis?
What does it mean to recognize Aboriginal nations?
Using courts to define Aboriginal status
What factors give rise to membership in an Aboriginal group?
The US experience in defining and recognizing Indian nations, and how it is relevant to Canada

In this book . . .

A summary of Aboriginal and treaty rights
The legal situation of Aboriginal peoples in the Maritimes
Interpreting maritime treaties of peace and friendship
The history of reserve creation in the Maritimes
The Supreme Court’s Marshall decision
Government obligations in light of the Marshall decision
National implications of the Marshall decision

In this book . . .

Defining Aboriginal and treaty rights
The government's fiduciary responsibility to Aboriginal peoples
Limits on the government's ability to infringe Aboriginal and treaty rights
The impact of the Constitution on these rights
Principles for determining compensation for the breach of these rights
Third party responsibility for compensation
The American experience with compensation

In this book . . .

Issues in creating urban Indian reserves
Governanace of urban reserves: the relationship with home communities
Negotiating agreements for municipal services to urban reserves
"Do's" and "don'ts" of creating urban reserves

... Saskatchewan has been an incubator of practical innovation with respect to municipal-Aboriginal relations ... This book is a timely contribution to the sparse literature on municipal-Aboriginal relations.
Peter Frood, former Director, Centre for Municipal-Aboriginal Relations

Canada's criminal justice system has had a troubled relationship with Aboriginal people. Ross Gordon Green looks at the evolution of the Canadian criminal justice system, the values upon which it is based, and contrasts those values with Aboriginal concepts of justice.

Reprinted in 2009 on FSC Certified recycled stock.

In this book . . .

What organizations represent Canada's Aboriginal peoples?
How do these organizations fit within the context of the larger society?
How Aboriginal organizations set their political agendas
How government funding and internal politics affect these organizations
How these structures affect the ability of such organizations to represent Aboriginal peoples
Metis organizations in Alberta and Western Canada

In this book . . .

Who are the Indigenous peoples of the world, and where do they live?
How European values and capitalism effected all Indigenous peoples far beyond any threat they experienced prior to contact
How Indigenous societies have survived and are becoming stronger
The global context of the struggles of Indigenous peoples everywhere