First Nation and Government Relations
Articles
Decolonizing Co-Management in Northern Canada
This article by Marc G. Stevenson outlines trends in resource co-management between northern Aboriginal peoples and all levels of Canadian government. The article addresses the ways in which these agreements are negotiated through Eurocentric value systems that either marginalize and/or appropriate the ecological knowledge and management practices of Aboriginal peoples.
Film & Video
Aboriginal March From Queen's Park in Toronto. YouTube (Toronto Star Video) (1:37 min)
Interview with Robert Lovelace and others about their community’s struggle to protect their land from uranium mining. Speaking about government relations in Ontario between Aboriginal people and the Provincial Government. Images from protest march at Queen’s Park. May 29, 2008 (Intermediate|Senior)
Reports
Royal Commission Report on Aboriginal Peoples (1996)
From the report: "This report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples concerns government policy with respect to the original historical nations of this country. Those nations are important to Canada, and how Canada relates to them defines in large measure its sense of justice and its image in its own eyes and before the world."