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Books

Albert Lafferty, the President of the Fort Providence Metis Nation with the book that the nation has produced on Metis history in the area since 1921. Courtesy: NNSL photo/Roxanna Thompson (2007)

Albert Lafferty, President of the Fort Providence Metis Nation with book. Courtesy: NNSL/Roxanna Thompson (2007)

Since 1921: The Relationship Between Dehcho Metis and Canada

Aimed at the general public, Métis descendants and particularly at Métis youth, the publication provides an overview of Dehcho Métis history, in the context of the Dehcho Métis relationship with Canada. During 1921, Canada sent its “Treaty 11 Halfbreed Scrip Commission” to the Dehcho and other regions of the NWT, which sought the release and surrender of Métis Aboriginal rights on an individual basis in exchange for the issuance of scrip. That year marked the beginning of a Canadian Aboriginal policy approach to Métis which simultaneously stripped Métis of Aboriginal rights, while instituting more oppressive elements of Aboriginal policy upon Métis peoples, such as residential schools and social marginalization. The book documents these experiences and their implications for the development of Métis identity and cultural practice as well as present day relations between Dehcho Métis and Canada.

Book Chapters

Northern Exposure: Peoples, Powers and Prospects in Canada's North Living Up to the Spirit of Modern Treaties? Implementation and institutional development

The result of a wide-ranging IRPP research program, this chapter is part of a multidisciplinary volume that explores the following themes: Canada in the circumpolar world – environmental, scientific and foreign-policy dimensions; First Nations, Inuit and public governance; economic development – enterprise, sustainable development and communities; sustaining people – education and human capital; and developing a northern policy for the future. Public policy specialists review the implications of the unprecedented changes in governance that have taken place in the three territories and in Aboriginal communities in northern Quebec and Labrador over the past three decades and analyze challenges that must be faced in order to strengthen economic development and quality of life for northern residents.

Moving Toward Justice: Legal Traditions and Aboriginal JusticeJustice Authorities in Self-Government Agreements: The Importance of Conditions and Mechanisms of Implementation

This essay is part of an important collection that includes analyses of the challenges of legal pluralism, restorative justice, gender and race in sentencing, notions of community, and reconciliation in Aboriginal justice. The book aims to underscore the urgent need for Aboriginal justice reform, to suggest the outlines of the constitutional and administrative changes that will allow reform to occur, and to explore a series of specific issues that have arisen from reforms already made. It is a book for scholars, policy makers, and all those interested in or working with justice issues.

Reports

Indigenous Governance in the Arctic

The purpose of this report is to survey of the main forms of governancem developed and practiced among the indigenous peoples of the North American and the Russian Norths. Through an examination of governance forms, we identify key principles of Arctic1 indigenous governance. We have also considered how indigenous governance principles and practices have produced sustainable human environment relations, whether they have produced resilient social systems capable of adapting to non-linear and rapid changes in the relevant marine or terrestrial biophysical settings, and to what extent they have been able to withstand the impacts of external pressures.

Changing Northern Economies

By Chris Southcott, PhD and Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox, PhD, 2010.

Commissioned by the Northern Ministers Development Forum, this report look at economic history, circumstances and trends affecting Northern economic development, with recommendations for policy makers.

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Devolution and Resource Revenue Sharing in the Canadian North: Achieving Fairness Across Generations

by Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox and Stephen J. Mills

This paper was commissioned by the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation for their Policy Forum held in Fort Good Hope, NT during 2007. It examines the potential of devolution and resource revenue sharing benefits and advocates for an approach to managing assets that benefits future generations.

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Governance in Canada’s Northwest Territories (2004)

A plenary paper commissioned by the Northern Research Forum, this paper provides an overview of government institutions and key governance issues in the Northwest Territories (NWT),Canada.It is based on the author’s PhD fieldwork research, and close to a decade of experience working for Indigenous governments in the NWT on self government and related political development processes. It begins with a description of conceptual categories used throughout. This is followed by a brief sketch of the major institutional regimes structuring governmental authority and governance responsibilities in the NWT. Governance challenges are then described, followed by a concluding section offering questions for consideration in discussions of Circumpolar Governance.

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