LibGuides: GEOG 129 Human Geography: Resources, Development and Society: Aboriginal land claims and resource use/ access in Canada

E-Books

Arrows in a Quiver by James Frideres
Call Number: E-Books
ISBN: 9780889776784
Publication Date: 2019
In response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's report, Arrows in a Quiver provides an overview of Indigenous-settler relations, including how land is central to Indigenous identity and how the Canadian state systematically marginalizes Indigenous people. Illustrating the various "arrows in a quiver" that Indigenous people use to fight back, such as grassroots organizing, political engagement, and the courts, Frideres situates "settler colonialism" historically and explains why decolonization requires a fundamental transformation of long-standing government policy for reconciliation to occur. The historical, political, and social context provided by this text offers greater understanding and theorizes what the effective devolution of government power might look like. A comprehensive political and legal overview of Indigenous-settler relations in Canada, written at a level appropriate for post-secondary students, this book is an essential primer for understanding these key relations in Canada today. "A must-read for non-Indigenous settlers in Canada." ?David McNab, co-author of Canada's First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples from Earliest Times "James Frideres has devoted his professional life to analysing this critical topic from multiple perspectives [and now, in Arrows in a Quiver,] he offers crucial insights for possible ways forward." ?Arthur J. Ray, OC, FRSC, Professor Emeritus of History, University of British Columbia, and author of Aboriginal Rights Claims and the Making and Remaking of History

Neeganagwedgin, E. (2019). Indigenous Lands and Territories: Self-Determination, Activism and Canada’s White Paper. Journal of Diplomacy & International Relations, 21(1), 84–96.
Indigenous peoples in Canada, regardless of their nation, have long asserted their place on their ancestral territories now known as Canada. Indigenous peoples thrived on their ancestral territories during the pre-contact period. However, with the arrival of outsiders from Europe, Indigenous peoples experienced major shifts and overwhelmingly detrimental changes to their distinct ways of life, social structures, economies, governance systems and everyday processes. This article provides an overview of both the historicity and contemporary understanding of Canada's imposition of policies and laws on Indigenous peoples, often by violent means. These actions derived as part of the continuum of building and expanding of the Canadian settler nation-state. Both past and current policies have worked to undermine Indigenous self-determination and governance. These policies were paradoxically codified using terms such as inclusionary, equality and dignity. This article specifically examines the federal government's 1969 Statement of the Government on Indian Policy (the 'White Paper, which proposed eliminating any recognition of the rights of Indigenous people in Canada'), and it references the more recent Indigenous Rights Framework which the federal government introduced in 2018. It argues that both of these documents were designed to suppress, erase and assimilate Indigenous peoples. This article also provides an overview of the ways in which Indigenous peoples have mobilized in response to these attacks on their right to selfdetermination and their historical treaty rights with Canada.
Paul Sabin. (1995). Voices from the Hydrocarbon Frontier: Canada’s Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry (1974-1977). Environmental History Review, 19(1), 17–48. https://doi.org/10.2307/3984772
Proposals for a natural gas pipeline down the Mackenzie Valley drew their impetus directly from the major oil strike in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in 1968 and from high energy prices in the early 1970s. In March 1974, Canadian Arctic Gas Pipeline Limited, a consortium of 27 United States and Canadian oil and gas firms, advanced a plan to build a 2,625 mile pipeline east from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to the Mackenzie Delta in northern Canada, and then south down the Mackenzie River Valley to southern Canada and the United States.6 The following fall, one of the members of the consortium, Foothills Pipeline Company, withdrew to propose an all-Canadian pipeline to transport gas only from the Mackenzie Delta. Neither of the proposed Mackenzie Valley gas pipelines was ever built, and in fact, the natural gas reserves of the north remain undeveloped.