Resources

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Aboriginal Rights

• Tsilhqot’in Nation v. British Columbia: Cultural Security and the Promise of Site-Specific Rights

    

• Appellants factum - filed 2010 03 06
• Appellant's reply to BC - October 8, 2010
• BC's response to William appeal
• Canada's response to William appeal
• Reply of appellant Roger William to Canada

• Canada's Factum 2010 06 04
• British Columbia's response to Canada's appeal
• Canada's reply factum to BC on title - 2010 10 08
• Canada's reply factum to Roger William on title - 2010 10 08
• Response of Roger William to Canada's appeal

• British Columbia's Factum
• Canada's Response to BC on Rights 2010 10 08
  
• Response of Roger William to BC's Factum 2010 10 08
  

Aboriginal Title

• Why The Bernard And Marshall Case Doesn't Hurt Aboriginal Title Claims In British Columbia
• Developing Your Negotiating Power
• The Mythical World of the Paperless Trial
• Mapping the Evidence
• Rejection of the “Postage Stamp” Approach to Aboriginal Title: The Tsilhqot'in Nation Decision

Agreements

• Basic Principles of Drafting Off-Reserve Agreements

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• Aboriginal Custom, Copyright, and the Canadian Constitution

Duty Of Consultation & Accommodation

• Agreements and Disagreements between Local Governments and First Nations
• Working Together: Improving First Nations and Local Government Coordination and Cooperation in Planning
• Benefit Sharing Agreements: A Guide for First Nations

Economic And Social Development

• On-Reserve Health Care: Options And Opportunities
• First Nations Fiscal And Statistical Management Act
• Agreements and Disagreements between Local Governments and First Nations
• Working Together: Improving First Nations and Local Government Coordination and Cooperation in Planning

Employment

• Employment Policies For First Nations Employers
• Managing The Move To Self-Governance

Environment

Expert report on woodland caribou [Rangifer tarandus caribou] in the
Traditional Territory of the Beaver Lake Cree Nation - Dr. Stan Boutin PhD, FRSC
Demand letter to Environment Minister Jim Prentice
Map of caribou ranges in Beaver Lake Cree traditional territory
Map of Oil Sands Leases
Map - PNG Agreements

Evidence

• Oral Witness Evidence
• Oral History Does Make a Difference: William v. British Columbia et al.
• Challenges, Successes and Lessons Learned in the Context of Oral History

Governance

• Strategic Planning And Policy Development
• First Nations Fiscal And Statistical Management Act

Pleadings

• Argument of the Plaintiff - Nov. 30, 2006
• Appendix 1 - Witnesses, Genealogies, Traplines
• Appendix 2 - Select Tsilhqot'in Villages
• Appendix 3 - Tsilhqot'in Land Use Patterns
• Appendix 4 - Tsilhqot'in Wars
• Appendix 5 - Forestry Tables
• Appendix 6 - Maps

• Plaintiff's Reply - March 28, 2007
• Appendix 1A
• Appendix 1B
• Appendix 2
• Appendix 3

Precedents

• Interim Measures Agreement

Property Ownership

• The First Nations Property Ownership Initiative and Alternatives

Taxation

• First Nations' Tax Exemptions
• First Nations Fiscal And Statistical Management Act

Treaty And Other Negotiations

• Developing Your Negotiating Power
• Agreements and Disagreements between Local Governments and First Nations
• Working Together: Improving First Nations and Local Government Coordination and Cooperation in Planning
• Aboriginal Peoples, British Columbia & Canada: The Constitutional Division Of Land Interests & Legislative Powers 

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