British Columbia after the Delgamuukw Decision: Land Claims and Other Processes

2002 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gurston Dacks
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Land Claims

Reaching Just Settlements: Land Claims in British Columbia

1992 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
J. R. Miller ◽  
Frank Cassidy
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Land Claims

Land claims process and its potential impact on wood supply

1997 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher A. Lee ◽  
Phil Symington
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Land Claims ◽  
Timber Supply ◽  
Wood Supply ◽  
Potential Impact

The settlement of Land Claims in British Columbia could entail the negotiation of forestry interests in many areas of the province. This paper looks at Land Claims settlements in other jurisdictions and at the Nisga'a Agreement in Principle in B.C. to see how these examples have or will affect wood supply in their locations. Other factors, such as timber supply in general, are also considered.

Double Identities: Aboriginal Policy Agencies in Ontario and British Columbia

2001 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Malloy
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Land Claims ◽  
Aboriginal Groups ◽  
Policy Communities

This article argues that provincial government units for Aboriginal affairs in Ontario and British Columbia have ''double identities'' stemming from contradictory mandates anchored in two different policy communities. Aboriginal policy agencies act as Crown negotiators with Aboriginal nations over land claims and self-government, but are also responsible for co-ordinating government policies affecting Aboriginals. Consequently, they interact with two different policy communities. One involves economic and resource ministries, which engage in a pressure pluralist relationship with Aboriginal groups. The second involves social policy ministries who engage in more clientele pluralist relationships with Aboriginals. Consequently, Aboriginal policy agencies display different identities and play different and sometimes contradictory roles. These ''double identities'' illustrate the complexity and contradictions of provincial-Aboriginal relations in Canada.

scholarly journals Framing Indigenous–Settler Relations within British Columbia's Modern Treaty Context: A Discourse Analysis of the Maa-nulth Treaty in Mainstream Media

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Sloan Morgan ◽  
Heather Castleden
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Land Claims ◽  
Social Construction Of Reality ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Colonial Legacy ◽  
Integral Role

Media plays an integral role in (re)producing our social construction of reality. When viewed in light of Canada’s colonial legacy, media’s power has undoubtedly been implicated in circumscribing Indigenous peoples and Indigenous–settler relations. Employing a discourse analysis of mainstream media covering the recent (2011) implementation of a comprehensive land claims agreement in British Columbia, this study investigates how media has framed contemporary Indigenous–settler relations within the Canadian state. Findings indicate that mainstream media predominantly relies on stereotypes of Indigenous peoples and tends to neglect historical and current political complexities, thereby perpetuating stagnant Indigenous–settler relations. Concluding with empirically derived recommendations, this article points to education reform to create more robust mainstream media able to address stagnated (re)constructions of Indigenous–settler relations.

scholarly journals Regional Disparity in Modern First Nations’ Treaty-Making

SURG Journal ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-48
Author(s):  
Anthony Gatensby
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Regional Disparity ◽  
Land Claims ◽  
Canadian Province ◽  
Land Mass ◽  
Do So

First Nations’ self-government treaties have arisen solely in British Columbia, to the exclusion of every other Canadian province. At first glance, the amount of historical treaties enacted in what is now Ontario prevents new claims from being pursued. Therefore, the assumption exists that because the majority of British Columbia’s land mass was never formally ceded to the Crown, the opportunity to do so has now presented itself. However, identifying the amount of historical treaties as the sole influence over the contemporary process of land claims is an assumption that excludes the importance of regional circumstances in emerging self-government treaties. Therefore, the intention of this paper is to establish that this assumption is inadequate, and that regionalism better explains the historical, political, legal, and geographical reasons why First Nations’ self-government has surfaced exclusively in BC.

Politics and Pragmatics: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Native Issues in CanadaAFTER NATIVE CLAIMS? THE IMPLICATIONS OF COMPREHENSIVE CLAIMS SETTLEMENTS FOR NATURAL RESOURCES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. Frank Cassidy and Norman Dale. Lantzville, BC and Halifax, NS: Oolichan Books and The Institute for Research on Public Policy, 1988.INDIAN GOVERNMENT: ITS MEANING IN PRACTICE. Frank Cassidy and Robert L. Bish. Lantzville, BC and Halifax, NS: Oolichan Books and The Institute for Research on Public Policy, 1989.REACHING JUST SETTLEMENTS: LAND CLAIMS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. Ed. Frank Cassidy. Lantzville, BC and Halifax, NS: Oolichan Books and The Institute for Research on Public Policy, 1991.GOVERNMENTS IN CONFLICT? PROVINCES AND INDIAN NATIONS IN CANADA. Ed. J. Anthony Long and Menno boldt. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988.ABORIGINAL WATER RIGHTS IN CANADA: A STUDY OF ABORIGINAL TITLE TO WATER AND INDIAN WATER RIGHTS. Richard H. Bartlett. Calgary: Canadian Institute of Resources Law, 1988.HEALTH CARE AND CULTURAL CHANGE: THE INDIAN EXPERIENCE IN THE CENTRAL SUBARCTIC. T. Kue Young. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988.

1993 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 202-211
Author(s):  
S. Barry Cottam
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Water Rights ◽  
Land Claims ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Indian Water ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Indian Experience ◽  
Indian Nations

scholarly journals Delgamuukw v. British Columbia: When Aboriginal Voices of Law Were Finally Heard

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-36
Author(s):  
Reid Gomme
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Supreme Court Of Canada ◽  
Land Claims ◽  
Bad Faith ◽  
Canadian Government ◽  
Land Claim ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Indigenous Land

This essay analyzes the enduring impact of the case Delgamuukw v. British Columbia (1997), in which the Supreme Court of Canada overturned the original ruling by the Supreme Court of British Columbia in 1997 upon appeal by members of the Gitskan and Wet’suwet’en peoples representing the Delgamuukw side. The case set strengthened precedent in Canada’s legal system for the use of indigenous oral history as acceptable evidence in identifying first nations land claims based on their ancestral accounts. As has been shown in more recent indigenous land claims cases such as Tsilhqot’in v. British Columbia (2014), this precedent is finally allowing some first nations communities a legal tool recognized strongly enough within Canadian legal systems, historically entrenched in European common and civil law approaches of justifying evidence, to gain more just land claims settlements. While actions by some levels of Canadian government, such as the British Columbian Liberal government’s 2001 popular referendum on the merits of indigenous land claims, have shown bad faith for the prospects of nation to nation land claim settlement negotiation, the pressure exerted on all levels of Canadian government by decisions such as Delgamuukw and Tsilhqot’in show promise in forcing a shift to more just land claim settlements in future disputes.

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