Index

A

alcohol 22–3

Ashunipi Corporation 1, 2, 230–3, 238, 242, 323

assimilation 4, 5, 7, 293, 314, 323

B

Band Council 2, 28, 42–5, 155, 199, 294–5

Bill C-262 158–9 see also UNDRIP

Bill C-15 158, 160–1 see also UNDRIP

Bourassa, Robert 166–8, 180

C

Calder 104, 120, 124, 141, 174, 181, 201, 202, 210, 303, 320

Caniapiscau

region 19, 172, 228

Lake 166

Reservoir 192, 221, 222

caribou 18, 23, 31–2, 41, 57, 60, 61, 192, 225, 227, 269, 272, 273

Citizens Plus 141, 289–93, 319–21

clans 45–7

Comprehensive Land Claims Process 147, 148, 180, 196, 201–6, 214, 215, 223, 233, 241, 242, 243–4, 248, 260, 272, 273–5, 290, 313

Conseil Attikamekw Montagnais, CAM, 28, 58–61, 194, 223–30, 236, 242, 323

Constitution Act 1982, s35(1) 115 121–3, 147, 151, 157, 259, 324

consultation 133, 134, 135–7, 147, 150, 151, 155, 247, 250–1

Cree Naskapi Act 189, 197

D

Delgamuukw 2,4, 6, 133–4, 142, 143, 172, 202, 241, 242, 250, 299

Diamond, Billy 185, 191, 193, 194

discovery, doctrine of 119

E

education 22, 36–9, 48, 51, 63–9, 81

employment 39–40

epidemics 94

extinguishment 4, 42, 75, 204, 211–15, 236, 322

F

fiduciary 109–10, 210–11

duty 3, 4, 5, 6, 60, 103, 115, 128, 129, 134, 139–41, 150, 152, 157, 262–4, 320, 321, 324

personal duty 107–11

relationship 101–4, 108

sui generis nature of 124–30

First Nations Land Management Act 1999 296–7, 313

First Nations Property Ownership Act 298, 310

Free and Prior Informed Consent (FPIC) 6, 97, 133, 145, 154–5, 150, 161, 242, 264, 268

fur trade 20, 61–3, 113, 228

G

game wardens 2, 3, 30, 31, 55–61, 238, 270

genocide 70, 309, 326

Grassy Narrows 149–51

Guerin 107, 109, 110, 121, 124–6, 129, 142, 157

H

Hawthorn Report 290, 319

health 35–6, 81

historic trauma 70–5

Honour of the Crown 135–8, 157, 248, 250, 270, 325

Hudson Bay Company (HBC) 61–3, 72, 163, 165, 173–5, 181, 228

hunting 19, 20, 22–3, 24, 31, 50, 51, 94, 117, 192–3, 222, 244

Hydro Quebec 2, 47, 166, 167, 177, 179, 189, 191, 196, 223, 277

I

Impacts and Benefits Agreements (IBAs) 244, 245–6, 249, 253, 254–8, 290, 291

iron mines 270, 271

indemnity and release 251–2, 257

Indian Acts 45, 80, 103–5, 125, 126, 127, 207, 296, 297, 304, 308, 313

Indian Agent 3, 5, 23, 44

Indian Residential Schools (IRS), 3, 5, 43, 49, 63–70, 299–300

apology 7, 66–71

Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) 7, 64, 299, 325

indigenous populations 87, 92

Innu beliefs 49–52

Innu Nation Labrador 242, 247, 251, 258–9, 279

Innu Nation Quebec 259

Iron Ore Company (IOC) 17, 19, 20, 32, 229, 271

closure of 27

site clearance 30 42

work at 23–4

J

James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement 4, 31, 46, 139, 180, 185–8, 191–6, 201, 223, 230, 232, 253, 283, 324

Development Corporation 173, 176–9, 186

hydro-electric project 2, 165–9, 171–82, 221, 171

see also North Eastern Quebec Agreement, Paix des Braves

K

Kawawachikamach 189, 195

L

Labrador Iron Mines 46, 270

Law of 1912 172–5, 181

Little Salmon/Carmacks 137–40, 154, 251

Lower Churchill Falls 20, 61, 244–5, 248, 253, 273, 281, 283, 325

M

Malouf, Judge Albert 165, 323

Judgment 171–82

Appeal 179, 181, 320

Marshall Judgments 119–20

methyl mercury 191–2, 222, 252, 278–81

Mushua Innu see Naskapi

Muskrat Falls 214, 244, 245, 249, 262, 277–85, 326

N

Nalcor 245, 249, 256–7, 263, 279, 280, 281–5

Naskapi, Mushuau Innu 3, 20–1, 28, 29, 45, 46, 188–9, 195, 223, 229, 232, 236, 237, 244, 324

New Dawn Agreement (Tshash Petapen) 1, 2, 7, 8, 19, 31, 61, 206, 213, 236, 241–4, 269, 273, 280, 324, 325

New Millennium Capital Mining Co. 242

Niagara, Treaty of 4, 96, 99, 314, 321–3

Nisga’a Treaty 209–10

Nation 298

Nitassinan 18, 172, 227

North East Quebec Agreement 46, 189, 195

O

Oka Crisis 202, 208, 309

O’Reilly, James 168, 181, 182, 194

P

Paix des Braves 196–9

Q

Quebec, North Shore & Labrador Railway (Tshiuetin) 17, 19, 270

R

racism 77–82

reconciliation 135, 146, 156, 161, 212, 250, 281, 325

resilience 47–9

Rio Tinto 271

Royal Proclamation 1763 3, 4, 5, 95–104, 111, 115, 119–21, 122, 124, 152, 174, 181, 249, 292, 293, 297, 301, 304, 320–2

S

Saganash, Romeo 159, 197, 237

Saint Catherine’s Milling 120, 129, 325

Sparrow 2, 7–8, 110, 121–3, 128, 142, 147, 203, 324

Speck, Frank G 226, 227

Specific Claims Process 207–9

Strategic Alliance 2, 233, 236, 242, 247, 251, 259, 267, 270, 271, 323, 325

T

Tata Steel 270

terra nullius 89, 95, 144, 293, 325

Tshakapesh Institute 27, 222–6, 324

Tshash Petapen see New Dawn Agreement

Tsilhqot’in 7, 95, 140, 149, 205, 206, 237, 248, 258–60, 271, 272, 274, 294, 323

Treaties

Modern 138, 140, 304

Numbered 114, 115–18, 320

Robinson 114

U

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) 7, 8, 75, 80, 97, 146, 152–61, 206, 213, 215, 249, 251, 259, 260, 296, 305, 321, 324, 325, 326 see also Bill C-262, Bill C-15

unjust enrichment 111

Upper Churchill Falls 173, 241

Redress Agreement 256–7

V

Voisey’s Bay nickel mines 241, 246, 261, 269

W

wampum 99–101, 111, 289–93, 297, 304, 305, 314, 319–21

White Paper 1969 207, 294, 295, 298, 303–6

Y

youth 37, 40–2, 48 see also education