We wish to acknowledge this land on which the University of Toronto operates. For thousands of years it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.
The study of Indigenous law is uniquely interdisciplinary. In addition to legal materials, a researcher must draw upon scholarship and research from many disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, history, political science, and from cultural and artistic works in order to effectively understand and address the legal issues. The Bora Laskin Law Library’s Indigenous Perspectives Collection provides access to books and audio-visual materials representing Indigenous perspectives across a number of disciplines. This broad collection allows scholars to work in one library with both the legal materials and the interdisciplinary scholarship that informs and interprets the legal materials.
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"In their only fully collaborative literary work, Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich have written a gripping novel of history, suspense, recovery, and new beginnings.
Nine DVDs with movies chronicling the efforts to explore and map the Arctic from land, air and even under water.
Three DVDs with films chronicling the unique cultures that share the polar region.
Volume 1: Northwest Frontier and North
Volume 2: The Greenlanders
Volume 3: The New North with Farley Mowat"This essay now reviews the political and social controversy that surrounded the pastoral lease issue before, during, and after the High Court's Wik decision.
"Focusing on issues raised by the U.N. Working Group on Indigenous Peoples, this study reveals the obstacles to self-determination for these peoples in all parts of the world.
"This collection of essays is a timely exploration of the progress of Aboriginal rights movements in Canada, Mexico, and the United States.
The A-Z entries in this volume answer the most commonly asked questions about the laws as they affect Native Americans.
"The author explores how tribal governments have worked through the constraints of their eroded territory and sovereignty to provide effective leadership and governance." -- Provided by publisher
"William Beynon was born in 1888 in Victoria to a Welsh father and a Tsimshian mother. He was an accomplished ethnographer and had a long career documenting the traditions of the Tsimshian, Nisga'a, and Gitksan.
"Over the last thirty years Canadian policy on aboriginal issues has come to be dominated by an ideology that sees aboriginal peoples as "nations" entitled to specific rights.
"Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens: A History of Indian-White Relations in Canada is the newly revised third edition by J. R. Miller. A professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan, Miller has made substantial additions to his comprehensive 1989 text.
"Frequently dismissed as a 'nature poet' and an 'Indian Princess' E. Pauline Johnson (1861-1913) was not only an accomplished thinker and writer but a contentious and passionate personality who 'talked back' to Euro-Canadian culture.
"Education is at the heart of the struggle of Aboriginal peoples to regain control over their lives as communities and nations.
"In The Marshall Decision and Native Rights Ken Coates explains the cross-cultural, legal, and political implications of the recent Supreme Court decision on the Donald Marshall case.
"The second novel by renowned Okanagan author Jeannette Armstrong traces the life of a young Native woman on a reserve who is exposed to pesticides while working as a fruit picker in the Okanagan Valley.Whispering in Shadows provides a glimpse into the complexities of the contemporary life and ps
"In these stories, we meet the kind of American Indians we rarely see in literature–the kind who pay their bills, hold down jobs, fall in and out of love.
"The essays in Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision spring from an International Summer Institute held in 1996 on the cultural restoration of oppressed Indigenous peoples.
"Increasingly, Indigenous people are being drawn into global networks. In the long term, cultural isolation is unlikely to be a viable—even if sometimes desired—option, so how can Indigenous people protect and advance their cultural values in the face of pressure from an interconnected world?
"This book brings together eleven contributors who discuss the right of indigenous peoples to self-determination. All authors are recognized experts in the field, some as academics, others as indigenous activists or international lawyers.
"An in-depth exploration of the lives and culture of the Dene.