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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Department of Indian Affairs"”.
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The transfer of the Northern Affairs (NA) and Indian and Northern Affairs of Canada (INAC) collections of Inuit art, 1985-1992
Between 1954 and 1984, the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development amassed two collections of Inuit art, the Northern Affairs (NA) collection and the Indian and Northern Affairs of Canada (INAC) collection. Combined, they embodied 4,999 works. In 1985, the Department initiated the …
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Maintenant nous te parlons, ne dedaigne pas nous ecouter Petitions et Relation Speciale entre les Premieres Nations et la Couronne au Canada, 1840-1860
This thesis analyzes the concept of the special relationship between First Nations and the Crown through the evolution of political relations between the colonial state and Indigenous communities in the Province of Canada from the 1840s to 1860s. It explores how this special relationship is linked …
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Conflicting discourses in Canadian Aboriginal politics : a case study of the First Nations governance initiative
… Governance Initiative (FNGI), the centre piece of which was a bill to amend the Indian Act. This thesis utilizes the events and discussions that surrounded the preparation of the bill as a case study of contemporary Canadian Aboriginal politics and international debates on Indigenous rights. The …
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Books and Broomsticks: Prairie Indigenous Female Domestic Workers and the Canadian Outing System, 1888-1901
… the Canadian outing system, a direct feature of industrial schools in the prairie west prominent in the late nineteenth century. Seen as an extension of the school’s vocational training, the outing system became an outlet with which the Canadian federal government’s Department of Indian …
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An institutional perspective on management accounting change in the public sector : a case study from Canada
… study conducted at the Saskatchewan regional office of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, a large department of the Government of Canada. Over the course of the study, a sweeping government-wide accounting reform took place entitled the Financial Information Strategy. …
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Assimilation Through Incarceration: the Geographic Imposition of Canadian Law Over Indigenous Peoples
The disproportionate incarceration of indigenous peoples in Canada is far more than a socio-economic legacy of colonialism. The Department of Indian Affairs (DIA) espoused incarceration as a strategic instrument of assimilation. Colonial consciousness could not reconcile evolving indigenous …