Government documents & law

Indian Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. I-5) Justice Canada - Laws

"The Indian Act is a Canadian federal law that governs in matters pertaining to Indian status, bands, and Indian reserves." (The Indian Act, UBC Indigenous Foundations)

Further reading about the Indian Act:

UBC Indigenous Foundations. The Indian Act
âpihtawikosisân (2011). Indigenous Issues 101: Got Status? Indian Status in Canada, sort of explained.
Cannon, M.J. (2019). Men, masculinity, and the Indian Act. UBC Press (print book)
Gehl, L. (2021). Gehl v. Canada: challenging sex discrimination in the Indian Act. University of Regina Press. (ebook)
Joseph, R. P. C. (2018). 21 things you may not know about the Indian Act. Vancouver: Page Two Books. (print book)
Kelm, M. & K.D. Smith (2018). Talking back to the Indian Act: critical readings in setter colonial histories. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (print book)
Milloy, J. (2008). Indian Act Colonialism: A Century of Dishonour, 1869-1969. Research Paper for the National Centre for First Nations Governance. (ebook)
Palmater, P. D. (2020). Warrior Life: Indigenous resistance & resurgence. Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing. (print book)
Reynolds, J. (2018). Aboriginal Peoples and the law: a critical introduction. Vancouver: Purich Books. (print book)

RCAP: Report on the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (1996) - Government of Canada

The Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) concerns government policy with respect to the original historical nations of this country. Those nations are important to Canada, and how Canada relates to them defines in large measure its sense of justice and its image in its own eyes and before the world.

Graham, K.A. & Newhouse, D. (2021). Sharing the land, sharing a future [The Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future Forum Marking the Twentieth Anniversary of RCAP]. University of Manitoba Press. (print book)

UNDRIP: United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007) - UN General Assembly Resolution

The Declaration is the most comprehensive international instrument on the rights of indigenous peoples. It establishes a universal framework of minimum standards for the survival, dignity and well-being of the indigenous peoples of the world and it elaborates on existing human rights standards and fundamental freedoms as they apply to the specific situation of indigenous peoples.

Barrows, J., Chartland, L., Fitzgerlad, O., Schwartz, R. (eds). (2019). Braiding legal orders: implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Waterloo, ON: Centre for International Governance Innovation. (print book)
Borrows, L. (2018). Otter's journey through Indigenous language and law. Vancouver: UBC Press. (print book)
Hartley, J., Joffe, P., & Preston, J. (eds). (2010). Realizing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: triumph, hope, and action. Saskatoon: Purich Publishling. (print book)
Imai, S. (2019). Annotated Aboriginal law: The Constitution, Legislation, Treaties and Supreme of Canada and Case Summaries. Toronto: Thomson Reuters. (print book)
Krasowski, S. (2019). No surrender: the land remains Indigenous. Unviersity of Regina Press. (print book)
Lennox, C., & Short, D. (eds). (2016). Handbook of Indigenous peoples rights. New York: Routledge. (print book)
Lightfoot, S. (2016). Global Indigenous politics: a subtle revolution. New York: Routledge. (print book)
Schweitzer, D. & Gareau, P.L. (Eds). (2021). Honouring the Declaration: church commitments to reconciliation and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Regina: University of Regina Press. (ebook and print).
United Nations. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. (2019). State of the world's Indigenous peoples: implementing the United Nations Declaraion on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. (print book)

Canada's Residential Schools: Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (2015) - TRC