INST 470: Leadership of Indigenous Institutions and Organizations (Revision C2) Report a Broken Link

This course introduces the historical and contemporary issues surrounding the development and re-development of Indigenous communities in Canada with a pragmatic emphasis on the operating factors that enable and define Indigenous leadership. 

Unit 1


There are some supplementary resources after the Unit 10 readings.
Required Readings

Magnet, J. (2003). Who are the Aboriginal people of Canada? In Dorey, D.A., & Magnet, J.E. (Eds.). Aboriginal rights litigation (pp. 23–91). Markham, ON: LexisNexis Butterworths.

Unit 2


Required Readings

Read pages 11–32, 220–224. 
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Unit 3


Required Readings

Unit 4


Required Readings

Chartrand, L. (2003). The Aboriginal peoples’ movement and its critics. In  Dorey, D.A., &  Magnet, J.E. (Eds.), Aboriginal rights litigation (pp. 453–474). Markham, ON: LexisNexis Butterworths.

Read pp. 

Unit 5


Required Readings

Read pp. 

Indigenous Network on Economies and Trade, Nishnawbe Aski Nation, House of Smayusta, Pilalt Nation, Sutikalh & Skwelkwek’welt Protection Centre. (2005). Independent Indigenous submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee on Canada’s fifth periodic report, October 2005. 

Unit 6


Required Readings

Loxley, J. (2002). Sustainable urban economic development: An Aboriginal perspective. Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, 3(1), 29–32.

Read pp. 97102.

Royal Bank of Canada website: http://www.rbcroyalbank.com/

Unit 7


Required Readings

Suncor Energy website: http://www.suncor.com/en-CA/sustainability/community-consultation/aboriginal-relations

Unit 8


Required Readings

Dorey, D. (2003). The future of off-reserve Aboriginal peoples. In Dorey, D. A., &  Magnet, J. E. (Eds.). Aboriginal rights litigation (pp. 11–21). Markham, ON: Lexis Nexis Butterworths.

Portal

Unit 9


Required Readings

Unit 10


Required Readings

Note: In this article, the acronym CBD refers to the Convention on Biodiversity, FAO is the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, and the MGD are the Millennium Development Goals.

Supplementary Resources


This is a long-standing resource link site operated by a full-time attorney in Toronto. It is a well-run site that is updated regularly and has hundreds of important links to Indigenous organizations around the world.

A valuable comparative portal that provides numerous examples of multi-disciplinary field work. You may wish to bookmark this site as it will be a useful resource in several other units as well. It suffers only from a lack of Canadian content, however, there are at least three useful Canadian-based papers available.

The online edition of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples is a must for book marking. Students should familiarize themselves with this document as it contains important statistical data that can be applied in this and other courses.

The International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) is an organization of Indigenous Peoples from North, Central, South America, the Caribbean and the Pacific working for the Sovereignty and Self Determination of Indigenous Peoples and the recognition and protection of Indigenous Rights, Treaties, Traditional Cultures and Sacred Lands.