Making Treaties Work for Future Generations: Implementation Research Planning Conference

Thank you to everyone who made the Making Treaties Work conference a complete success. In the end, we had over 170 participants and will be moving forward with a Letter of Intent submission to SSHRC.

Please contact Patti Black, LCAC Coordinator (black@consilium.ca) if you are interested in being part of our SSHRC Planning Group and this proposal submission.

DAY 1: MONDAY DECEMBER 7, 2015
PLENARY: The Purpose and Vision of Land Claim and Self Government Agreements
CONCURRENT SESSIONS: Academic Views on Modern Treaty Implementation Presentation: Modern Treaties by Martin Papillon Northern Claims Boards by Graham White
CONCURRENT SESSIONS: Legal Perspectives Presentation: Land Claim Arbitration Panels and Treaty Interpretation by Larry Chartand
CONCURRENT SESSIONS: Implementation Overviews and Case Studies Presentation: Invialuit Claim (IFA) – Evaluations, Research and Social, Cultural and Economic Indicators and Monitoring by Bob Simpson Gains and Losses in Canada’s Modern Treaties: A Proposal for a Regular Scholarly Update to Indigenous Communities (potentials and pitfalls) by Derek Rasmussen
CONCURRENT SESSIONS: Wellness, Capacity Building & Renewals Presentation: The Gwich’in Internship Project by Norman Snowshoe Community Wellness by Diane Strand CTFN Fiscal Renewal by Matt Mehaffey
CONCURRENT SESSIONS: Co-Management, Wildlife & Land Use Planning Presentation: Making Treaties Work for Future Generations by Paul Irnguat
OPEN SPACE: Research Resources in our Nations
DAY 2: TUESDAY DECEMBER 8, 2015
PLENARY: Alaskan Implementation Issues and related Research Areas Presentation: Making the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (1971) Work for Future generations by Tom Thornton
OPEN SPACE SESSION: Research Ideas
SELF SORTED CONCURRENT SESSIONS: Idea Development
PLENARY: Funding Opportunities and Research Partnerships Presentation: Successful SSHRC Partnership Grant Writing by Ghislain Otis Partnership Funding Opportunities and Support to Aboriginal Research by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada by Gail Zboch
CONCURRENT SESSIONS: Research Access & Benefit Sharing Agreements Presentations: Access and Benefit Sharing in the Nunavut Settlement Area by Sharon Edmunds-Potvin Access and Benefit Sharing and the Nagoya Protocol by Nashina Shariff Traditional Medical Knowledge by Paul Linton
CONCURRENT SESSIONS: Indicators, Measurement and Evaluation Presentations: Monitoring systems for socio-economic data: ReSDA, the IRC, and the Inuvialuit Indicators Project by Chris Southcott Aboriginal Data at Statistics Canada by Tim Leonard and Annie Turner

DAY 1: MONDAY DECEMBER 7, 2015

PLENARY: The Purpose and Vision of Land Claim and Self Government Agreements

CONCURRENT SESSIONS: Academic Views on Modern Treaty Implementation

Presentation:
Modern Treaties by Martin Papillon
Northern Claims Boards by Graham White

CONCURRENT SESSIONS: Legal Perspectives

Presentation:
Land Claim Arbitration Panels and Treaty Interpretation by Larry Chartand

CONCURRENT SESSIONS: Implementation Overviews and Case Studies

Presentation:
Invialuit Claim (IFA) – Evaluations, Research and Social, Cultural and Economic Indicators and Monitoring by Bob Simpson
Gains and Losses in Canada’s Modern Treaties: A Proposal for a Regular Scholarly Update to Indigenous Communities (potentials and pitfalls) by Derek Rasmussen

CONCURRENT SESSIONS: Wellness, Capacity Building & Renewals

Presentation:
The Gwich’in Internship Project by Norman Snowshoe
Community Wellness by Diane Strand
CTFN Fiscal Renewal by Matt Mehaffey

CONCURRENT SESSIONS: Co-Management, Wildlife & Land Use Planning

Presentation:
Making Treaties Work for Future Generations by Paul Irnguat