NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Regions: Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Gwich'in Settlement Area, North Slave Region, Qikiqtaaluk Region

Tags: social sciences, governance, land claim, modern treaties

Objective(s): To create an edited volume (a book) on best practices in modern treaty implementation from Indigenous Governments across Canada.

Project Description: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4933. The goal of this project is to create an edited volume (a book) on best practices in modern treaty implementation from Indigenous Governments across Canada. The research team want this volume to be a well researched, accessibly written, and academically rigorous series of case studies of treaty implementation methods and practices relevant to treaty practitioners, policy makers, academics, and Indigenous communities with modern treaties and those negotiating or contemplating treaty negotiation. This will highlights achievements already made and be a resource to Land Claims Agreements Coalition members to generate evidence through the case studies, which will be useful to seek improvements and innovations to treaty implementation in their own organizations or through the intergovernmental process. It will also provide nuanced and insightful case studies of how treaties are implemented by Indigenous partners and how their approaches are shaped and impacted by federal and provincial/territorial government policies and decision making. Research will be based on publicly available information and interviews with Indigenous government employees responsible for visioning, designing, and implementing treaty responsibilities through programs and services. These interviews will then be transcribed, analyzed, and turned into chapters of an edited volume of case studies. Participants will also have an opportunity to draft the chapters as authors or co-authors if they wish. The research team will recruit interviewees using invitation letters. These letters will be sent to the Indigenous Governments to recommend interviewees and for their consent on the research. Participants will have an opportunity to confirm the accuracy of transcriptions, and be invited to draft chapters that are based on the interviews, or work with a research team member who will draft the chapter and return them to the participant for their approval. When the project is finished, participants will receive a copy of the publication, and so will the Indigenous Governments. The research team will also develop a one page summary of the book and each individual draft chapter for promotional purposes on the MTIRP website and for each individual organization. Updates about the book will also be available on the Modern Treaty Implementation Research Project Website, moderntreaties.tlicho.ca The project, the Modern Treaty Implementation Research Project, is partnered with the Land Claims Agreements Coalition (LCAC) and is hosted by Carleton University and Tlicho Government. moderntreaties.tlicho.ca The fieldwork for this study will be conducted from August 12, 2021 to October 31, 2021.