Special Reports and Features

The research featured here considers key questions of Indigenous governance and offers substantive engagement, critiques and/or alternatives to settler colonialism in Canada today.

From Risk to Resilience: Indigenous Alternatives to Climate Risk Assessment in Canada

Red Papers

Yellowhead Institute Red Papers follow a tradition of agenda-making reports by Indigenous people that contribute to important conversations within and outside our communities.

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2024

September 2024

From Risk to Resilience: Indigenous Alternatives to Climate Risk Assessment in Canada

July 2024

Twenty-Five Years of Gladue: Indigenous 'Over-Incarceratio' & the Failure of the Criminal Justice System on the Grand River

2023

December 2023

Calls to Action Accountability: A 2023 Status Update on Reconciliation

SEPTEMBER 2023

Data Colonialism in Canada's Chemical Valley: Aamjiwnaang First Nation and the Failure of the Pollution Notification System

MAY 2023

Bad Forecast: The Illusion of Indigenous Inclusion and Representation in Climate Adaptation Plans in Canada

APRIL 2023

Indigenous Food Sovereignty in Ontario: A Study of Exclusion at the Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Rural Affairs

January 2023

Indigenous Land-Based Education in Theory & Practice

2022

Calls to Action Accountability:
A 2022 Status Update on Reconciliation

Between Membership & Belonging:
Life Under Section 10 of the Indian Act

Redwashing Extraction: Indigenous Relations at Canada’s Big Five Banks

May 2022

Treaty Interpretation in the Age of Restoule

2021

Cash Back:
A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper

Special Feature

December 2020 - May 2021

Northern Perspectives: Jane Glassco Fellowship Interviews

The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Canada: Lessons from B.C.

Call to Action Accountability: A 2021 Status Update on Reconciliation

2020

Covid-19, the Numbered Treaties & the Politics of Life

A Culture of Exploitation: “Reconciliation” and the Institutions of Canadian Art

Call to Action Accountability: A 2020 Status Update on Reconciliation

2019

Special Reports

An Act Respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis Children, Youth and Families: The Promise and Pitfalls of C-92 & Does Bill C-92 Make the Grade?

The Rise of the First Nations Land Management Regime in Canada: A Critical Analysis

Land Back:
A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper

2018

Canada’s Emerging Indigenous Rights Framework: A Critical Analysis

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A Robinson Huron Treaty Settlement Proposal to Save Anishinaabemowin

April 16, 2024

Reflections on Economy, Racism & Solidarity in Iqaluit

March 19, 2024

Resistance & Sovereignty at Grassy Narrows First Nation

March 7, 2024

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