LibGuides: Aboriginal Law Research Guide: First Nations by-laws, land codes and other

First Nations by-laws, land codes, and other

First Nations Gazette [print] by University of Saskatchewan. Native Law Centre. Indian Taxation Advisory Board (Canada)
Call Number: Law Library Statutes Dig Can Stats-Can KIB4 F47
Publication Date: vol 1 no.1 (1997)- vol 17 no. 4 (2013).
Ceased in print with vol. 17, no. 4 (2013); available online only 2014 - present.
First Nations Gazette [electronic resource]
Call Number: Internet Resource
Publication Date: 1997 - present
The mission of the First Nations Gazette is to provide public notice of First Nation laws, by-laws, land codes, and other First Nation legislation, and to otherwise serve as the authoritative reference for First Nation law in Canada.

Land Codes

The First Nations Land Management Act S.C. 1999 c.24 allows for the enactment of land codes. The Schedule to act is organized by "Names of First Nations" and includes "Coming into Force Dates of Land Codes" Amendments to the Schedule are made by federal Orders-In Council.

The Orders in Council are listed in Woodwards Native Law chapter 22 and found in full text on the Privy Council of Canada Orders in Council database; search by "First Nations Land Management Act".

Orders in Council (Government of Canada)
Provides access to orders in council of the Privy Council from 1990 to present. Full text is available from Nov. 2002 onward

Aboriginal Law in Canada by Jack Woodward
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Publication Date: Looseleaf (1989- )
Ebook available - click on the blue book icon.

CivicInfo BC First Nations Directory
Directory of 207 listings including website urls.

Legal information service by University of Saskatchewan Native Law Centre
Call Number: Law Library KF8201 A3 L45
Publication Date: Report no. 1 ([May 1979])-report no. 24 (1986)
no..1: Band council resolutions and by-laws [1979] Report no. 1
no. 2: Amendments to the Migratory Birds Convention Act and Regulations and their effect on indian hunting rights [1979] Report No. 2
no. 3: Indian veterans' rights [1979] Report No. 3
no. 4 Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation financing of on-reserve housing [1979] Report No. 4
no. 5 Application of traffice laws on Indian reserves [1979] Report No. 5
no. 6 Indian status and membership rights (1980) Report No. 1
no. 7 Legality of suspsnding hunting an fishing charges against treaty and status Indians (1980) Report No. 2
no. 8 Native people and the Canadian Constitution (1980) Report No. 3
no 9 Trespass on Indian reserves (1980) Report No. 4
no. 10 Constitutional entrenchment of Native rights (1980) Report No. 5
no. 11 Indian chld welfare whose responsibility? (1981) Report No. 1
no. 12 Application of matrimonial property legislation on reserves (1981) Report No. 2
no. 13 Wills and estates of Indians (1981) Report No. 3
no. 14 Customs, immigration ad the Jay Treaty (1981) Report No. 4
no. 15 Creditors' rights in Indian real property (1983) Report No. 15
no. 16 Creditors' rights and Indian personal property (1983) Report No. 16
no. 17 Alberta'a Metis settlement associations: a legislative history (1983) Report No. 17
no. 18 Jurisdiction over labour relations on Indian reserves (1983) Report No. 18
no. 19 Liquor offences under the Indian Act (1983) Report No. 19
no. 20 Financial responsibility for Indian education in Treaty areas (1983) Report No. 20
no. 21 Indian child welfare whose responsibility updated 1984 (1985) Report No. 21
no. 22 Trespass on Indian reserves update 1985 (1985) Report No. 22
no. 23 Indian status and band membership updated 1986 (1986) Report No. 23
no. 24 Application of matrimonial property legislation on reserves updated 1986 (1986) Report No. 24