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In the United Kingdom, the term public inquiry, also known as a tribunal of inquiry, refers to either statutory or non-statutory inquiries that have been established either previously by the monarch or by government ministers of the United Kingdom, Scottish, Northern Irish and Welsh governments to investigate either specific, controversial events or policy proposals.
The Indian Department was established in 1755 to oversee relations between the British Empire and the First Nations of North America. The imperial government ceded control of the Indian Department to the Province of Canada in 1860, thus setting the stage for the development of the present-day Department of Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada.
Dabinderjit Singh Sidhu (Punjabi: ਦਬਿੰਦਰਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਸਿੱਧੂ) OBE was a Director at the UK's National Audit Office before he retired early in May 2022 after more than 33 years service, having become the NAO's youngest Director in 2000. [1]
The center’s current activities include academic seminars in American Indian Studies, fellowships for scholars and public programs. The McNickle Center organizes the Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies (NCAIS) and its related programs, which changed its name from the Committee for Institutional Cooperation/Newberry Library American ...
A public inquiry, also known as a tribunal of inquiry, government inquiry, or simply inquiry, is an official review of events or actions ordered by a government body. In many common law countries, such as the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and Canada, such an inquiry differs from a royal commission in that a public inquiry accepts evidence and conducts its hearings in a more public forum ...
"The Indian Boundary Line," American Historical Review (1905) 10#4 pp. 782–791 free in JSTOR; Hatheway, G. G. "The Neutral Indian Barrier State: A Project in British North American Policy, 1715–1815" (PhD dissertation, University of Minnesota, 1957) Ibbotson, Joseph D. "Samuel Kirkland, the Treaty of 1792, and the Indian Barrier State."
The Indian barrier state was a British proposal to establish a Native American buffer state in the portion of the Great Lakes region of North America.It was never created. The idea was to create it west of the Appalachian Mountains, bounded by the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and the Great Lakes.
Although the Board of Indian Commissioners continued to accomplish its goals of fighting disease on reservations, assimilating Native Americans into popular society, and making citizenship available to Native Americans throughout the Progressive Era and well into the 1920s, the Board was terminated by John Collier in 1933, as there was no ...