Created for the Ontario Native Studies courses (NDA3M, NBE3C, NBE3U, NDW4M), this research assignment is ideal for independent and/or distance learning. Students are given a choice of topics relating to land dispute issues affecting Canada's Aboriginal populations, including fracking, fishing rights, oil sands, and the Ring of Fire. Curriculum expectations met by this assignment for NDA3M are attached, as well as a rubric for easy marking, but it is easily adaptable for the NBE curriculum. Inclu