Indian Status
…Recommended resources Indian and Northern Affairs Canada: “Status”: http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/br/is/index-eng.asp Gilbert, Larry. Entitlement to Indian Status and Membership Codes in Canada. Scarborough: Carswell, 1996. Lawrence, Bonita. “Real” Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood…
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
…62, no. 1 (2010): 96. 6 Sheryl Lightfoot, “A Sea Change on the U.N. Declaration—Or Is It?” Indian Country Today, May 3, 2010. http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/opinion/92499529.html 7 Carwyn Jones, “New Zealand’s Support…
Métis
…or unrecognized Métis peoples has been and will continue to be a major area of academic, legal, and political inquiry in Canada. And as scholars and other recognized experts revisit…
Aboriginal Rights
…Calder Case, and the Future of Indigenous Rights. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007). Henderson, James Sákéj Youngblood. “Postcolonial Ledger Drawing.” In Marie Battiste, ed., Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision. (Vancouver: UBC…
Bill C-31
…the Indian Act status provisions. Lovelace joined the political action in the early 1970s, and took her case to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1974. When the Supreme Court…
Sixties Scoop
…INAC and the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) conducted a policy review of INAC’s FNCFS initiative and came up with 17 recommendations for improvements. A May 2008 report from the…
Aboriginal Title
…Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007. Foster, Hamar, “Letting Go The Bone: The Idea of Indian Title in British Columbia, 1849-1927,” in Foster and McLaren, eds., Essays in the History of Canadian…
Gustafsen Lake
…Vancouver Sun, 12 September 1995, A1. As quoted in Lambertus, 112. 19 Lambertus, 109. 20 Switlo, personal communication. 21 Switlo, personal communication. 22 As quoted by Mofino, Rick. “U.S. court…
Oral Traditions
…Us,” in Be of Good Mind: Essays on the Coast Salish, ed. Bruce Granville Miller (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007), 82. 4 Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson, eds., The Oral History…
Totem Poles
…a pole Carving a totem pole requires not only artistic skill, but an intimate understanding of cultural histories and forest ecology. Most totem poles are made from Western red cedar,…