Global Actions
…other populations who have attempted to undermine Indigenous autonomy. It was also carefully crafted to remove potentially problematic notions of race and blood quantum.1 Some Indigenous leaders and experts argue…
Aboriginal Title
…Available online: https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ubcic/pages/1440/attachments/original/1484861461/12_aboriginalrightspositionpaper1985.pdf?1484861461 —– “Aboriginal Title Implementation.” https://www.ubcic.bc.ca/aboriginal_title_implementation_ubcic_1998 —– “’Certainty:’ Canada’s Struggle to Extinguish Aboriginal Title.” https://www.ubcic.bc.ca/certainty_canada_s_struggle_to_extinguish_aboriginal_title —– “Two World Views in Law.” https://www.ubcic.bc.ca/two_world_views_in_law Endnotes 1 Union of British Columbia…
Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…often hired Indigenous men to deliver fish to the cannery in order to guarantee the labour of thousands of women and girls in the canneries.19 In 1892, only 40 of…
Sparrow Case
…Musqueam Indian Band. “Statement on the passing of Ronald “Bud” Sparrow.” (2020). https://www.musqueam.bc.ca/statement-passing-ron-bud-sparrow/ Endnotes 1 Helloing, Evaleen, “The Legacy of R v Sparrow.” (2020). http://www.thecourt.ca/the-legacy-of-r-v-sparrow/ 2 Peter Kulchyski, Ed. Unjust…
Reserves
…Accessed May 2010. 9 Office of the Auditor General of Canada, “Land Management and Protection on Reserves,” 2009 Fall Report of the Auditor, sec. 6.59. Available online via http://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/English/parl_oag_200911_06_e_33207.html. Accessed…
Marginalization of Aboriginal women
…and children had to move into condemned houses or in with relatives who already were overcrowded. Since the Indian Act gave men sole ownership of property through certificates of possession,…
Powley Case
…original ruling. The Crown then appealed this loss, but the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld the previous two rulings. Finally, the Crown appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada and…
Aboriginal Rights
…the demands, interests, and opinions of the millions of other people who are also members of that single-sovereign community, to which our leaders will have pledged allegiance.4 On the other…
Cedar
…Videos “Bill Reid” – National Film Board of Canada. https://www.nfb.ca/film/bill_reid/ “Importance of Cedar” – SFU Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. https://swswlibrary.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/importance-of-cedar.docx Images and online exhibits “Cedar: A Journey into Time…
Guerin Case
…to find a lawyer who would take on the case, as there was little to no legal or governmental acknowledgement of Aboriginal rights and title at that time.3 The case…
