Sixties Scoop
…This amendment specifically applied to Section 88 of the Indian Act. Pivot, 21 . 3 Liberating our children, 2; Pivot, 21 4 Fournier, Suzanne and Ernie Crey. Stolen from Our…
Métis
…view here. 4 Métis Settlement General Council, Paddle Prarie Métis Settlement Profile. https://msgc.ca/paddle-prairie-metis-settlement/ 5 This figure is of 2008. Alberta First, Paddle Prairie Métis Settlement. https://open.alberta.ca/dataset/d3004449-9668-4d02-bb88-f57d381a6965/resource/7a60ffcb-b3a8-4a5c-baa6-e409309cb8e0/download/2015-08-metissettlementprofile.pdf 6 Dickason, Olive. Canada’s…
Powley Case
R. v. Powley [2003] R. v. Powley was the first major Aboriginal rights case concerning Métis peoples. The Powley decision resulted in “the Powley Test,” which laid out…
Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…blowflies and wasps. 4 Despite government intervention, and changes in technology to fishing by boat with gill nets, the practice of wind-drying continues to this day among some Stó:lō families,…
Ipperwash Crisis
…land, a group of approximately 30 members of the band, including a number of children, began their occupation of the park on September 4, 1995. They planned to peacefully occupy…
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
…2008), 119. 2 United Nations, “History (brief).” https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/unpfii-sessions-2.html 3 Henderson, 70. 4 Ibid. 5 Lightfoot, “Emerging International Indigenous Rights Norms and ‘Over-compliance’ in New Zealand and Canada,” Political Science vol….
Cedar
…between people and plants 3 Nancy J. Turner, Plant Technology of First Peoples in British Columbia (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1998), 71. 4 Ibid. 5 Turner, 68. 6 Hilary Stewart, Cedar…
Totem Poles
…1981), 16. 2 Edward Malin, Totem Poles of the Pacific North Coast (Portland: Timber Press, 1986), 45-51. 3 Halpin, 23. 4 William Yardley, “Recovery Still Incomplete After Valdez Spill,” The…
Marginalization of Aboriginal women
…Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture. Ed. Cheryl Suzack et al. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010, 32. 4 Huhndorf, Shari M. and Cheryl Suzack, “Indigenous Feminism: Theorizing the Issues,” In ed….
Gustafsen Lake
…3 Switlo, 105. 4 Sandra. Lambertus. Wartime Images, Peacetime Wounds: The Media and the Gustafsen Lake Standoff. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press). 2007.38-40, 43. 5 Janice Switlo, personal communication with…
