Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…peoples had already built flourishing economies based on salmon. The one-way spawning migrations of adult salmon to the stretch of river where they were born has always brought a crucial…
The Residential School System (2009)
…online: http://www.ajic.mb.ca/volume.html 18 Frideres & Gadacz, Aboriginal Peoples in Canada. Toronto: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008. 81. 19 Frideres & Gadacz, 85. 20 First Nations Leadership Council, BC Assembly of First…
The Residential School System
…million government plan to aid communities affected by the residential schools. However, some Indigenous people felt the government apology did not go far enough, since it addressed only the effects…
Sixties Scoop
…transracial adoptee.” Feelings of not belonging in either mainstream Euro-Canadian society or in Aboriginal society can also create barriers to reaching socio-economic equity.11 The shift in child welfare policy Several…
Reserves
…effect, it was an effort to extinguish Aboriginal title through administrative and bureaucratic means.”3 Reserve reduction in British Columbia Reserves in British Columbia had barely been established before government officials…
Global Actions
…a larger or more dominant settler population. The word Indigenous was adopted by Aboriginal leaders in the 1970s after the emergence of Indigenous rights movements around the world as a…
Marginalization of Aboriginal women
…country with the goal of assimilating and “civilizing” First Nations peoples based on a European model. These policies had profound effects on Aboriginal women across the country. By outlining these…
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
…Aboriginal organizations’ responses Assembly of First Nations’ response. Inuit Tapriit Kanatami’s response. Native Women’s Association of Canada’s response. Union of BC Indian Chiefs’ response. Indigenous representatives from Canada had been…
Bands
…off reserve lands due to lack of employment, housing and adequate programs and services. While today bands have increasing control of and responsibility for their internal affairs, the Minister of…