Indian Status
…as other leaders and academics have described the Indian Act as a form of apartheid law.1 Aboriginal peoples in Canada who are classified as “Status Indians” are registered under the…
The Residential School System
…2020. Website. [Date accessed]. Chicago: Hanson, Eric, Daniel P. Games, and Alexa Manuel. “The Residential School System”. Indigenous Foundations. https://indigenousfoundations.web.arts.ubc.ca/residential-school-system-2020/. (accessed Month, day, year). APA: Hanson, E., Gamez, D., &…
Aboriginal Identity & Terminology
…situation. Prior to 1961, for instance, an “Indian” who acquired an education could be forcibly “enfranchised,” becoming a Canadian citizen, but losing status as an “Indian.” Prior to 1985, an…
Métis
…across different communities, to applying to multiple identities that have arisen from diverse historical instances of Aboriginal-European heritage. Métis Identity Métis peoples have developed a rich material culture, which includes…
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
…free of this colonial mindset, not reinforce it. As human rights lawyer James Sa’ke’j Youngblood Henderson observes, “[Member states] worried about the implications of Indigenous rights, refusing to acknowledge the…
Global Actions
…the basis of their continued existence as peoples, in accordance with their own cultural patterns, social institutions and legal systems. The above definition distinguishes Indigenous peoples from the settlers, colonizers,…
Bill C-31
…Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women’s groups to pressure the Canadian government to change the law. This action was catelysed when Sandra Lovelace took her case challenging the Indian Act to the…
Constitution Act, 1982 Section 35
…BC, in which Frank Calder lost his case for Aboriginal title in 1973, may have turned out differently had Section 35 been in place at that time. Borrows also feels…
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…
Gustafsen Lake
…campaigns, and successful efforts to spread misinformation about the Sundancers. The media were strategically excluded from all but official RCMP accounts of events, resulting in highly skewed reporting. Supporters of…
