Totem Poles
…In the early 1990s, the Haisla people of the Kitimat area in B.C. began the process of repatriating a mortuary pole that had been taken away from their community in…
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…
UBC Dialogue: Full Record
…following day’s event Morning Session (Nov 1) Morning Opening Remarks by Speaker Gerry Oleman; Calling of Witnesses Address by UBC President Stephen Toope Dr Wendy Fletcher (Vancouver School of Theology):…
Aboriginal Identity & Terminology
…in the alienation of many people from their communities of ancestral origin. People might well know that they had Indian ancestry, but not know their community background and not be…
Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
…The UBCIC has adopted a firm stance on Aboriginal title to the land, and has consistently opposed the federal government’s Comprehensive Claims Policy as well as the BC Treaty Process,…
The White Paper 1969
…1970. Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs. “Our History”. https://www.ubcic.bc.ca/about The Hawthorn Report Hawthorn, Harry, ed. A Survey of the Contemporary Indians of Canada: Economic, Political, Educational Needs and Policies….
UBC Dialogue: Nov 1, 2011
…the day, participants, who included administrators, faculty, staff, and students from UBC and other institutions, and Aboriginal leaders, school survivors, and community members, heard testimony from scholars, survivors, students, leaders,…
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…
Van der Peet case
…right. The Court’s decision thus went beyond the earlier Sparrow ruling (1990), to define particular Aboriginal rights regarding fishing. The ruling also resulted in what is known today as the…
Constitution Express
…BC Indian Chiefs chartered two trains from Vancouver that eventually carried approximately one thousand people to Ottawa to publicize concerns that Aboriginal rights would be abolished in the proposed Canadian…
