Royal Proclamation, 1763
…our Royal Will and Pleasure, that no Governor or Commander in Chief in any of our Colonies of Quebec, East Florida. or West Florida, do presume, upon any Pretence whatever,…
The White Paper 1969
…citizens Provide funding for economic development Appoint a commissioner to address outstanding land claims and gradually terminate existing treaties What led to the white paper? By the 1960s, the federal…
Cedar
…a forest utilization site containing a CMT created prior to 1846 is protected by law.10 Today, Aboriginal peoples continue to create new CMTs as part of their cultural and economic…
Terminology
…adversely affected by incursions by industrial economies, displacement, and settlement of their traditional territories by others. For more on how this term was developed, please see our section on global…
Sparrow Case
…treaty rights are hereby recognized and affirmed” in Section 35. Section 35 had been added to the Constitution in 1982 to protect Aboriginal rights. However, those rights had yet to…
Constitution Express
…Canadian government agreed to specifically recognize Aboriginal rights within the new constitution. The Outcome of the Constitution Express – Section 35 is added By late January 1982, and after extended…
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…
Government Policy
…refers to an extensive school system set up by the Canadian government and administered by churches that purported to educate Aboriginal children by removing them from their families and home…
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…
Land & Rights
…about as Okanagan people is how those systems should inform us, in terms of our interactions and the principles that we need to think about and adhere to. In the…
