George Manuel
…of the Neskonlith Indian Band of the Shuswap Nation in British Columbia. In his early life, Manuel attended residential school and worked in the forest industry as a boom boss….
R. v. Guerin Press
The Province, May 8, 1973 The Province, September 16, 1979 The Vancouver Sun, September 19, 1979 The Vancouver Sun, September 20, 1979 The Province, September 24, 1979…
Community & Politics
…and title. We acknowledge that this section is by no means definitive, but instead provides a starting point for those interested in understanding the myriad ways in which Aboriginal peoples…
Governance and Land Claims
…(Land Claims 6,40). At the time of the last session in this series, Tahltan elders opposing Shell Oil’s plans to begin drilling in the Sacred Headwaters area in northern British…
About Sovereignty Performance
…the agreement. I as an educated individual, and at the time in 2009 had a hard time keeping track of what I was reading and writing, as it all blended…
Welcome to Indigenous Foundations
…Indian Residential Schools. On November 1, 2011 the UBC First Nations House of Learning, in collaboration with the Indian Residential School Survivors Society, hosted a day-long event addressing the history…
Enfranchisement
…gaining a university education, for leaving reserves for long periods – for instance, for employment – and, for Aboriginal women, if they married non-Indian men or if their Indian husbands…
About Nicholas Galanin
…Guildhall University, where he received a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts with honors in Jewelry Design and Silversmithing and at Massey University in New Zealand earning a Master’s degree in Indigenous…
Artistic Expressions
…on what has informed their work. Endnotes 1 In Bill Reid and Beyond: Expanding on Modern Native Art, edited by Kern Duffek and Charlotte Townsend-Gault, 2004. p. 285…
Special Projects
…from his childhood in Victoria to the moment when Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau selected him to lead the Inquiry. It provides a glimpse into the early days of the on-going…
