Global Actions
…Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and Other States.10 Delegates of the Indigenous organizations represent U.N.-designated socio-cultural regions that seek to achieve broad representation of Indigenous peoples: Africa; Asia; Central and South…
Bands
…According to the Indian Act, a band may have one elected chief and one elected councilor for every 100 band members, with a minimum of two councilors required per band….
Métis
…acts as treasonable and wanted him executed. Riel fled to the United States. Despite these setbacks, the Métis provisional government won federal approval of the Manitoba Act, which took effect…
Sixties Scoop
…was not until 1980 that the Child, Family and Community Services Act required social workers to notify the band council if an Aboriginal child were removed from the community.5 An…
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
…member states worried that accepting the UNDRIP as drafted would undermine their own political autonomy. Of particular concern were the articles affirming Indigenous peoples’ right to self-determination. However, many Indigenous…
Aboriginal Rights
…relationship. While each treaty differed, many historical treaties guaranteed that Aboriginal peoples would receive certain payments and rights, such as a right to hunt or fish, and rights to education….
Cedar
…bark burned slowly, providing excellent tinder for matches and torches. Cedar wood is strong, lightweight, and straight-grained, so it is easy to split and carve, and made into totem poles,…
Aboriginal Title
…early twentieth centuries, Crown representatives and leaders of Aboriginal communities signed treaties throughout most of Canada in an effort to resolve issues of outstanding Aboriginal title. These treaties set out…
Totem Poles
…Essays in Celebration of the Twenty-Fifth American Indian Workshop, eds. Barbara Saunders and Lea Zuyderhoudt (New York: Cornell University Press, 2004), 80. 10 Halpin, 35. 11 Vickers, 60. 12 Halpin,…