Guerin Case
…time, the Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club was looking for land for its golf course. The Club approached the Department of Indian Affairs (DIA) in the hopes of leasing 162…
Aboriginal Rights
…what these specific rights are will have to be determined over time through the court system. A history of Aboriginal rights and the Crown During settlement and colonization, treaties were…
Constitution Act, 1982 Section 35
…been defined over time through Supreme Court cases such as R. v. Calder and R. v. Sparrow. Aboriginal rights have been interpreted to include a range of cultural, social, political,…
Reserves
…that outlawed selling produce or livestock produced on the reserve—to justify reducing reserve lands even further.) By the time government authorities began to create reserves in British Columbia in the…
The Indian Act
…history of oppression and resistance The Indian Act came to be developed over time through separate pieces of colonial legislation regarding Aboriginal peoples across Canada such as the Gradual Civilization…
Indian Homemakers’ Association of British Columbia
…that we didn’t have time for politics. We were still content to let the Indian Agent and the priest and the chief do our talking for us. All this changed…
Aboriginal Identity & the Classroom
…the intent of settling land disputes between Aboriginal peoples and settlers and introducing Aboriginal peoples to colonial ways of life based on private property, while at the same time clearing…
About Sovereignty Performance
…was a need to promote Aboriginal Sovereignty Week here in Newfoundland. It was around the time that many people of aboriginal decent in the area were applying for the “Qalipu…
Oral Traditions
…during certain seasons, at a particular time of day, or in specific places. In the same vein, some stories are meant to be heard only by specific people.6 Such stories…
Cedar
…Time Memorial” SFU Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. https://swswlibrary.com/culture-and-history/a-journey-into-time-immemorial/ “Thunderbird Park” Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria, B.C. https://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/exhibits/tbird-park/main.htm?lang=eng Books & Articles McMillan, Alan D., and Eldon Yellowhorn. First Peoples in…
