About Tsu Heidei Shugaxtutaan
…attempt to define culture as it unfolds. Native American Art will not be commonly defined as our work moves freely through time. The viewer, collector, or curators’ definition often conveys…
Totem Poles
…in the fish and fur trade with Europeans. During this time, coastal First Nations acquired new tools that enabled them to construct more elaborate poles. Most poles, even though they…
Special Projects
…Mackenzie Valley, to Chicago. The Berger Inquiry broke precedent. For the first time, Aboriginal and environmental organizations were given funding so they could cross-examine oil company experts and call their…
Video Resources
…navigate to them through the menu at your left. Check back as more resources are made available all the time. Oral Narratives of the Klamath Termination Oral Narratives of the…
Klamath Termination
…Oral Narratives of the Klamath Termination: Individual Elders Reflect on Time and Change is a video archive that records the observations of a group of six members of the…
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…
Mapping Tool: Kitsilano Reserve
…In 1869, the colonial government set aside a small Indian reserve at the creek mouth, and in 1877, the government allotted the reserve to the Squamish alone. Over time these…
Land & Rights
…title is frequently mentioned separately. Precedent-setting court cases R v Calder [1973] was the first time the courts acknowledged that Aboriginal title to the land had existed at one point–…
