Aboriginal Identity & the Classroom
…and institutions operated on the paternalistic and Eurocentric assumption that in order to function in contemporary colonial society, Aboriginal people needed to abandon their own cultures and adopt a settler…
Indian Status
…(For more information on how taxation applies to status Indians, visit the Canadian Revenue Agency’s website here: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/brgnls/menu-eng.html). Who can have Indian Status? There are complex rules governing Indian status,…
Powley Case
…have laid claim to Rupert’s Land and beyond, many Métis populations in the west did not experience any on-the-ground evidence of this authority for generations and continued to function as…
Van der Peet case
…Distinctive Culture Test.” Human Rights Dialogue: “Cultural Rights.” 2.12 (2005). Available online at: https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/publications/archive/dialogue/2_12/section_3/5149 Lambert, Douglas . “Van der Peet and Delgamuukw: Ten Unresolved Issues.” University of British Columbia Law…
Guerin Case
…Constitution. By Tanisha Salomons & Erin Hanson Recommended Resources Supreme Court of Canada, Guerin v. The Queen, [1984] 2 S.C.R. 335. Available online: https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/2495/index.do Musqueam Band. “Musqueam Day 2020.” https://www.musqueam.bc.ca/musqueam-day-2020/…
Aboriginal Rights
…practiced and enjoyed since before European contact. Because each First Nation has historically functioned as a distinct society, there is no one official overarching Indigenous definition of what these rights…
About Nikamowin (Song)
…me to no end. I’m a talker, which seems totally foreign from my upbringing, so banter is a fun place to bounce the inspiration of ideas, thoughts and perspectives. I’m…
The Indian Act
…date on new episodes of RevisionQuest by visiting its official site at http://www.cbc.ca/revisionquest/ The “Potlatch Law” & Section 141 One of the most famous examples of this oppression and subsequent…
The Residential School System
…States. Davin’s recommendation to follow the U.S. example of “aggressive civilization” led to public funding for the residential school system. “If anything is to be done with the Indian, we…
Constitution Express
…the British Parliament could change Canadian law. Patriating the Constitution would give Canada authority to amend its own laws and make it functionally a more independent country, and in October…
