UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
…change of heart this way: New Zealand Read New Zealand’s official statement of support, from April 20, 2010, here. Read New Zealand Parliament’s Question and Answer Period regarding the UNDRIP…
The Residential School System (2009)
…online: http://www.ajic.mb.ca/volume.html 18 Frideres & Gadacz, Aboriginal Peoples in Canada. Toronto: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008. 81. 19 Frideres & Gadacz, 85. 20 First Nations Leadership Council, BC Assembly of First…
The Residential School System
…to “kill the Indian in the child.” On June 11, 2008, the Canadian government issued a formal apology in Parliament for the damage done by the residential school system. In…
The Residential School System
…to “kill the Indian in the child.” On June 11, 2008, the Canadian government issued a formal apology in Parliament for the damage done by the residential school system. In…
Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…at 1,000 pounds per capita; with an immediate pre-contact Stó:lō population of 20,000 to 60,000 people, between 4 million and 12 million salmon would have been consumed annually, and this…
Sixties Scoop
…of First Nations Children and Youth.” First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada, 2004. Available online at: https://fncaringsociety.com/sites/default/files/docs/KeepingThePromise.pdf Fournier, Suzanne and Ernie Crey. Stolen from Our Embrace. Vancouver:…
Global Actions
…Committee on the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People, 2010. Photo by Evan Schneider. (c) 2010 UNPFII. Photo used with permission from UNPFII. In 1982, the U.N. Working Group…
Oral Traditions
…[1997] 3 S.C.R. 1010, par. 13. 20 Ibid ., par. 87. 21 Tsihlqot’in Nation v. British Columbia, 2007 BSCS 1700, par. 177, http://www.courts.gov.bc.ca/Jdb-txt/SC/07/17/2007BCSC1700.pdf 22 Ibid., par. 194. 23 Borrows….
Métis
…University of Alberta Press, 2007. 33-64. In 1872, the Dominion Lands Act was passed, which encouraged settlement in the west by allotting farmland to settlers. The Métis heads of household…
Marginalization of Aboriginal women
…Accessed February 17, 2011. Available online at http://blackcoffeepoet.com/2011/02/16/breaking-the-silence-about-canadas-800-missing-and-murdered-aboriginal-women-interview-with-cree-academic-and-activist-robyn-bourgeois-a-photo-essay-of-the-no-more-silence-rally-feb-14th-201/ 15 Emberley, 61. 16 Emberley, 62. 17 McGrath & Stevenson, 41. 18 Emberley, 61. 19 Razack, 92. 20 Lowman, John. “Violence against…
