Ipperwash Crisis
…for treatment, they were stopped and arrested. George died in the early hours of September 7th. It took 8 years before a public inquiry into the events leading up to…
Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
…Chiefs‘ Council. Each member of the Executive Committee serves a term of three years.3 The UBCIC holds an Annual General Meeting (AGM) every year in which each member band is…
Aboriginal Identity & the Classroom
…in the face of massive opposition, but its effects continue to be felt as aspects of the White Paper continue to inform federal policy and legislation towards Aboriginal people and…
Gustafsen Lake
…Land of our Ancestors, seek a peaceful resolution to a crisis which has been going on for 139 years.” You can read the press release here: http://sisis.nativeweb.org/gustlake/aug2495.html In response, the…
Aboriginal Rights
…actions Aboriginal peoples took in their fight to have their rights recognized. However, many non-Aboriginal politicians did not consider the question of Aboriginal rights to be a government priority and…
Aboriginal Title
…particular native interpretation of title.”4 What does Aboriginal Title Mean for Private Property Interests? Issues of outstanding Aboriginal title does not mean that private property will be expropriated, or that…
The Indian Act
…began organizing to battle the discriminatory legislation. In 1979, Jeanette Corbière Lavalle and Yvonne Bedard took the Canadian government to court, claiming that Section 12 of The Indian Act violated…
Marginalization of Aboriginal women
…legal authority to monitor and control their Indian charges. Any sexual relations that did not conform to monogamy in marriage were seen as un-civilized and counter to the government’s civilizing…
Oral Traditions
…to be told exactly the same way—what is fundamental is whether or not they carry the same message. Oral tradition is, therefore, a collective enterprise. A narrator does not generally…
Van der Peet case
…the Court of Appeal. In 1996, the Supreme Court upheld the Court of Appeal’s finding, ruling that while fishing constitutes an Aboriginal right, the sale of such fish does not….