The Residential School System
…administered by churches that had the nominal objective of educating Indigenous children but also the more damaging and equally explicit objectives of indoctrinating them into Euro-Canadian and Christian ways of…
The Residential School System (2009)
…the Canadian government and administered by churches that had the nominal objective of educating Aboriginal children but also the more damaging and equally explicit objectives of indoctrinating them into Euro-Canadian…
Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…the Aboriginal food fishery large mesh drift nets had been approved for use in limited weekend openings. Stó:lō Tribal Council spokesman Ernie Crey voiced the serious concerns of the Stó:lō…
Marginalization of Aboriginal women
…A Brief History of the Marginalization of Aboriginal Women in Canada Aboriginal women in Canada frequently experience challenges and discrimination that are not necessarily shared by non-Aboriginal women, nor…
Oral Traditions
…complementary. Each method has strengths that depend largely on the situations in which it is used. They show similarities as well. As Stó:lō historian Naxaxahtls’i (Albert “Sonny” McHalsie) puts it,…
Totem Poles
…the Pacific Northwest to represent and commemorate ancestry, histories, people, or events. Totem poles are typically created out of red cedar, a malleable wood relatively abundant in the Pacific Northwest,…
Reserves
…charges. At Sillery in New France (now part of the Canadian province of Quebec), these settlements were created with the intention to encourage Aboriginal peoples to adopt Christianity.1 These first…
Sixties Scoop
…phase of a larger history, and not to an explicit government policy. Although the practice of removing Aboriginal children from their families and into state care existed before the 1960s…
Governance and Land Claims
…In January through April 2005 the First Nations Studies Program at the University of British Columbia hosted a set of eight lectures exploring the issues of land claims in…