ILO Convention 169
…Peoples’ Rights Through ILO Conventions: A compilation of ILO supervisory bodies’ comments 2009-2010.” International Labour Organization, 2010. Available online: https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/—ed_norm/–normes/documents/publication/wcms_126028.pdf Schulting, Gerard. “ILO Convention 169: Can it help?” http://www.abyayalanews.org/document/2444 Swepston,…
Terminology
…term as such. Aboriginal is also a common term for the Indigenous peoples of Australia. When used in Canada, however, it is generally understood to refer to Aboriginal peoples in…
ILO Convention 107
…such as citizenship and the vote in nations where these rights were absent (Aboriginal peoples in Canada did not receive the franchise until 1960). It also recommended vocational training to…
Musqueam Legal History Digital Media Archive
…these cases made it to the Supreme Court of Canada and they have been crucial in further defining Aboriginal rights and title. They have also been hugely influential in raising…
Royal Proclamation, 1763
…Proclamation is still valid in Canada, since no law has overruled it.1 The Royal Proclamation is enshrined in Section 25 of the Constitution Act; this section of the Charter of…
Gustafsen Lake
…/Gustafsen Lake, 1995.” Available online at https://warriorpublications.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/tspeten-1995/ 2 Janice G.A.E. Switlo. Gustafsen Lake: Under Siege. Exposing the truth behind the Gustafsen Lake Stand-off. (Peachland, B.C.: TIAC Communications Ltd.) 1997. 101….
George Manuel
…excerpts and so on available online via Doreen Manuel’s website, “Running Wolf Productions:” http://www.runningwolf.ca/from-the-heart/ Manuel, George, and Michael Posluns. The Fourth World: An Indian Reality. Toronto: Collier-Macmillan Canada, 1974. McFarlane,…
Bill C-31
…upheld the Indian Act, Lovelace took her case before the UN Human Rights Committee, which, in 1981, found Canada in breach of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights….
Indian Homemakers’ Association of British Columbia
…Aboriginal peoples. Beginning in the 1930s, the Department of Indian Affairs (DIA) provided small grants to fund homemakers’ clubs on reserves across Canada. These were clubs where women would gather…
Oral Traditions
…Your Land, Where are Your Stories?: Finding Common Ground. Toronto: A.A. Knopf Canada, 2003. Cruikshank, Julie. Do Glaciers Listen?: Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters and Social Imagination. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005….
