Sixties Scoop
…Websites Indian & Northern Affairs Child and Family Services Program: http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/hb/sp/fncf/index-eng.asp First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada (FNCFCS):http://www.fncfcs.com/home.html FNCFCS First Nations Research Site: http://www.fncfcs.com/projects/FNRS.html FNCFCS Resource list:…
MΓ©tis
…of Métis History and Culture, by the Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies and Applied Research. http://www.metismuseum.com/ Political Organizations Métis National Council: http://www.metisnation.ca/ Métis Nation of BC: http://www.mnbc.ca/ Métis Nation…
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
…This New Human Rights Instrument,” NationTalk, May 1, 2008, http://www.nationtalk.ca/modules/news/article.php?storyid=9167 12 “Canada Slammed at UN over Indigenous Rights,” Reuters, May 1, 2008,. Available online at: http://ca.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idCAN0134751220080501 (accessed January 2010). 13…
The Residential School System
…Survivors and family members in Canada. In 2005, Canada and nearly 80,000 Survivors reached the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement in which Canada committed to individual compensation for Survivors, additional…
The Residential School System
…Survivors and family members in Canada. In 2005, Canada and nearly 80,000 Survivors reached the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement in which Canada committed to individual compensation for Survivors, additional…
Aboriginal Rights
…Slattery makes a distinction between specific and generic Aboriginal rights. Generic rights are held by all Aboriginal peoples across Canada, and include: Rights to the land (Aboriginal title) Rights to…
The Residential School System (2009)
…History.” June 9, 2008. Available online: http://www.fns.bc.ca/pdf/Backgrounder_ResidentialSchoolHistory.pdf 21 Communiqué of the Holy See Press Office, April 24, 2009. 22 Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission website: Backgrounder. www.trc-cvr.ca/28_04_08.html 23…
The Indian Act
…Nations Governance, 2008. Available online at: http://fngovernance.org/ncfng_research/milloy.pdf Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. “Chapter 9: The Indian Act,” in Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Looking Forward, Looking Back….
Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…and the circumstances Indigenous fishers must still navigate in order to harvest fish from their ancestral fishing grounds: declining runs, increasing competition from sports and non-Native commercial fisheries, restrictions on…
Aboriginal Identity & Terminology
…their community may not recognize the traditional community name, or might know the community or nation by another name than the one the community uses: many common names others use…
