Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
…Social Council of the United Nations. Since its inception, the UBCIC has established several publications, including its newspaper NESIKA, the UBCIC News, and Indian World. These publications along with frequent…
Aboriginal Rights
…forums such as the United Nations (UN) in order to argue against the British Crown’s imposition of its own laws and regulations onto existing Aboriginal legal systems and institutions. Canada…
Bill C-31
…United Nations Human Rights Committee. Lovelace, a Maliseet woman from Tobique in New Brunswick, had married an American man and moved away from her reserve community. When the marriage ended…
ILO Convention 107
…United Nations (U.N.), were concerned with raising labour standards around the world after World War II. In 1946, along with other U.N. affiliates and agencies such as the U. N….
Aboriginal Identity & Terminology
…right to claim membership may be challenged. In the United States, tribal communities decide membership and the standards of inclusion vary widely. In Canada, while the government decides “Indian status”…
Government Policy
…crucial to early European explorers’ survival in unfamiliar territories, and later were valuable military allies in wars between Canada and the United States in the 17th and 18th centuries. When…
Royal Proclamation, 1763
…Rights and Freedoms guarantees that nothing can terminate or diminish the Aboriginal rights outlined in the Proclamation. The Royal Proclamation also applied to the United States; however, American independence from…
Gustafsen Lake
…were beginning to notice. Many international Indigenous leaders, as well as a former Attorney General of the United States and noted human rights activist, (William) Ramsey Clark, wrote to Canadian…
George Manuel
…other Aboriginal people in their fight against the federal plan. George Manuel united Indigenous peoples on local, regional, national and international levels in an attempt to see Aboriginal rights recognized….
Berger Inquiry
…apply to build a pipeline down the Mackenzie Valley and ship the hydrocarbons to markets in the United States. Two pipeline companies proposed different routes. Canadian Arctic Gas Pipelines (CAGPL),…
