The Residential School System
…today. The term Indigenous Peoples can also be found in UBC’s Indigenous Peoples Language Guidelines . In this section: What Were Residential Schools? What Led to the Residential Schools? Living…
The Residential School System
…today. The term Indigenous Peoples can also be found in UBC’s Indigenous Peoples Language Guidelines . In this section: What Were Residential Schools? What Led to the Residential Schools? Living…
About Sovereignty Performance
…Interview with Jordan Bennett Can you please introduce yourself? Where you are from? My name is Jordan Bennett, I am a Visual Artist of Mi’kmaq and french descent and…
The Residential School System (2009)
…was infamously said, “to kill the Indian in the child.” Today, we recognize that this policy of assimilation was wrong, has caused great harm, and has no place in our…
About Jordan Bennett
…interactive performance spaces, I aim to form an atmosphere where traditional meets contemporary, shifting preconceived notions on an object or an actions original function or intent. Official website http://www.jordanbennett.ca…
Aboriginal Identity & the Classroom
…Today project. Although the initial context of this paper was written with a classroom context in mind, we strongly recommend it as foundational reading for understanding the complexities of Aboriginal…
Reserves
…schools and the “Sixties Scoop,” has contributed to the situation that many reserves find themselves in today. Nonetheless, as Cole Harris has observed, despite the radical changes brought by the…
Totem Poles
…neighbouring groups who had unpaid debts. Shame poles were more common in the nineteenth century, but today, some First Nations erect these poles as a form of protest against the…
Government Policy
…to develop an understanding of the relationship between the Canadian government and Aboriginal peoples, and how government policy continues to be an invasive force on Aboriginal peoples today, we recommend…
