Aboriginal Title
…Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007. Foster, Hamar, “Letting Go The Bone: The Idea of Indian Title in British Columbia, 1849-1927,” in Foster and McLaren, eds., Essays in the History of Canadian…
Sixties Scoop
…1 percent of all children in care, came to make up just over 34 percent.3 In the 1960s, the child welfare system did not require, nor did it expect, social…
Métis
…eds. From Rupert’s Land to Canada: Essays in Honour of John E. Foster. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2001. Brown, Jennifer. Strangers in Blood: Fur Trade Company Families in the…
The Residential School System (2009)
…personal decision of residential school survivors. The Nisga’a Nation will consider the sincerity of the Prime Minister’s apology on the basis of the policies and actions of the government in…
Marginalization of Aboriginal women
…has led to contemporary ideas of Aboriginal women’s sexuality. As Lubicon Cree scholar Robyn Bourgeois described in an interview, the myth of the Aboriginal woman as a sexual deviant persists…
Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…Coast, Labour 61 (Spring 2008): 143. Naxaxalhts’i, Albert (Sonny) McHalsie, “We Have to Take Care of Everything That Belongs to Us,” in Be of Good Mind: Essays on the Coast…
Totem Poles
…Essays in Celebration of the Twenty-Fifth American Indian Workshop, eds. Barbara Saunders and Lea Zuyderhoudt (New York: Cornell University Press, 2004), 80. 10 Halpin, 35. 11 Vickers, 60. 12 Halpin,…
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
…of support here. The United States government announced its decision to review its stance on the Declaration in April 2010, and at various times, President Barack Obama has expressed interest…
Ipperwash Crisis
…longstanding historical grievances which form the root of the problem. By Tanisha Salomons Recommended Resources Websites & online resources Government of Ontario, the Ipperwash Inquiry. http://www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca/inquiries/ipperwash/index.html This website includes the…
Oral Traditions
…and Renate Eigenbrod, eds. Aboriginal Oral Traditions: Theory, Practice, Ethics. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2008. Hymes, Dell. “ In Vain I Tried to Tell You”: Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics. Lincoln:…
