Sixties Scoop
…http://www.nfb.ca/film/richard_cardinal/ 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…
The Residential School System (2009)
…woodworking, and domestic work such as laundry work and sewing. Residential schools systematically undermined Aboriginal culture across Canada and disrupted families for generations, severing the ties through which Aboriginal culture…
Métis
…Diane. “The Free People—Otipemisiwak,” Batoche, Saskatchewan, 1870–1930. Ottawa: National Historical Parks and Sites, Canada Parks Service, 1990. Peterson, Jacqueline, and Jennifer Brown, eds. The New Peoples: Being and Becoming Métis…
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
…free of this colonial mindset, not reinforce it. As human rights lawyer James Sa’ke’j Youngblood Henderson observes, “[Member states] worried about the implications of Indigenous rights, refusing to acknowledge the…
Ipperwash Crisis
…A Roadmap to Improved Relationships and Quality of Life.” https://www.ontario.ca/page/ipperwash-inquiry-report Books & journal articles Beare, Margaret and Tonita Murray, Eds. “The Ipperwash Inquiry: Research on Police Governance, Independence and Accountability.”…
ILO Convention 107
…107 describes Indigenous populations as “at a less advanced stage” than the colonizers and suggests that “the process of losing their tribal characteristics” is inevitable. The convention extended political rights,…
Community & Politics
…include: The Assembly of First Nations – http://www.afn.ca The First Nations Summit – http://www.fns.bc.ca/ The Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami – http://www.itk.ca The Native Women’s Association of Canada – http://www.nwac.ca The Metis…
Totem Poles
…in the fish and fur trade with Europeans. During this time, coastal First Nations acquired new tools that enabled them to construct more elaborate poles. Most poles, even though they…
ILO Convention 169
…framework of the States in which they live.” The Convention guarantees Indigenous peoples the right to participate in decision-making on activities that may impact their own societies and territories, such…
Global Actions
…the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and in negotiations of the U.S.-Canada free trade agreement. On the domestic front, the AFN worked on constitutional amendments in the 1980s, the Charlottetown Accord,…
