The Residential School System (2009)
…non-Aboriginal Canadians did not know about this chapter in Canadian history. In 1998, based on the commission’s recommendations and in light of the court cases, the Canadian government publicly apologized…
The Indian Act
…C-21: An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act.” Parliamentary Information and Research Service, Law and Governance Division, 2008. Available online at: https://lop.parl.ca/sites/PublicWebsite/default/en_CA/ResearchPublications/LegislativeSummaries/392LS577E 9 “This apartheid law prohibited traditional…
The Residential School System
…the residential school system—many non-Indigenous Canadians did not know about this chapter in Canadian history. In 1998, based on the commission’s recommendations and considering the court cases, the Canadian government…
The Residential School System
…the residential school system—many non-Indigenous Canadians did not know about this chapter in Canadian history. In 1998, based on the commission’s recommendations and considering the court cases, the Canadian government…
Marginalization of Aboriginal women
…of Pamela George,” Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 2000, 15:2, pp. 91-30.) Razack argues that in contemporary Canadian society, violence against Aboriginal women has become normalized, and that the…
Gustafsen Lake
…in 1995 between the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and sundancers and their helpers (Sundancers) conducting religious ceremony that lasted more than thirty days. Gustafsen Lake has been called the…
Métis
…peoples in the Canadian landscape. The Red River Métis One the best-known Métis populations began in the Red River region of what is now Manitoba. In 1869, Canada purchased Rupert’s…
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
…that the UNDRIP outlines minimum human rights standards, complementing rather than overriding existing rights.10 In an open letter, 101 Canadian lawyers and legal experts called the Canadian government’s claims “misleading,”:…
Aboriginal Rights
…under Canadian common law. It is difficult to specifically list these rights, as Aboriginal peoples and the Canadian government may hold differing views. Some rights that Aboriginal peoples have practiced…
Indian Status
…rights conferred by this status despite being Indigenous to Canada and participating in Canadian nation building. (This is not to be confused with the Canadian Constitution’s recognition of Indian, Métis…
