Sixties Scoop
…at: http://www.fact.on.ca/news/news0212/gm021221a.htm Lyons, Tom. “For more than 20 years, Canada took native children from their homes and placed them with white families. Now a lost generation want its history back.”…
Ipperwash Crisis
…Aboriginal peoples the day before George was shot, and former Attorney General Charles Harnick testified before the inquiry that Mike Harris had stated, “I want the fucking Indians out of…
The Residential School System (2009)
…on the threshold of a new beginning where we are in control of our own destinies. We must be careful and listen to the voices that have been silenced by…
Totem Poles
…loss of Aboriginal territory or for other political grievances. One well-known shame pole, which stands in Cordova, Alaska, was carved by Tlingit fisherman Mike Webber to protest the environmental disaster…
Métis
…on Métis peoples. As exemplified in the Powley case, the term Métis has come to hold legal and political significance. In fact, Métis rights discourse has been at the cutting…
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
…in the United States. In April 2010, the United States announced that it would hold a formal review of the UNDRIP, and, in December 2010, after several months of consultations,…
Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…fishing site, the sports fishers angling nearby moved out of the way, as they usually did, but this time there was one sports fishing boat that refused to move. Charlie’s…
Marginalization of Aboriginal women
…the Indian Act until 1951, although to this day men still hold exclusive rights to property, even if a relationship ends. This has far-reaching implications in the lives and safety…
Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
…in 1983 and would hold it until 1998, the longest term of any UBCIC President. When Saul Terry decided not to run, Chief Stewart Phillip was elected in 1998. He…
ILO Convention 169
…7). The Convention calls upon the government to uphold these rights and to recognize Indigenous peoples’ unique historical and socio-economic position within the state and their integral connection to their…
