Métis
…Samuel de Champlain famously said in 1634, “our young men will marry your daughters, and we will be one people.”1 This reflected the French policy of recognizing and making use…
Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…example, this Globe and Mail article from 2009.) Elsewhere along the coast, fish were taken in the tidal areas where salmon congregate near the mouths of rivers. At some locations,…
Reserves
…Native lives were still being lived. There were still joys as well as sorrows in Native households. There were still Native people taking charge of their own lives and getting…
Berger Inquiry
…the NWT to hear evidence from Dene elders who recalled the signing of the treaties. They said the treaties were peace agreements, not a surrender of the land. Justice Morrow…
Musqueam Legal History Digital Media Archive
…reduces the value of lands by half, entitling the leaseholders to pay lower rent. Lease lands Media Archive University Lands Most recently, in the spring of 2008, British Columbia finalized…
Gustafsen Lake
…possible death. Switlo says that the irony of the huge militarized police presence and “siege” was that the Sundancers were surreptitiously entering and exiting the camp regularly despite this warning.…
Bill C-31
…of the property and, fearing eviction, she brought legal action against her band. Bedard won the case based on the legal precedent set by the Lavell case. The cases were…
Global Actions
…http://www.nzdl.org/gsdlmod?e=d-00000-00—off-0ipc–00-0—-0-10-0—0—0direct-10—4——-0-1l–11-en-50—20-about—00-0-1-00-0–4—-0-0-11-10-0utfZz-8-00&cl=CL1.7&d=HASH01e837a63c33c9b791bf5928&x=1 7 Sanders. 8 Sanders. 9 The Inuit Circumpolar Council (Canada), “Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC),” http://inuitcircumpolar.com/index.php?ID=16&Lang=En&Parent_ID=16 10 United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, “Structure within ECOSOC,” https://www.un.org/en/ecosoc/about/pdf/ecosoc_chart.pdf 11 Ibid….
The Residential School System
…British subjects—in short, assimilate them. By the 1950s, the same officials were doubting the viability of such project. The devastating effects of the residential schools and the needs and life…
The Residential School System
…British subjects—in short, assimilate them. By the 1950s, the same officials were doubting the viability of such project. The devastating effects of the residential schools and the needs and life…
