The Residential School System
…were often given numbers, and their days were strictly regimented by timetables. Boys and girls were kept separate, and even siblings rarely interacted, further weakening family ties. Chief Bobby Joseph…
Global Actions
…society has emphasized individual rights and freedoms—seeking, basically, to protect the individual from abuses by the state or other powers. Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms predominantly protects individual rights,…
Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
…serving as a source of information for bands across the province, and building capacity for Aboriginal communities.2 The UBCIC also holds a special consultative status with the Economic and Social…
Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…capacity of the camp, of the number of children that extended families had, of the number of fishing rocks that were accessible according to the varying levels of the river…
Sixties Scoop
…was one of these areas.2 In 1951, twenty-nine Aboriginal children were in provincial care in British Columbia; by 1964, that number was 1,466. Aboriginal children, who had comprised only 1…
About the REDress project
…will later be installed in public spaces throughout Winnipeg and across Canada as a visual reminder of the staggering number of women who are no longer with us. Through the…
Governance and Land Claims
…Delbert Guerin explain the rocky road to “the honour of the Crown” (Land Claims 3,56), or Satsan (Herb George) tell a fantastic story about community values and outside experts (Land…
Oral Traditions
…conveyed from generation to generation. Oral traditions form the foundation of Aboriginal societies, connecting speaker and listener in communal experience and uniting past and present in memory.”2 Western discourse has…
Powley Case
…laid claim to Rupert’s Land and beyond, many Métis populations in the west did not experience any on-the-ground evidence of this authority for generations and continued to function as independent,…
The Indian Act
…the coming years. The potlatch was one of the most important ceremonies for coastal First Nations in the west, and marked important occasions as well as served a crucial role…