The Residential School System
…Schools.” Ottawa: Supply and Services Canada, 1996. Erasmus, George. Notes on A History of the Indian Residential School System in Canada Fournier, Suzanne and Ernie Crey. Stolen from our Embrace:…
Indian Homemakers’ Association of British Columbia
…the Department of Indian Affairs had over our lives.” — Mary John, former president of the Vanderoof Chapter, IHA. From Stoney Creek Woman, 135, 142. By 1968, DIA funding for…
Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
…the National Indian Brotherhood and the World Council on Indigenous Peoples. 1980s: Renewed hope and revitalization for UBCIC UBCIC’s 20th anniversary poster, 1989. Image courtesy of UBCIC. In 1979, George…
Bands
…administering the Indian Act and policies and programs relating to bands, including disbursement of administrative monies, social service programs, and educational programs; band administration is responsible for the day-to-day functioning…
Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…been leased for fishing to canneries and other non-Native fishing companies. Sparrow, Van der Peet, and other legal challenges In 1984, the Musqueam band decided to challenge the restrictions that…
Terminology
…in Canada with “status” and “non-status Indians,” the legally defined categories of people under the Indian Act. On the other hand, terms can empower populations when the people have the…
Sixties Scoop
…Minister of Community Services / Review Committee on Indian and Métis Adoptions and Placements . Manitoba: Review Committee on Indian and Métis Adoptions and Placements, 1983. Pivot Legal Society. Broken…
George Manuel
…for World Indigenous Studies, 1995. https://www.cwis.org/document/the-legacy-of-grand-chief-george-manuel/ Endnotes 1 McFarlane, Peter. Brotherhood to Nationhood: George Manuel and the Making of the Modern Indian Movement. Toronto: Between the Lines, 1993, 9….
UBC Dialogue: Full Record
…Burning): Participants leave by Ceremonial Door Observations by Participants (following event) On November 1, 2011, in collaboration with the Indian Residential School Survivors Society, the First Nations House of Learning…
Aboriginal Title
…Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007. Foster, Hamar, “Letting Go The Bone: The Idea of Indian Title in British Columbia, 1849-1927,” in Foster and McLaren, eds., Essays in the History of Canadian…
