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…about what happened to her at the school.” – Musqueam Nation former chief George Guerin, Kuper Island school Stolen from our Embrace, p 62 European officials of the 19th century…

…while setting standards for national governments regarding Indigenous peoples’ economic, socio-cultural and political rights, including the right to a land base. The convention is law within the nation-states that have…

…to their land, language, culture and socio-political systems came in the form of legislation enacted by the International Labour Organization. The first of these groundbreaking instruments (or legal documents) is…

…Intentions” Proved Catastrophic.” The First Nations Drum, March 2009. Available online at: http://www.firstnationsdrum.com/2009/03/the-sixties-scoop-how-canadas-best-intentions-proved-catastrophic/ Philp, Margaret. “The Land of Lost Children.” The Globe and Mail. 21 December 2002: F4. Available online…

…have 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…

…this day in the form of land disputes, over-incarceration, lack of housing, child apprehension, systemic poverty, marginalization and violence against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA peoples, and other critical issues…

…of local governance. Most bands hold reserve lands, though bands and band members technically do not own the land because the legal title to reserves is vested in the Crown…

…government policy, as the reserve system was created by the government in an attempt to limit Aboriginal peoples’ movement and free up land for arriving settlers. The Residential School System…

…account both the relationship of Aboriginal peoples to the land and the distinctive societies and cultures of Aboriginal peoples.1 The Supreme Court’s ruling and the subsequent adoption of the Van…