Aboriginal Identity & Terminology
…can change rapidly, changing the name of a building or established program often may only cause confusion or weaken its recognized identity without much functional gain. Similarly, documents written at…
Bill C-31
…a non-Indian in 1964. She separated from her husband and attempted to return to her reserve to live in a house inherited by her mother. She found that she, and…
Constitution Express
…that had established First Nations rights, such as in treaties and proclamations, might no longer hold legal weight, as the Constitution excluded any reference to them.6 That First Nations would…
The Indian Act
…live in bondage under the inequitable Indian Act than surrender our sacred rights. Any time the government wants to honour its obligations to us we are more than happy to…
Aboriginal Rights
…right to fish. This right may not continue to exist for other First Nations. The Powley case ruled that Métis peoples of Sault Ste Marie have an existing Aboriginal right…
The White Paper 1969
…2 vols. Ottawa: Queen’s Printer Press, 1966–1967. Available online: http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/ai/arp/ls/phi-eng.asp Weaver, Sally. “The Hawthorn Report: Its Use in the Making of Canadian Indian Policy.” In Anthropology, Public Policy and Native…
George Manuel
…In 1970, Manuel became the president of the National Indian Brotherhood (now the Assembly of First Nations). He would hold this position for the following six years. Manuel sought the…
Powley Case
…Steve and Roddy Powley shot and killed a moose near Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. They did not hold a license, and tagged the moose with a handwritten tag claiming they…
Indian Status
…such as band administration, education, and health care. The Indian Act has historically stated that those with Indian status have rights to live on reserves, share in band monies, vote…
Oral Traditions
…singular recounting of a series of events. As readers, we may interpret these writings, but the writing itself remains the same. Oral narratives, on the other hand, do not have…
