Sixties Scoop
…child.”17 In 2007, the AFN filed a complaint with the Canada Human Rights Commission claiming that INAC’s funding provisions created inequality between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities. In May 2008, Canada’s…
Métis
…communities that were not only an amalgamation of European-Aboriginal unions, but also of unions between different First Nations. The Powley case in 2003 set the legal definition of “Métis” as…
Powley Case
…time frame qualifier needed a new definition that differed from the “pre-contact” conditions set for Indian rights in Van der Peet or Sparrow. As Métis peoples are a result of…
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
…1993 to the Subcommission on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities (now known as the Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights), who approved it the…
Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…Environmental Law Review 12 (2000): 375-412. Endnotes 1 “Native groups want sport fishing ban after shooting.” The Canadian Pres, August 18, 2009. https://www.ctvnews.ca/native-groups-want-sport-fishing-ban-after-shooting-1.426462 2 http://bcelders.com/Newsletter/Sept06.pdf 3 Nicholas Xumthoult Claxton, “…
Ipperwash Crisis
…Inquiry Transcript, November 23, 2005. http://mail.tscript.com/trans/ipperwash/nov_23_05/text.htm Ipperwash Inquiry Transcript, November 28, 2006. http://mail.tscript.com/trans/ipperwash/nov_28_05/text.htm Gillespie, Kerry. “Ipperwash Land Returned to Indians.” In The Star. December 21, 2007. http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/287702 Ontario, The Ipperwash…
Cedar
…Memorial” SFU Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. https://swswlibrary.com/culture-and-history/a-journey-into-time-immemorial/ “Thunderbird Park” Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria, B.C. https://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/exhibits/tbird-park/main.htm?lang=eng Books & Articles McMillan, Alan D., and Eldon Yellowhorn. First Peoples in Canada….
Van der Peet case
R. v. Van der Peet [1996] The Van der Peet case was pivotal in further defining Aboriginal rights as outlined in Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982. Dorothy Van…
Totem Poles
…major efforts to maintain their cultural traditions in the face of assimilationist policies. Following the repeal of discriminatory legislation in 1951, a new generation of artists began to learn and…
Aboriginal Identity & the Classroom
…only between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people, but between Aboriginal people as well. The relationship between assimilation and Western education Western education in North America has historically functioned as a mechanism…
