Global Actions
There are an estimated 370 million Indigenous peoples worldwide, living in 70 different countries, according to the United Nations (U.N.) Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Despite vast diversity among Indigenous…
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
…the UN. General Assembly. The non-signatories: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States initially refused to sign the UNDRIP. The four…
Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…750,000 salmon that year.8 One anthropologist estimated the annual pre-contact level of salmon consumption at 1,000 pounds per capita; with an immediate pre-contact Stó:lō population of 20,000 to 60,000 people,…
Marginalization of Aboriginal women
…hundreds of First Nations, historians and experts largely agree that a balance between women and men’s roles typically existed in pre-contact Aboriginal societies, where women and men had different, but…
UBC Dialogue: Full Record
Video Controls TimeCode Chapt ChapterSelect — Chapters — Ceremonial Opening (Evening, Oct 31) Opening Remarks Musqueam welcome; remarks by Linc Kesler, Director of UBC First Nations House of Learning; Musqueam…
UBC Dialogue: Nov 1, 2011
…of the Indian Residential Schools. Preparations for the day began the night before with a Ceremonial Opening at UBC’s Museum of Anthropology (MOA), and the Dialogue began the next morning…
Aboriginal Rights
…rights that were practiced prior to European contact. Some scholars and legal experts caution that this test then “freezes” Aboriginal rights in a post-contact era without accounting for the necessity…
UBC Dialogue: Full Video Record
…services (face-to-face, telephone, and e-counselling) through the Employee and Family Assistance Program. Contact Homewood Human Solutions at 1.800.663.1142 for 24 hour-a-day access to counselling. 24 Hour-A-Day Crisis Counseling Call 1.800.784.2433….
The Residential School System (2009)
This article has been archived. An updated version was published in 2020; read it here. Residential Schools Children’s dining room, Indian Residential School, Edmonton, Alberta. Between 1925-1936. United Church Archives,…
The Residential School System
…also holding Canada and the United Church vicariously liable. In addition to convicting Plint, the court held the federal government and the United Church responsible for the wrongs committed. Meanwhile,…
