Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
…a document that rejected the White Paper policy proposals and would become the cornerstone for UBCIC’s Land Claims position on Aboriginal title to the land.5 A turning point for UBCIC:…
Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…necessary for conservation. The Supreme Court of Canada found that Aboriginal rights had not been extinguished simply because they were regulated in great detail, and it rejected the “public interest”…
The White Paper 1969
…paper as a form of cultural genocide. In 1970, the Indian Association of Alberta, under Cardinal’s leadership, rejected the white paper in their document Citizens Plus, which became popularly known…
Aboriginal Title
…lawyer Hamar Foster has stated, “To ‘accept’ the legal concept of Indian title in B.C. is to accept a claim, not a result, and is quite consistent with rejecting a…
Calder Case
…had never been lawfully extinguished through treaty or by any other means. While both the BC Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal rejected the claim, the Nisga’a appealed to…
The Indian Act
…policy was overwhelmingly rejected by Aboriginal peoples across Canada who felt that assimilating into mainstream Canadian society was not the means to achieve equality. They wanted to maintain a legal…
Ipperwash Crisis
…Ontario. The government had initially made an offer to the Stony Point First Nation, but they rejected it, as the land was of particular cultural and spiritual significance due to…
Gustafsen Lake
…occupants. They asserted that most of the Sundancers rejected violence, and that those who were aggressive were transient agitators who would not have to face the day-to-day consequences of their…
Marginalization of Aboriginal women
…archetype of the virtuous Indian Princess willing to reject her own people for Christian civilization.6 Thus developed the Indian Princess/Squaw dichotomy, or, what Rayna Green terms “the Pocahontas perplex,” placing…
Oral Traditions
…question of difference in my own Mi’kmaq language I cannot find any difference or reason why there should be a difference between oral tradition and oral history.”13 Some scholars have…