Mapping Tool: Kitsilano Reserve
…False Creek, in what is now Vancouver, British Columbia, was the site of an ancient village known in the Musqueam language, hən’q’emin’əm’, as sən’a?qw and in Skwxwú7mesh as Sen’ákw….
Gustafsen Lake
…did not reveal that it was in fact their own ERT. The RCMP would phone back once the ERT mission was over, revealing the men as RCMP officers.8 Several other…
Totem Poles
…the Pacific Northwest to represent and commemorate ancestry, histories, people, or events. Totem poles are typically created out of red cedar, a malleable wood relatively abundant in the Pacific Northwest,…
Aboriginal Identity & Terminology
…lie in specific and distinct communities with specific cultural and linguistic traditions. The term “Métis” is popularly associated with the specific Red River communities that participated in the Northwest Rebellion…
The Residential School System (2009)
…to 44, suicide and self-inflicted injury is the number one cause of death, responsible for almost 40 percent of mortalities.18 First Nations women attempt suicide eight times more often than…
Constitution Express
…of Ottawa came to us and asked us how we were doing and we told her, well, we only had about, we could count the number of billets we’d arranged…
Government Policy
…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…
Reserves
…system itself.10 A reserve can provide a community in which Aboriginal people feel free to practice their cultures and customs, live close to their extended families, and raise their children…
Indian Status
…their band, and their registration number. “Status Indians” are wards of the Canadian federal government, a paternalistic legal relationship that illustrates the historical imperial notion that Aboriginal peoples are “children”…
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
…to be free from discrimination, and the right to a nationality. Read the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples here. Significantly, in Article 3 the UNDRIP recognizes Indigenous…
