Klamath Termination
…of their reservation. With the passage of this federal law, the extensive land holdings of the reservation passed out of tribal control, and community members, no longer recognized as Indians,…
Video Resources
…reservation in southern Oregon, but lost their status as Indian people and as tribes along with their control of reservation lands through an act of Congress in the 1950s. Other…
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…
Government Policy
…responded to and actively resisted against it since its inception. In some instances, this resistance has managed to affect and shape some policy. Regardless, the colonial origins of Aboriginal policy…
The Indian Act
…paper policy of 1969 as the turning point when the federal government finally abandoned their policy of assimilation for a policy geared toward establishing constitutionally protected rights for First Nations.5…
The White Paper 1969
…paper acknowledged the social inequality of Aboriginal peoples in Canada and to a lesser degree the history of poor federal policy choices, many Aboriginal peoples viewed the new policy statement…
Marginalization of Aboriginal women
…normalize: regulation of the family, the reserve system and geographic exclusion, and political exclusion. Government policy and legislation impacted the expected roles and rights of Aboriginal women in various and…
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This article has been archived.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,…
UBC Dialogue: Nov 1, 2011
On November 1, 2011, in collaboration with the Indian Residential School Survivors Society, the First Nations House of Learning at UBC hosted a day-long Dialogue on the History and Legacy…