Oral Traditions
…and conveyed from generation to generation. Oral traditions form the foundation of Aboriginal societies, connecting speaker and listener in communal experience and uniting past and present in memory.”2 Western discourse…
About Sovereignty Performance
…I am from a small town called Stephenville Crossing in Western Newfoundland. When creating a new piece, which materials do you gravitate towards and why? Usually when I create a…
Aboriginal Identity & the Classroom
…not 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…
Global Actions
…Western society has emphasized individual rights and freedoms—seeking, basically, to protect the individual from abuses by the state or other powers. Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms predominantly protects individual…
Reserves
…sponsored the construction of housing on reserve. These houses were designed with the Western nuclear family unit in mind, and could not accommodate larger, more extensive Aboriginal families. Often shoddily…
Totem Poles
…a pole Carving a totem pole requires not only artistic skill, but an intimate understanding of cultural histories and forest ecology. Most totem poles are made from Western red cedar,…
Cedar
…cedar trees that grow in the temperate rainforests of coastal British Columbia: Yellow Cedar and Western Red Cedar. Yellow Cedar usually stands between 20 to 40 metres tall, and it…
The Indian Act
…Canada’s First Nations. Second Ed. Toronto: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008. 121-131. Tobias, John. “Civilization, Protection, Assimilation: An Outline of Canada’s Indian Policy.” The Western Canadian Journal of Anthropology, 6:2 (1976):…
Constitution Act, 1982 Section 35
…and judge Mary-Ellen Turpel also argues that by accepting the Constitution, a colonial form of rule based in Western (non-Indigenous) concepts and ideologies, such as individual rights and private property…