The Residential School System
…today. The term Indigenous Peoples can also be found in UBC’s Indigenous Peoples Language Guidelines . In this section: What Were Residential Schools? What Led to the Residential Schools? Living…
The Residential School System
…today. The term Indigenous Peoples can also be found in UBC’s Indigenous Peoples Language Guidelines . In this section: What Were Residential Schools? What Led to the Residential Schools? Living…
The Residential School System (2009)
…was infamously said, “to kill the Indian in the child.” Today, we recognize that this policy of assimilation was wrong, has caused great harm, and has no place in our…
Aboriginal Identity & the Classroom
…Today project. Although the initial context of this paper was written with a classroom context in mind, we strongly recommend it as foundational reading for understanding the complexities of Aboriginal…
Reserves
…schools and the “Sixties Scoop,” has contributed to the situation that many reserves find themselves in today. Nonetheless, as Cole Harris has observed, despite the radical changes brought by the…
Totem Poles
…neighbouring groups who had unpaid debts. Shame poles were more common in the nineteenth century, but today, some First Nations erect these poles as a form of protest against the…
Government Policy
…to develop an understanding of the relationship between the Canadian government and Aboriginal peoples, and how government policy continues to be an invasive force on Aboriginal peoples today, we recommend…
Sixties Scoop
…their homes and placed, in most cases, into middle-class Euro-Canadian families. This overrepresentation continues today. An epidemic of Aboriginal child apprehension The government began phasing out compulsory residential school education…
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
…the U.N. Declaration—Or Is It?” Indian Country Today. May 3, 2010. —— “Emerging International Indigenous Rights Norms and ‘Over-compliance’ in New Zealand and Canada.” Political Science vol. 62, no.1 (2010):…
Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…were once decried by cannery owners as “barricades” that prevented fish from reaching the spawning grounds, and are still considered illegal by DFO, some environmentalists today are looking to weirs…
