Sixties Scoop
…at: http://www.fact.on.ca/news/news0212/gm021221a.htm Lyons, Tom. “For more than 20 years, Canada took native children from their homes and placed them with white families. Now a lost generation want its history back.”…
The Residential School System (2009)
…Prime Minister Harper delivering the apology in the House of Commons here. Reconciliation & Healing Initiatives Aboriginal Healing Foundation – www.ahf.ca The Indian Residential School Survivors Society – http://www.irsss.ca/ Legacy…
Ipperwash Crisis
…time, the government assured the Stony Point First Nation that it would be returned to them. However, the land was not returned in the years following the war, and in…
Métis
…developed. In recent years, partially due to the Métis rights case R. v. Powley, the word Métis has shifted from referring to a single cultural identity produced by European-Aboriginal intermarriage…
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
…96. United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues official website: http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/index.html Endnotes 1 James Sa’ke’j Youngblood Henderson, Indigenous Diplomacy and the Rights of Peoples: Achieving U.N. Recognition (Saskatoon: Purich Publishing,…
Community & Politics
…of these actions and initiatives in this section entitled Community and Politics. In order to aid your understanding of these topics, we also recommend visiting our sections on Aboriginal rights…
Totem Poles
…the last 200 years.5 Most historians and other experts agree that totem pole carving did not reach its peak until the nineteenth century, when many coastal First Nations were involved…
ILO Convention 107
…in 18 countries.3 By Erin Hanson. Links & Recommended Resources International Labour Organization website: www.ilo.org Convention 107: https://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/fp=NORMLEXPUB:12100:0::NO::P12100_ILO_CODE:C107 “Indigenous and Tribal Peoples” https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/indigenous-tribal/lang–en/index.htm Nations that ratified Convention 107: https://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f?p=1000:11300:0::NO:11300:P11300_INSTRUMENT_ID:312252 Endnotes…
ILO Convention 169
…Gerard. “ILO Convention 169: Can it help?” http://www.abyayalanews.org/document/2444 2 Schutling. 3 Rachel Seider, ed., Multiculturalism in Latin America: Indigenous Rights, Diversity and Democracy (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), 4….
Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
…Chiefs‘ Council. Each member of the Executive Committee serves a term of three years.3 The UBCIC holds an Annual General Meeting (AGM) every year in which each member band is…
