Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…serious concerns of the Stó:lō First Nation bands who depend on the Fraser River for salmon. “The Fraser River’s Aboriginal people are now engaged in a desperate struggle to catch…
Marginalization of Aboriginal women
…state to step up and protect us. And these stereotypes provide the justification for why the State doesn’t step up.14 Indian Act Gendered Discrimination Now that we’ve explored the ways…
Gustafsen Lake
…the rest of his article here: http://www.nationnewsarchives.ca/article/rcmp-should-avoid-waco-style-shootout-in-b-c/.) Then-Attorney General Ujjal Dosanj would infamously state, “Where’s the other side of the story? There is only one side of the story. There…
UBC Dialogue: Nov 1, 2011
…day, participants, who included administrators, faculty, staff, and students from UBC and other institutions, and Aboriginal leaders, school survivors, and community members, heard testimony from scholars, survivors, students, leaders, and…
UBC Dialogue: Full Video Record
…experiencing pain or distress as a result of his or her residential school experience. UBC Faculty and Staff Faculty and staff have access to counselling services (face-to-face, telephone, and e-counselling)…
UBC Dialogue: Full Record
…Reconciliation Commission; the Commission and its legacy; the need for future work Melissa Morrison (student, Eric Hamber Secondary): The effects of residential schools on current students; the hope for the…
Reserves
…along in the different world that had overtaken them…Their identities were still Native, still Nisga’a, Tsimshian, Nuxalk, or Nlha7kapmx, and they still lived, for the most part, within the territories…
Sixties Scoop
…2, “Families.” Ottawa: Minister of Supply and Services Canada, 1996. 9-106. Bennett, Marilyn. “First Nations Fact Sheet: A General Profile on First Nations Child Welfare in Canada.” First Nations Child…
Oral Traditions
…Stó:lō historian Naxaxahlts’i describes some of the different types of histories as understood by the Stó:lō. Sxwóxwiyam refers to creation stories, or, as Naxaxahlts’i puts it, “the stories about when…
Musqueam Legal History Digital Media Archive
…legal history digital archive was put together in 2009 by 4th year First Nations Studies student Tanisha Salomons. Tanisha examined how the legal history of the Musqueam Band was presented…
