Community & Politics
…man. Political Figures George Manuel was a prominent political leader who held a number of influential roles in his career, including chief of the Neskonlith Indian Band of the Shuswap…
Berger Inquiry
…ruled that the caveat could be filed. Meet Thomas Berger A decade ago, colleagues in the Peter A. Allard School of Law began to capture the stories of lawyers and…
Welcome to Indigenous Foundations
…Residential Schools. On November 1, 2011 the UBC First Nations House of Learning, in collaboration with the Indian Residential School Survivors Society, hosted a day-long event addressing the history and…
Sparrow Case
…https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/609/index.do Kulchyski, Peter. Ed. “Sparrow,” in Unjust Relations: Aboriginal Rights in Canadian Courts. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 1994. 212-237. Helloing, Evaleen. “The Legacy of R v Sparrow.” (2020). http://www.thecourt.ca/the-legacy-of-r-v-sparrow/…
Powley Case
…By Tanisha Salomons & Erin Hanson. Recommended resources Court decisions: Supreme Court of Canada, R. v. Powley, [2003] 2 S.C.R. 207, 2003 SCC 43: https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/2076/index.do Ontario Court of Appeal, R….
Bill C-31
…and non-Aboriginal women’s groups to pressure the Canadian government to change the law. This action was catelysed when Sandra Lovelace took her case challenging the Indian Act to the United…
Culture
First Nations of British Columbia. Click to enlarge. Reproduced courtesy of the Museum of Anthropology, University of B.C., Vancouver. Aboriginal groups across what is now Canada each have their…
