UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
…statement, for example, Member of Parliament Jenny Macklin called the Declaration “historic and aspirational.” And one year later, New Zealand’s Minister of Maori Affairs, Dr. Pita Sharples, described her government’s…
Global Actions
…century, policymakers have been obliged to balance individual rights with collective rights through new international instruments. A history of global Indigenous organizations Chief Deskaheh Chief Levi General (1873–1925), now better…
Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…Muszynski, Alicja. “The Creation and Organization of Cheap Wage Labour in the British Columbia Fishing Industry.” PhD Dissertation, University of British Columbia, 1986. R G-10, Vol. 12338, Indian Agent’s Letterbook,…
Oral Traditions
…stone anyone who misbehaved, resulting in a number of distinct geological formations throughout S’olh Temexw (or Stó:lō territory). Xe:xals also rewarded individuals who showed exemplary behaviour by turning them into…
Marginalization of Aboriginal women
…do not have close family ties and many deliberately go ‘missing’ for any number of reasons, including their desire to evade the police.”20 However, as scholar John Lowman points out,…
Indian Status
…their band, and their registration number. “Status Indians” are wards of the Canadian federal government, a paternalistic legal relationship that illustrates the historical imperial notion that Aboriginal peoples are “children”…
Reserves
…workforce. This was partially due to growing competition from new immigrants (some of them willing to perform cheap labour) and to open racism in the hiring process.6 In addition, by…
Sixties Scoop
…list: http://www.fncfcs.com/resources/childwelfareResources.html First Nations Child and Family Services Compensation Process: http://www.fnchildcompensation.ca Reducing the Number of Indigenous Children in Care: https://www.sac-isc.gc.ca/eng/1541187352297/1541187392851 Newspaper articles Dolha, Lloyd. “The Sixties Scoop: How Canada’s “Best…
Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
…The UBCIC was founded in November 1969 when a number of chiefs across British Columbia united in response to the federal government’s proposed “White Paper,” a policy paper in which…
Constitution Express
…of Ottawa came to us and asked us how we were doing and we told her, well, we only had about, we could count the number of billets we’d arranged…
