Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…capacity of the camp, of the number of children that extended families had, of the number of fishing rocks that were accessible according to the varying levels of the river…
Marginalization of Aboriginal women
…qualified as Indian. The government decided that to be an Indian, one had to be an Indian male, be the child of an Indian male, or be married to an…
Gustafsen Lake
…not reveal that it was in fact their own ERT. The RCMP would phone back once the ERT mission was over, revealing the men as RCMP officers.8 Several other meetings…
Global Actions
…founding organizations, Canada (members of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami and the National Indian Brotherhood), as well as the Saami of Scandinavia. The following year, in 1974, the International Indian Treaty…
UBC Dialogue: Nov 1, 2011
On November 1, 2011, in collaboration with the Indian Residential School Survivors Society, the First Nations House of Learning at UBC hosted a day-long Dialogue on the History and Legacy…
UBC Dialogue: Full Video Record
On November 1, 2011, in collaboration with the Indian Residential School Survivors Society, the First Nations House of Learning at UBC hosted a day-long Dialogue on the History and Legacy…
UBC Dialogue: Full Record
…the Indian Residential Schools Beverly Jacobs (former President of the Native Women’s Association of Canada and Respondent at the Apology in Parliament): The Apology as a political moment; the need…
Reserves
…Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, 1969. Available online via http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/301/inac-ainc/indian_policy-e/cp1969_e.pdf Accessed December 2020. 12 Indian Association of Alberta. Citizens Plus. (“The Red Paper.”) Edmonton: Indian Association of Alberta, 1970….
Totem Poles
…from communities living along the Skeena River. In 1927, Iver Fougner, an Indian Agent in Bella Coola, wrote to the Department of Indian Affairs asking permission for the Swedish Consul…
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
…no. 1 (2010): 96. 6 Sheryl Lightfoot, “A Sea Change on the U.N. Declaration—Or Is It?” Indian Country Today, May 3, 2010. http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/opinion/92499529.html 7 Carwyn Jones, “New Zealand’s Support for…