Marginalization of Aboriginal women
…country with the goal of assimilating and “civilizing” First Nations peoples based on a European model. These policies had profound effects on Aboriginal women across the country. By outlining these…
Sixties Scoop
…protection was one of these areas.2 In 1951, twenty-nine Aboriginal children were in provincial care in British Columbia; by 1964, that number was 1,466. Aboriginal children, who had comprised only…
Aboriginal Identity & Terminology
…to derive from the European misapplication of a place term in the Nuu-chah-hulth language). People who locate themselves in this manner may not have any affinity or use for terms…
Aboriginal Rights
…practiced and enjoyed since before European contact. Because each First Nation has historically functioned as a distinct society, there is no one official overarching Indigenous definition of what these rights…
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,…
Métis
…The term Métis refers to a collective of cultures and ethnic identities that resulted from unions between Aboriginal and European people in what is now Canada. Métis stems from…
The Residential School System
…the mission system in the 1600s. The churches and European settlers brought with them the assumption that their own civilization was the pinnacle of human achievement. They interpreted the socio-cultural…
The Residential School System (2009)
…damage done by the residential school system. In spite of this and other apologies, however, the effects remain. What led to the residential schools? European settlers in Canada brought with…
Reserves
…to further the colonial agenda of assimilation, in time this objective competed with others, such as facilitating European settlement. As a result, reserves were typically created in isolated areas away…