Sixties Scoop
…the Aboriginal Committee. Community Panel of Family and Children’s Services Legislation Review in British Columbia. Victoria: Minister of Social Services, 1992. Endnotes 1 Johnston, Patrick. Personal email communication with Raven…
Métis
…Learn Michif. http://www.learnmichif.com An excellent, thorough website to learn about the Métis language Michif, as well as Métis cultures, history, and contemporary politics. Metis Culture and Heritage Resource Centre: http://www.metisresourcecentre.mb.ca/…
Gustafsen Lake
…RCMP cut off all communications to the camp.9 The RCMP had set up a public media centre in nearby 100 Mile House, where they issued press releases and updated the…
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
…four countries share very similar colonial histories and, as a result, have common concerns. Each nation argued that the level of autonomy recognized for Indigenous peoples in the UNDRIP was…
Powley Case
…on Métis issues and has expanded popular thought about Métis from being limited to Red River Métis to understanding that Métis communities exist elsewhere—the Powleys being from Sault Ste Marie,…
Totem Poles
…Ellen Neel (Kwakwaka’wakw) and Bill Reid (Haida), who all have works exhibited at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC and some at the Royal B.C. Museum in Victoria.15 Other First…
Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…by Cedar, Living by the River. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1999. 232. BC Elders Communication Centre Society, “Elders’ Voice,” Volume 6 Issue 10, September 2006, 11. Available online at:…
Ipperwash Crisis
…its use as a burial ground. The government eventually expropriated the land under the War Measures Act, and compensated the Stony Point First Nation at $15 an acre. At the…
Reserves
…system itself.10 A reserve can provide a community in which Aboriginal people feel free to practice their cultures and customs, live close to their extended families, and raise their children…
Cedar
…Time Memorial” SFU Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. https://swswlibrary.com/culture-and-history/a-journey-into-time-immemorial/ “Thunderbird Park” Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria, B.C. https://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/exhibits/tbird-park/main.htm?lang=eng Books & Articles McMillan, Alan D., and Eldon Yellowhorn. First Peoples in…
