The Residential School System
By Erin Hanson (2009), with updates and revisions by Daniel P. Gamez & Alexa Manuel (September 2020). The original version of this article has been archived, but may…
Musqueam Legal History Digital Media Archive
…This land includes the University of British Columbia Golf Course lands, the Bridgeport Casino lands and two parcels of land from the Pacific Spirit Regional Park. University lands Media Archive…
Aboriginal Title
…with the First Nations’ interests in mind (Simon v the Queen [1985]). Important Court Decisions regarding Aboriginal Title: St. Catherine’s Milling and Lumber Co. v the Queen [1888] was a…
The White Paper 1969
…2 vols. Ottawa: Queen’s Printer Press, 1966–1967. Available online: http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/ai/arp/ls/phi-eng.asp Weaver, Sally. “The Hawthorn Report: Its Use in the Making of Canadian Indian Policy.” In Anthropology, Public Policy and Native…
Guerin Case
…Constitution. By Tanisha Salomons & Erin Hanson Recommended Resources Supreme Court of Canada, Guerin v. The Queen, [1984] 2 S.C.R. 335. Available online: https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/2495/index.do Musqueam Band. “Musqueam Day 2020.” https://www.musqueam.bc.ca/musqueam-day-2020/…
Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…– as well as at Rivers Inlet, and on Vancouver Island, the Queen Charlottes, and other locations. The growth in new canneries was staggering. In her book Tangled Webs of…
Marginalization of Aboriginal women
A Brief History of the Marginalization of Aboriginal Women in Canada Aboriginal women in Canada frequently experience challenges and discrimination that are not necessarily shared by non-Aboriginal women,…
Oral Traditions
…nugatory” any rights that they have (Simon v. The Queen, [1985] 2 S.C.R. 387, at p. 408). This process must be undertaken on a case-by-case basis. After Delgamuukw, a number…