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UBC Dialogue: Nov 1, 2011
…call 604.822.3811 or visit room 1040 in Brock Hall. Former Residential School Students An Indian residential Schools crisis Line (1.866.925.4419, toll free) is available 24 hours a day for anyone…
UBC Dialogue: Full Video Record
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UBC Dialogue: Full Record
…with Aboriginal communities. To book an appointment call 604.822.3811 or visit room 1040 in Brock Hall. Former Residential School Students An Indian residential Schools crisis Line (1.866.925.4419, toll free) is…
Bands
…Aboriginal Peoples, 1996. Canada. The Indian Act (An Act Respecting Indians.) R.S., 1951, c. I-5. Available online at: http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/i-5/ Endnotes 1 The Indian Act’s definition is as follows: “band” means…
Indian Homemakers’ Association of British Columbia
…Barkaskas, Patricia. The Indian Voice: Centering Women in the Gendered Politics of Indigenous Nationalism in BC, 1969-1984. MA Thesis. Vancouver: University of British Columbia, 2009. Available online via UBC cIRcle:…
The Residential School System
…responsibility—became the primary means to this end. Canadian Prime Minister John A. Macdonald commissioned journalist and politician Nicholas Flood Davin to study industrial schools for Indigenous children in the United…
About Jordan Bennett
…Biography I am a multi-disciplinary visual artist of Mi’kmaq decent who calls the west coast of Newfoundland home. My work is derived from a combination of popular and traditional…
Oral Traditions
…Your Land, Where are Your Stories?: Finding Common Ground. Toronto: A.A. Knopf Canada, 2003. Cruikshank, Julie. Do Glaciers Listen?: Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters and Social Imagination. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005….
The Residential School System
…responsibility—became the primary means to this end. Canadian Prime Minister John A. Macdonald commissioned journalist and politician Nicholas Flood Davin to study industrial schools for Indigenous children in the United…
