UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
…13 Stephen Hui, “Throne Speech Offers “Illusion of Support” for U.N. Declaration, First Nations Leader Says,” The Georgia Straight, March 3, 2010, . 14 Ibid. 15 Lightfoot. 16 Ibid. 17…
Sixties Scoop
…of First Nations Children and Youth.” First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada, 2004. Available online at: https://fncaringsociety.com/sites/default/files/docs/KeepingThePromise.pdf Fournier, Suzanne and Ernie Crey. Stolen from Our Embrace. Vancouver:…
Marginalization of Aboriginal women
…women: their politics and political organizing in Vancouver, B.C.” Thesis – M.A., University of British Columbia, 1994. Jacobs, Beverley. “International Law/The Great Law of Peace.” LL.M. thesis, University of Saskatchewan,…
The Residential School System (2009)
…Montgomery, 2006. 119. 2 Roberts, 119. 3 Joseph, Bobby. Guest lecture. Introduction to First Nations Studies. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. 12 March 2009. 4 Haig-Brown, Celia. Resistance and…
Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…http://bcelders.com/Newsletter/Sept06.pdf Butler, Caroline. “Regulating Tradition: Sto:lo Wind Drying and Aboriginal Rights” (M.A. Thesis, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1998).> Claxton, Nicholas Xumthoult, “ ISTÁ SĆIÁNEW, ISTÁ SXOLE: ‘To Fish as…
Global Actions
…Nations (AFN) gives a unified voice to First Nations across Canada, in federal politics as well as on the international stage. The AFN participated in drafting the U.N. Declaration on…
Totem Poles
…example, some Kwakwaka’wakw families of northern Vancouver Island belonging to the Thunderbird Clan will feature a Thunderbird crest and familial legends on their poles. Other common crests among coastal First…
Métis
…has brought a resurgence of academic and legal inquiry into Métis identity and Métis rights. In the same way the Sparrow case has seen First Nations fishing rights grow into…
Oral Traditions
…Xiiem). Indigenous Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body and Spirit. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008. Basso, Keith. Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language among the Western Apache. Albuquerque: University of…
The Indian Act
…system.” Assembly of First Nations, “Assembly of First Nations– The Story.” Available online at: http://caid.ca/AFNHis2010.pdf 10 Cardinal, Harold. The Unjust Society. 2nd ed. Vancouver: Douglas & MacIntyre, 1999. 140….
