Aboriginal Title
…leaders and organizations are uncomfortable accepting court definitions of Aboriginal title, and refuse to resolve issues of Aboriginal title using non-Aboriginal systems such as the B.C. Treaty Process. As lawyer…
Reserves
…of private property, and operate on the assumption that the only “solution” to the challenges reserve communities in Canada face is to assimilate into non-Aboriginal “white” society and adopt non-Aboriginal…
Indian Homemakers’ Association of British Columbia
…Indian status to Aboriginal women who had married non-Aboriginal men. Over the next few decades the IHA also worked to support and improve Aboriginal women’s health, self-government initiatives, education, child…
Musqueam Legal History Digital Media Archive
…more about R. v. Guerin R. v. Guerin Media Archive Sparrow Sparrow v. The Queen (1990) was a case involving Aboriginal fishing rights in British Columbia. In 1984, Musqueam Band…
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
…listen to an April 2009 episode of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s program “Awaye!,” about the implications of Australia’s endorsement. United States Read the transcript of President Barack Obama’s statement of…
Aboriginal Rights
…52 (2007): 725-756. Slattery, Brian. “Understanding Aboriginal Rights.” The Canadian Bar. 66 (1987): 727. —– “What are Aboriginal Rights?” CPLE Research Paper, 2007. —– “A Taxonomy of Aboriginal Rights.” In…
Gustafsen Lake
…“largest paramilitary operation in Canadian history.”1 The Gustafsen Lake Stand-off stemmed from the longstanding conflict over Aboriginal land occupied by non-Aboriginal settlers without having first signed treaties. People who came…
The Residential School System (2009)
…of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry of Manitoba. Winnipeg: Public Inquiry into the Administration and Aboriginal People, 1999. This chapter of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry of Manitoba’s report on Aboriginal people…
Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
…UBCIC’s philosophy. During his term from 1979-1981, Manuel began to hire and train Aboriginal staff to build capacity and sustainability amongst Aboriginal communities instead of hiring outside non-Aboriginal “experts.”10 The…
Global Actions
…UK: Ashgate Dartmouth, 2003. ———. Indigenous Peoples in International Law. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Beier, J. Marshall, ed. Indigenous Diplomacies. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009….