Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…of providing food for themselves but not for sale, barter or traffic, by any means other than with drift nets, or spearing.” The increasing non-Aboriginal interest in the fisheries, particularly…
Indian Status
…to participate in band politics, and ineligible for the same rights and various types of government support offered to status Indians. However, status and non-status Indians also share many common…
Aboriginal Identity & the Classroom
…the historical and social contexts be accompanied by an awareness of how individuals interpret this information and position themselves in relation to it. Both students and instructors, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal,…
Marginalization of Aboriginal women
…many “did have close family ties and well-established social networks and had suddenly disappeared nonetheless.”21 This exchange illustrates the invisibility of Aboriginal women as persons, particularly those affiliated with prostitution,…
Aboriginal Identity & Terminology
…in other contexts, such as in speaking to people from other communities, or people from other non-Indigenous cultural backgrounds. Many people also use terms such as “Indian” or “Native American”…
Bill C-31
…to control their own band membership as a step towards self-government. Indian status – gender discrimination Under the Indian Act, an Indian woman who married a non-Indian man (whether non-Aboriginal…
Reserves
…should be converted into fee simple, or privately-owned, lands. Those who do not agree with this approach point out that this proposal, frequently made by non-Aboriginal Canadians, is based on…
Métis
…infringed upon their rights and title, particularly as they waited for scrip while watching non-Métis settle on what they viewed as their land. Many Métis simply left Manitoba for Saskatchewan…
Sixties Scoop
…unsuitable to care for them. This transition to provincial services led to a 1951 amendment that enabled the Province to provide services to Aboriginal people where none existed federally. Child…
The Indian Act
…role in distribution of wealth. Non-native colonists and missionaries saw the sharing of wealth and food at potlatches as excessive and wasteful, but ultimately they knew how integral it was…
