About Tsu Heidei Shugaxtutaan
…Artist statement I work with concepts, the medium follows. In the business of this “Indian Art World” I have become impatient with the institutional prescription and its monolithic…
Totem Poles
…deceased wife and children. Starting in the early 1920s, the federal government adopted a policy of salvage anthropology and, fearing the decline of Indigenous art, began to buy out totem…
Sixties Scoop
…University of Saskatchewan. 2004. Available online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-07082008-141746 Walmsley, Christopher. Protecting Aboriginal Children. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2005. Film Richard Cardinal: Cry from the Diary of a Métis…
The Indian Act
…own at UBC’s Xwi7xwa library, Point Grey campus. Union of British Columbian Indian Chiefs, The Indian Act and What it Means. Vancouver: UBCIC, 1988. Available online, courtesy of UBCIC: https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ubcic/pages/1440/attachments/original/1484861468/13_TheIndianAct_WhatItMeans.pdf?1484861468…
The Residential School System
…and associations” of “Indigenous languages, traditions and beliefs,” in order to accomplish “a radical re-socialization” aimed at instilling the children instead with the values of Euro-centric civilization”(Library and Archives Canada,…
Ipperwash Crisis
…1993, members of the Stony Point First Nation began to occupy the land at what was now referred to as “Camp Ipperwash.” In order to assert their claim to the…
Global Indigenous Issues
…which some of these groups have united across political borders and geographic locations, in the face of political opposition and countless other barriers, in order to engage with the international…
The Residential School System
…and associations” of “Indigenous languages, traditions and beliefs,” in order to accomplish “a radical re-socialization” aimed at instilling the children instead with the values of Euro-centric civilization”(Library and Archives Canada,…
