The Residential School System
…today. The term Indigenous Peoples can also be found in UBC’s Indigenous Peoples Language Guidelines . In this section: What Were Residential Schools? What Led to the Residential Schools? Living…
The Residential School System
…today. The term Indigenous Peoples can also be found in UBC’s Indigenous Peoples Language Guidelines . In this section: What Were Residential Schools? What Led to the Residential Schools? Living…
The Residential School System (2009)
…was infamously said, “to kill the Indian in the child.” Today, we recognize that this policy of assimilation was wrong, has caused great harm, and has no place in our…
Reserves
…schools and the “Sixties Scoop,” has contributed to the situation that many reserves find themselves in today. Nonetheless, as Cole Harris has observed, despite the radical changes brought by the…
Aboriginal Identity & the Classroom
…Today project. Although the initial context of this paper was written with a classroom context in mind, we strongly recommend it as foundational reading for understanding the complexities of Aboriginal…
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
…to be free from discrimination, and the right to a nationality. Read the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples here. Significantly, in Article 3 the UNDRIP recognizes Indigenous…
Government Policy
…to develop an understanding of the relationship between the Canadian government and Aboriginal peoples, and how government policy continues to be an invasive force on Aboriginal peoples today, we recommend…
Totem Poles
…neighbouring groups who had unpaid debts. Shame poles were more common in the nineteenth century, but today, some First Nations erect these poles as a form of protest against the…
Marginalization of Aboriginal women
…a relatively short time. These impacts continue to be felt by Aboriginal women across Canada today. Aboriginal Women’s Traditional Roles & Power Women were respected for their spiritual and mental…
Sixties Scoop
…their homes and placed, in most cases, into middle-class Euro-Canadian families. This overrepresentation continues today. An epidemic of Aboriginal child apprehension The government began phasing out compulsory residential school education…
