UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
…rights and in its expression of new and widely supported aspiration…The Declaration acknowledges the distinctive and important status of indigenous peoples, their common historical experiences and the universal spirit that…
Global Actions
…century, policymakers have been obliged to balance individual rights with collective rights through new international instruments. A history of global Indigenous organizations Chief Deskaheh Chief Levi General (1873–1925), now better…
Oral Traditions
…New Mexico Press, 1996. Borrows, John. “Listening for a Change: The Courts and Oral Tradition.” Osgoode Hall Law Journal 39, no. 1 (2001), 1–38. Chamberlain, J. Edward. If This is…
Totem Poles
…New York Times (New York, NY), May 5, 2010. 5 Halpin, 24. 6 Halpin, 23. 7 Hilary Stewart, Cedar (Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre: 1984), 25. 8 Roy Henry Vickers, Spirit…
Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…– as well as at Rivers Inlet, and on Vancouver Island, the Queen Charlottes, and other locations. The growth in new canneries was staggering. In her book Tangled Webs of…
Indian Status
…Endnotes 1 Assembly of First Nations, “The Story,” http://caid.ca/AFNHis2010.pdf Clifton, James A, Ed. The Invented Indian: Cultural Fictions and Government Policy. New Brunswick: Transaction, 1990, 350. 2 Department of the…
The White Paper 1969
…Indian Act. This white paper was met with forceful opposition from Aboriginal leaders across the country and sparked a new era of Indigenous political organizing in Canada. What is a…
Cedar
…say a prayer and express their gratitude to the tree’s spirit. Traditionally, men were responsible for cutting down a tree, which is a time-consuming and laborious process that involves chiselling…
Marginalization of Aboriginal women
…First Nations customary laws allowed for divorces, Indian Agents forbade them. A woman cohabitating with a new partner could be charged with bigamy and sent off to a reformatory, far…
Reserves
…charges. At Sillery in New France (now part of the Canadian province of Quebec), these settlements were created with the intention to encourage Aboriginal peoples to adopt Christianity.1 These first…