Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…the way, as they usually did, but this time there was one sports fishing boat that refused to move. Charlie’s net became entangled with the other boat’s gear, and a…
Reserves
Indian Reserves In various ways in different parts of [British Columbia], Native life came to be lived in, around, and well beyond these reserves, but wherever one went, if one…
Aboriginal Identity & the Classroom
…has organized contemporary First Nations life in ways that have been almost entirely naturalized, and that governs ways of thinking about Native identity. To date few individuals appear to have…
Gustafsen Lake
…mainstream recollections of British Columbian and Canadian histories. Gustafsen Lake occurred as another militarized stand-off was underway at Ipperwash/Aazhoodena. The Conflict Image from “Showdown at Gustafsen Lake,” First Nations Drum….
Aboriginal Identity & Terminology
…have legal implications that often operate in surprising ways. In this section, we go over the various ways in which Aboriginal peoples in Canada self-identify and are defined by the…
Global Actions
…larger or more dominant settler population. The word Indigenous was adopted by Aboriginal leaders in the 1970s after the emergence of Indigenous rights movements around the world as a way…
Oral Traditions
…be further from the truth. Oral societies record and document their histories in complex and sophisticated ways, including performative practices such as dancing and drumming. Although most oral societies, Aboriginal…
About Nikamowin (Song)
…as important and relevant as the other. It also came from a place where I wanted to explore a new way to engage with language. There have been many technological…
ILO Convention 169
…aspirations of [Indigenous] peoples to exercise control over their own institutions, ways of life and economic development and to maintain and develop their identities, languages and religions, within the framework…
Berger Inquiry
…propose ways to strike a balance between pipeline construction and the protection of the environment and aboriginal rights. The Berger Inquiry Project gives you a way to explore this history…