Reserves
…before the Minister approves of the allotment.” You can read the Indian Act and its regulations over reserves online here: http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/i-5/ . Creation of the reserve system Precursors to the…
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
…the following year. Upon its approval, the draft declaration was sent to the Commission of Human Rights, which established another working group consisting of human rights experts and over 100…
Ipperwash Crisis
…in Canada: Understanding Aboriginal Issues. Second edition. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. 143-153. Lackenbauer, P. Whitney. “Combined Operation: The Appropriation of Stoney Point Reserve and the Creation of Camp…
Van der Peet case
…the Court of Appeal. In 1996, the Supreme Court upheld the Court of Appeal’s finding, ruling that while fishing constitutes an Aboriginal right, the sale of such fish does not….
Aboriginal Rights
…to hunt—but this right does not apply to other Métis groups. (Slattery, Brian. “A Taxonomy of Aboriginal Rights.” In Let Right Be Done: Aboriginal title, the Calder Case, and the…
The Residential School System
…their families. The ‘Scoop’ spanned roughly the two decades it took to phase out the residential schools, but child apprehensions from Indigenous families continue to occur in disproportionate numbers today….
The Residential School System
…their families. The ‘Scoop’ spanned roughly the two decades it took to phase out the residential schools, but child apprehensions from Indigenous families continue to occur in disproportionate numbers today….
Oral Traditions
…elsewhere, they would likely alter it to some degree to reflect their understandings of events and to better apply the story to its present context. In some instances, precision may…
Gustafsen Lake
…to get involved other than as observers. It is now generally recognized that the RCMP’s deployment of approximately 400 officers, along with increased government involvement both provincially and federally, marked…
Aboriginal Identity & the Classroom
…that 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…
