The Residential School System
…best they could given the circumstances. But even these “good” experiences occurred within a system aimed at destroying Indigenous cultures and assimilating Indigenous students. The Shift Away from Residential Schools…
Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
…Chiefs‘ Council. Each member of the Executive Committee serves a term of three years.3 The UBCIC holds an Annual General Meeting (AGM) every year in which each member band is…
About Indigenous Foundations
…Indigenous Foundations. First Nations and Indigenous Studies UBC, 2009. Website. [Date accessed]. Chicago format Foot/endnote: 1. Author surname, first name. “Article name”. Indigenous Foundations. indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca. (accessed Month, day, year). Bibliography:…
Métis
…developed. In recent years, partially due to the Métis rights case R. v. Powley, the word Métis has shifted from referring to a single cultural identity produced by European-Aboriginal intermarriage…
The Residential School System (2009)
…memories of their time at residential schools, and certainly some of the priests and nuns who ran the schools treated the students as best they could given the circumstances. But…
About Nicholas Galanin
…ends of the aesthetic spectrum. With a fiercely independent spirit, Galanin has found the best of both worlds and has given them back to his audience in stunning form. Official…
Berger Inquiry
…across southern Canada so that all Canadians could express their views. The Report The Inquiry’s final report was released on May 9, 1977. It was an instant best seller, with…
About the REDress project
…of trial and error, which materials best work physically and aesthetically to convey an idea. Who or what inspires you? I am inspired by all the artists, all the women,…
Aboriginal Identity & the Classroom
…order to facilitate assimilation into the colonial mainstream. Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their homes and communities and made to live the majority of the year in these schools…
Government Policy
…Report for the year ended 30th June, 1876 (Parliament, Sessional Papers, No. 11, 1877), p. xiv. The history of government policy is not strictly a unilateral, top-down relationship—Aboriginal peoples have…
