Aboriginal Identity & Terminology
…can change rapidly, changing the name of a building or established program often may only cause confusion or weaken its recognized identity without much functional gain. Similarly, documents written at…
Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…blowflies and wasps. 4 Despite government intervention, and changes in technology to fishing by boat with gill nets, the practice of wind-drying continues to this day among some Stó:lō families,…
Bill C-31
…Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women’s groups to pressure the Canadian government to change the law. This action was catelysed when Sandra Lovelace took her case challenging the Indian Act to the…
The Residential School System
…relations based on mutual respect, while many others felt that the apology was merely symbolic and doubted that it would change the government’s relationship with Indigenous Peoples. Although apologies and…
The Residential School System (2009)
…was merely symbolic and doubted that it would change the government’s relationship with Aboriginal peoples. Although the apologies and acknowledgements made by governments and churches are important steps forward in…
About the REDress project
…in Kamloops in October 2011 and the university of Alberta in march 2012. Did the location’s context change or influence the piece (if at all)? The university is not a…
Video Resources
…Other Oregon tribes, and some in the midwest, suffered a similar fate through a policy that was generally known as Termination. This archive explores their experience of that change and…
The Residential School System
…relations based on mutual respect, while many others felt that the apology was merely symbolic and doubted that it would change the government’s relationship with Indigenous Peoples. Although apologies and…
Aboriginal Identity & the Classroom
…introduced new definitions of Indian status called 6(1) and 6(2), which did not change the logic of Indian status but only deferred the “bleeding off” of status by a generation….
Aboriginal Title
…The concept of extinguishment has always been controversial as many Aboriginal people believe their rights are inalienable. Many First Nations leaders and community members have helped the government change their…
