UBC Dialogue: Full Video Record
…information on the Indian Residential School System, see the parent page to this one, The Residential School System. On September 18, 2013, the University of British Columbia suspended classes for…
UBC Dialogue: Full Record
Video Controls TimeCode Chapt ChapterSelect — Chapters — Ceremonial Opening (Evening, Oct 31) Opening Remarks Musqueam welcome; remarks by Linc Kesler, Director of UBC First Nations House of Learning; Musqueam…
Aboriginal Title
…the government.2 The protests disrupted daily operations within the natural resource sector and discouraged businesses from investing in B.C. Motivated primarily by these economic losses, the provincial government created the…
Aboriginal Identity & the Classroom
This section is excerpted from a discussion paper by Karrmen Crey about Aboriginal identity in the classroom. This paper was initially written for the What I Learned in Class Today…
Sixties Scoop
…homes and placed, in most cases, into middle-class Euro-Canadian families. This overrepresentation continues today. An epidemic of Aboriginal child apprehension The government began phasing out compulsory residential school education in…
The Indian Act
…United States, an individual must be able to comply with very distinct standards of government regulation… The Indian Act in Canada, in this respect, is much more than a body…
Indian Status
…other leaders and academics have described the Indian Act as a form of apartheid law.1 Aboriginal peoples in Canada who are classified as “Status Indians” are registered under the Indian…
Reserves
…an asset, and band members generally face difficulty in obtaining mortgages, small business loans, or lines of credit. They also face more restrictions than private owners when it comes to…
About Tsu Heidei Shugaxtutaan
Artist statement I work with concepts, the medium follows. In the business of this “Indian Art World” I have become impatient with the institutional prescription and its monolithic attempt to…
Global Indigenous Issues
From the pre-sessional meeting of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in Bolivia, March 2010. The Permanent Forum is welcomed by the residents of Cota Cota Baja by…