The White Paper 1969
…the Indian Act would “enable the Indian people to be free—free to develop Indian cultures in an environment of legal, social and economic equality with other Canadians.” To this end,…
Totem Poles
…groups who had unpaid debts. Shame poles were more common in the nineteenth century, but today, some First Nations erect these poles as a form of protest against the loss…
Métis
…Free People—Otipemisiwak,” Batoche, Saskatchewan, 1870–1930. Ottawa: National Historical Parks and Sites, Canada Parks Service, 1990. Peterson, Jacqueline, and Jennifer Brown, eds. The New Peoples: Being and Becoming Métis in North…
Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…“Returning to Selective Fishing,” 447. 16 Newell, Tangled Webs, 54 17 Newell, Tangled Webs, 53, 77. 18 Newell, Tangled Webs, 54 19 Newell, Tangled Webs, 86, 109 20 Newell, Tangled…
Marginalization of Aboriginal women
…where these two types of relations intersect, and where they diverge. As non-Aboriginal settlers first arrived in what is now Canada, they brought with them their patriarchal social codes and…
Government Policy
…develop an understanding of the relationship between the Canadian government and Aboriginal peoples, and how government policy continues to be an invasive force on Aboriginal peoples today, we recommend the…
Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
…Council of the United Nations. Since its inception, the UBCIC has established several publications, including its newspaper NESIKA, the UBCIC News, and Indian World. These publications along with frequent bulletins…
The Indian Act
…it authorizes the Canadian federal government to regulate and administer in the affairs and day-to-day lives of registered Indians and reserve communities. This authority has ranged from overarching political control,…
Sixties Scoop
…http://www.fact.on.ca/news/news0212/gm021221a.htm Lyons, Tom. “For more than 20 years, Canada took native children from their homes and placed them with white families. Now a lost generation want its history back.” http://www.cuckoografik.org/trained_tales/orp_pages/news/news5.html…
Oral Traditions
…a lesson in a new light, among other reasons. Through multiple tellings, a story is fleshed out, creating a broader, more comprehensive narrative. Should listeners ever recount the narrative elsewhere,…
