Indian Status
…own membership codes, and thereby determine who can participate in band politics and society, as well as who can access band resources such as band property. Bands, however, did not…
Totem Poles
…the fish and fur trade with Europeans. During this time, coastal First Nations acquired new tools that enabled them to construct more elaborate poles. Most poles, even though they are…
Royal Proclamation, 1763
…Freedoms guarantees that nothing can terminate or diminish the Aboriginal rights outlined in the Proclamation. The Royal Proclamation also applied to the United States; however, American independence from Great Britain…
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…
Constitution Express
UBCIC News, April, 1981. Click to visit UBCIC’s Constitution Express Digital Collection. The Constitution Express was a movement organized in 1980 and 1981 to protest the lack of recognition of…
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
…of Aboriginal peoples and uniformly making them legally wards of the state. Systems of control that had been established in prior legislation were now newly defined under one act, the…
Aboriginal Identity & the Classroom
…way for settlers to take up occupancy of newly “available” lands. Assimilation and dispossession of Aboriginal peoples operate simultaneously in the Indian Act, as they do in other colonial agendas,…
Government Policy
…policy, as the reserve system was created by the government in an attempt to limit Aboriginal peoples’ movement and free up land for arriving settlers. The Residential School System refers…
UBC Dialogue: Nov 1, 2011
…604.822.3811 or visit room 1040 in Brock Hall. Former Residential School Students An Indian residential Schools crisis Line (1.866.925.4419, toll free) is available 24 hours a day for anyone experiencing…