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…
Indian Status
…band, and their registration number. “Status Indians” are wards of the Canadian federal government, a paternalistic legal relationship that illustrates the historical imperial notion that Aboriginal peoples are “children” requiring…
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…
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…
The White Paper 1969
…Act. This white paper was met with forceful opposition from Aboriginal leaders across the country and sparked a new era of Indigenous political organizing in Canada. What is a white…
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…
About Sovereignty Performance
…all the news of Western Newfoundland, this is where the public reception changed some. There were a mass amount of comments on the Newspapers website, most being negative and ignorant….
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,…
The Residential School System (2009)
…seven generations from now. My ancestors did the same seven generations ago and they tried hard to fight against you because they knew what was happening. They knew what was…
