About Indigenous Foundations
…doing so, the website seeks to illustrate the relationships between different subjects, and investigate a way of thinking about historical and conceptual relationships in ways that are fundamental to the…
The Residential School System (2009)
…Christian ways of living and assimilating them into mainstream Canadian society. The residential school system operated from the 1880s into the closing decades of the 20th century. The system forcibly…
Land & Rights
I’m speaking for Okanagan Indigenous peoples in terms of the way we think about land. We never have ever thought of it, I don’t think, as anything static. As anything…
Klamath Termination
…functions of life on the reservation before termination as a way of understanding and assessing cultural change, what was lost and, in some respects, with great effort, regained. Participants describe…
Guide Pages
Guide Pages are a way for people such a course instructors to organize approaches to the materials in Indigenous Foundations for specific uses, such as preparation for class discussions or…
UBC Dialogue: Full Record
…a way to understand cultural safety; international on-line learning Dr Leonie Sandercock (UBC School of Community and Regional Planning): The Cheslatta & Burns Lake project; using film to develop dialogue;…
Special Projects
…that explore some topics in special ways, or explore them more intensively. This section, Special Projects, contains some of this material. The first Special Project included here is an exploration…
The Residential School System
…Schools The Shift Away from the Residential School System Ongoing Impacts Survivors Demand Justice Recommended Resources What Were Residential Schools? Children’s dining room, Indian Residential School, Edmonton, Alberta. Between 1925-1936….
ILO Convention 107
…toward Indigenous peoples. However, these instruments remain important tools for achieving recognition and protection of Aboriginal rights, and paved the way for the adoption, in 2007, of the U.N. Declaration…
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
…of heart this way: New Zealand Read New Zealand’s official statement of support, from April 20, 2010, here. Read New Zealand Parliament’s Question and Answer Period regarding the UNDRIP here….
