Sparrow Case
…burden of justifying any legislation that has some negative effect on any aboriginal right protected under s. 35(1). R. v. Sparrow, [1990] 1 S.C.R. 1075 The Sparrow Test The Court’s…
Aboriginal Identity & the Classroom
…Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood, Vancouver/Toronto: UBC Press, 2004: pp. 105-119, and our sections on the Indian Act and the residential school system. 2 Tracey…
Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
…Indian Chiefs – 20 Years of Struggle for Aboriginal Rights,” 1989. 3. 6 Tennant, 178. 7 Manuel. 8 Tennant, 179. 9 Manuel. 10 Manuel, 11. 11 UBCIC, “A New Relationship.”…
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…
About Sovereignty Performance
Interview with Jordan Bennett Can you please introduce yourself? Where you are from? My name is Jordan Bennett, I am a Visual Artist of Mi’kmaq and french descent…
About Jaime Black
(c) 2010 Jaime Black, The REDress Project. Photo: Malay Pilz. Jaime Black is an emerging, metis multidisciplinary artist based in Winnipeg. She studied English Literature at the…
Métis
The term Métis refers to a collective of cultures and ethnic identities that resulted from unions between Aboriginal and European people in what is now Canada. Métis stems…
Ipperwash Crisis
During World War II, the federal government decided to build a military camp on reserve land occupied by the Stony Point First Nation and located in Ipperwash Provincial…
UBC Dialogue: Nov 1, 2011
On November 1, 2011, in collaboration with the Indian Residential School Survivors Society, the First Nations House of Learning at UBC hosted a day-long Dialogue on the History…
Constitution Act, 1982 Section 35
…Years of Section 35. Vancouver: Theytus, 2003. 10. 9 Borrows, “Measuring a Work in Progress: Canada, Constitutionalism, Citizenship and Aboriginal Peoples.” In Walkem and Bruce, 225. 10 Borrows, 225-6….
