Aboriginal Identity & Terminology
…By understanding how identity is created and defined, one begins to see the implications of these criteria in policy, legislation, and mainstream conceptions, and their impacts on the day-to-day experiences…
Aboriginal Title
…title detracts focus from on-the-ground experiences of how title may or may not be recognized, and how Aboriginal peoples may assert their title in day-to-day experiences.3 As a result, some…
Bands
…administering the Indian Act and policies and programs relating to bands, including disbursement of administrative monies, social service programs, and educational programs; band administration is responsible for the day-to-day functioning…
The Residential School System (2009)
…the days and years to come. Only history will determine the degree of its sincerity. —Kevin McKay, Chair of the Nisga’a Lisims Government, June 12, 2008 In September 2007, while…
Totem Poles
…the emotion of the day: “The repatriation of the G’psgolox totem pole has been a journey of a hundred years and thousands of miles…Our children and future generations will be…
About Nikamowin (Song)
…northern Manitoba. Swampy Cree is our dialect. I was raised there, but am currently living in Winnipeg, after an eleven year hiatus in Vancouver, BC. When creating a new piece,…
The White Paper 1969
…end, the white paper proposed to Eliminate Indian status Dissolve the Department of Indian Affairs within five years Abolish the Indian Act Convert reserve land to private property that can…
Bill C-31
…her children, was no longer entitled to live on reserve, as they no longer had Indian status and could not inherit reserve land. Her band gave her a year to…
Indian Status
…Interior, Annual Report for the year ended 30th June, 1876 (Parliament, Sessional Papers, No. 11, 1877), p. xiv. 3 Aboriginal Rights Coalition, What Have You Heard? Victoria: Aboriginal Rights Coalition,…
Government Policy
…Report for the year ended 30th June, 1876 (Parliament, Sessional Papers, No. 11, 1877), p. xiv. The history of government policy is not strictly a unilateral, top-down relationship—Aboriginal peoples have…
