About the REDress project
…will later be installed in public spaces throughout Winnipeg and across Canada as a visual reminder of the staggering number of women who are no longer with us. Through the…
Ipperwash Crisis
…a group of approximately 30 members of the band, including a number of children, began their occupation of the park on September 4, 1995. They planned to peacefully occupy the…
Constitution Express
…Vicki L. George for UBCIC & UBC, 2007. 14 Interview with Ron George. The Constitution Express: A Multimedia History. 15 UBCIC, UBCIC Bulletin, Oct 1981. 16 Manuel. 17 Smith, Melvin….
Terminology
…peoples” (plural) indicates a number of separate Aboriginal populations. To capitalize or to not capitalize? There is no official consensus on when to capitalize certain terms. Some people consider capitalization…
Community & Politics
…man. Political Figures George Manuel was a prominent political leader who held a number of influential roles in his career, including chief of the Neskonlith Indian Band of the Shuswap…
Constitution Act, 1982 Section 35
…Dir. Maurice Bulbulian. National Film Board of Canada, 1987. Endnotes s Juristocracy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 196. 3 R. v Sparrow, [1990] 1 S.C.R. 1075. Accessed online:https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/609/index.do 4 Manuel,…
The Residential School System (2009)
…11 Ibid. 12 Ibid. 13 Milloy, xvii. 14 Canada, 344-353. 15 Dixon, Alvin. Guest lecture. Introduction to First Nations Studies. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. 12 March 2009. 16…
Indian Status
…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, 1991….
Aboriginal Title
…McNeil, Kent. “The Meaning of Aboriginal Title.” In Michael Asch, ed. Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Canada: Essays on Law, Equality, and Respect for Difference. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1997. 135-154….
Aboriginal Rights
…and the Application of the Canadian Charter.” In Thunder in My Soul: A Mohawk Woman Speaks. (Halifax: Fernwood, 1995). 131-151. —– “Constitutional Renovation: New Relations or Continued Colonial Patterns?” In…