About Nicholas Galanin
…approaches to art, he pursues them both in parallel paths. His stunning bodies of work simultaneously preserve his culture and explore new perceptual territory. Galanin studied at the London Guildhall…
Marginalization of Aboriginal women
…Nations customary laws allowed for divorces, Indian Agents forbade them. A woman cohabitating with a new partner could be charged with bigamy and sent off to a reformatory, far from…
Aboriginal Rights
…international law that a European colonial power could claim title to newly discovered territory– Canadian legal and governmental institutions were not set up to address Aboriginal rights. Legal scholar Brian…
Calder Case
…be cited in modern Aboriginal land claims across Canada, as well as internationally in Australia and New Zealand. By Tanisha Salomons Recommended Sources Asch, Michael. “From Calder to Van der…
Powley Case
…time frame qualifier needed a new definition that differed from the “pre-contact” conditions set for Indian rights in Van der Peet or Sparrow. As Métis peoples are a result of…
Royal Proclamation, 1763
…not included within the Limits of Our said Three new Governments, or within the Limits of the Territory granted to the Hudson’s Bay Company, as also all the Lands and…
Bill C-31
…Nations Human Rights Committee. Lovelace, a Maliseet woman from Tobique in New Brunswick, had married an American man and moved away from her reserve community. When the marriage ended some…
Gustafsen Lake
…Lake, some journalists became rightly suspicious. As reporter William Johnson wrote in: Perhaps it’s the old newsman in me, but I’m uneasy about the reporting. Journalists have been kept away…
Sparrow Case
…European settlement in the Lower Mainland, the Musqueam saw their rights to the land and its resources infringed upon as non-Aboriginal fishers took increasing control of the fishing industry. New…
Van der Peet case
…Rights and Canadian Law, 1973-96.” In Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Australia, Canada, & New Zealand, edited by Paul Havemann. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999: 428-445. Barsh, Russel Lawrence and James…