Aboriginal Rights
…Aboriginal Women 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…
Calder Case
…der Peet: Aboriginal Rights and Canadian Law, 1973-96.” Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Australia, Canada, & New Zealand. Havemann, Paul, Ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. 428-445. Foster, Hamar, Heather Raven…
Powley Case
…historic 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…
Bill C-31
…United 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…
Royal Proclamation, 1763
…Proclamation of 1763 to Constitutionally Entrenched Aboriginal Rights.” In Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, Paul Havemann [Ed.]. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1999. 351-377. Hutchings, Patricia Margaret,…
The Residential School System (2009)
…met with a range of responses. Some people felt that it marked a new era of positive federal government–Aboriginal relations based on mutual respect, while others felt that the apology…
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,…
Musqueam Legal History Digital Media Archive
…This land includes the University of British Columbia Golf Course lands, the Bridgeport Casino lands and two parcels of land from the Pacific Spirit Regional Park. University lands Media Archive…
Gustafsen Lake
…Glavin, Terry. “How the Circus Came to Gustafsen Lake,” in The Albion Monitor. 14 November 1995. Also found in This Ragged Place: Travels Across Landscape. Vancouver: New Star Books, 1996….
Global Indigenous Issues
…the United Nations (UN), which has responded to these groups by creating new bodies and policies to support Indigenous peoples worldwide. Early attempts to recognize the rights of Indigenous peoples…
