The Residential School System (2009)
…country. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, official apology, June 11, 2008 What was the Indian residential school system? The term residential schools refers to an extensive school system set up by…
George Manuel
…George Manuel (1921-1989) was an Aboriginal political leader in Canada who held a number of influential roles throughout his career. George Manuel was born February 17, 1921, a member…
Musqueam Legal History Digital Media Archive
…Musqueam Legal History — A Digital Media Archive The Musqueam Indian Band has been involved in a number of precedent-setting legal battles over the past few decades. Four of…
About Sovereignty Performance
…large number of people that came by, hung out and even took part. I was even interviewed and was the front page story in“The Western Star” a local newspaper that…
The White Paper 1969
…Indian Act. This white paper was met with forceful opposition from Aboriginal leaders across the country and sparked a new era of Indigenous political organizing in Canada. What is a…
Indian Homemakers’ Association of British Columbia
…Homemakers’ Clubs across British Columbia were united as the Indian Homemakers’ Association, the first one in the country. Charlie became the Association’s first president, and would go on to lead…
Métis
…Indian Country. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1980. Devine, Heather. The People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis in a Canadian Family, 1660–1900. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2004. Ens, Gerhard. “Dispossession or…
Terminology
…“Aboriginal 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…
Aboriginal Rights
…on a case-by-case basis. There have since been a number of court cases that have contributed to this definition. The 1990 R v Sparrow decision, for example, created the “Sparrow…
Aboriginal Title
…resource development in the province declined due to uncertainty over Aboriginal title. A number of First Nations throughout British Columbia had set up roadblocks and other similar protests in desperate…
