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 these…
About Sovereignty Performance
…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 covers…
The Residential School System
…Inuit, or alternatively Indigenous Peoples, in the plural, following the guidelines of the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the most widely accepted international instrument today. The term…

The Residential School System
…Inuit, or alternatively Indigenous Peoples, in the plural, following the guidelines of the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the most widely accepted international instrument today. The term…
Terminology
…groups. It is most frequently used in an international, transnational, or global context. This term came into wide usage during the 1970s when Aboriginal groups organized transnationally and pushed for…
Community & Politics
…garnered international attention and continued on to New York, London, and Geneva. The Constitution Express was ultimately successful, resulting in the inclusion of Aboriginal peoples in the constitution. The Gustafsen…
Constitution Act, 1982 Section 35
…constitution.4 It took two years and the raising of concerns before an international audience, including the United Nations and the British Parliament, before the Canadian government finally agreed to include…
Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
…UBCIC was founded in November 1969 when a number of chiefs across British Columbia united in response to the federal government’s proposed “White Paper,” a policy paper in which the…
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…
The Residential School System (2009)
…child apprehensions from Aboriginal families continue to occur in disproportionate numbers. In part, this is the legacy of compromised families and communities left by the residential schools. The last residential…