Global Actions
…groups worldwide. Recommended resources Anaya, S. James. International Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples. Austin: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, 2009. This recent volume presents Indigenous rights in an international legal…
About Indigenous Foundations
…related to Aboriginal peoples, histories, politics and cultures. This has been documented in the project What I Learned In Class Today. Indigenous Foundations has been developed by First Nations and…
Guide Pages
…Guide Pages are a way for people such a course instructors to organize approaches to the materials in Indigenous Foundations for specific uses, such as preparation for class discussions…
VideoTest
…This is a test page for the What I Learned In Class Today IVT implementation. Here are some test links: Session 4, Page 10 To load some sample…
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…
Constitution Act, 1982 Section 35
…exercising what they understand as their Aboriginal rights, such as hunting or fishing: Although s.35 guides court and government decisions that directly impact Indigenous Peoples, there remain a considerable number…
Community & Politics
…innocent 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…
Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
…The 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…
Constitution Express
…of Ottawa came to us and asked us how we were doing and we told her, well, we only had about, we could count the number of billets we’d arranged…
