Land & Rights
…rights are collective rights which flow from Aboriginal peoples’ continued use and occupation of certain areas. They are inherent rights which Aboriginal peoples have practiced and enjoyed since before European…
Guide Pages
…a viewer should pop up showing both the video and a linked transcript, and the video should begin to play (it sometimes takes a minute). Because the IVT uses a…
Global Actions
…Indigenous Peoples and Forests. Photo by Broddi Sigurdarson, January 2011. (c) 2011 UNPFII. Photo used with permission from UNPFII. Under international law, there is no official definition of Indigenous, although…
Ipperwash Crisis
…use as a burial ground. The government eventually expropriated the land under the War Measures Act, and compensated the Stony Point First Nation at $15 an acre. At the time,…
Van der Peet case
…people to fish solely for the purposes of sustenance and ceremonial use, and prohibited the sale of fish to non-Aboriginal people. Van der Peet challenged the charges, arguing that as…
The Indian Act
…the passing down of our oral history. It prevented the passing down of our values. It meant an interruption of the respected forms of government that we used to have,…
The Residential School System (2009)
…Many were discouraged from pursuing further education. Abuse at the schools was widespread: emotional and psychological abuse was constant, physical abuse was meted out as punishment, and sexual abuse was…
The White Paper 1969
In spite of all government attempts to convince Indians to accept the white paper, their efforts will fail, because Indians understand that the path outlined by the Department of Indian…
Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
…has consistently opposed the federal government’s “comprehensive claims” and “modern treaty-making” processes because they require that we surrender our Aboriginal Title and Rights in order to settle the land question….
