UBC Dialogue: Full Record
…History of the Indian Residential Schools Beverly Jacobs (former President of the Native Women’s Association of Canada and Respondent at the Apology in Parliament): The Apology as a political moment;…
About Sovereignty Performance
…including: being selected for the National Artist Program at the Canada Winter Games in Whitehorse, Yukon, in 2007; winning the Memorial University Medallion for Academic Excellence in Visual Arts; being…
Community & Politics
…There are many other influential Aboriginal political organizations in Canada that we have not yet profiled on Indigenous Foundations. This list is by no means definitive. Some of these organizations…
About the REDress project
…that 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…
Ipperwash Crisis
…in Canada: Understanding Aboriginal Issues. Second edition. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. 143-153. Lackenbauer, P. Whitney. “Combined Operation: The Appropriation of Stoney Point Reserve and the Creation of Camp…
Indian Homemakers’ Association of British Columbia
…Aboriginal peoples. Beginning in the 1930s, the Department of Indian Affairs (DIA) provided small grants to fund homemakers’ clubs on reserves across Canada. These were clubs where women would gather…
Berger Inquiry
…natural gas in the Delta to justify the pipeline’s construction. Canada Today/Aujourd’hui, Volume 8, #5, Canadian Embassy, Washington, DC, 1977. (Click image for a larger version) Within the same period,…
Cedar
…resources Videos “Bill Reid” – National Film Board of Canada. https://www.nfb.ca/film/bill_reid/ “Importance of Cedar” – SFU Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. https://swswlibrary.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/importance-of-cedar.docx Images and online exhibits “Cedar: A Journey into…
Totem Poles
…ever to be repatriated from overseas,” Ecotrust Canada, https://www.terracestandard.com/news/highway-of-tears-memorial-totem-pole-to-be-raised-on-kitsumkalum-territory-west-of-terrace/(accessed 22 December 2020). 17 “Totem: The Return of the G’psgolox Pole- Film Description,” National Film Board of Canada, https://www.nfb.ca/film/totem_the_return_of_the_gpsgolox_pole/ (accessed 22…
Gustafsen Lake
…officer. Those arrested attempted to appeal their charges to the Supreme Court of Canada to no avail. Splitting the Sky was not among those charged. A few hunting rifles had…
