UBC Dialogue: Full Record
…Burning): Participants leave by Ceremonial Door Observations by Participants (following event) On November 1, 2011, in collaboration with the Indian Residential School Survivors Society, the First Nations House of Learning…
Video Resources
Indigenous Foundations contains several video archives. Many are presented through the First Nations Studies Program’s Interactive Video / Transcript Viewer (IVT) that allows you to view video and…
ILO Convention 107
What is the International Labour Organization Convention 107 (1957)? Indigenous and Tribal Populations Convention, 1957 (No. 107) of the International Labour Organization (ILO) is an international instrument adopted…
Indian Status
…Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, “The Indian Act,” in The Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal peoples,…
Van der Peet case
R. v. Van der Peet [1996] The Van der Peet case was pivotal in further defining Aboriginal rights as outlined in Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982….
Welcome to Indigenous Foundations
…Indian Residential Schools. On November 1, 2011 the UBC First Nations House of Learning, in collaboration with the Indian Residential School Survivors Society, hosted a day-long event addressing the history…
Land & Rights
I’m speaking for Okanagan Indigenous peoples in terms of the way we think about land. We never have ever thought of it, I don’t think, as anything static….
Calder Case
…& Jeremy Webber. Let Right Be Done: Aboriginal Title, the Calder Case, and the Future of Indigenous Rights. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007. Kulchyski, Peter. “Calder,” in Unjust Relations: Aboriginal Rights…
Mapping Tool: Kitsilano Reserve
False Creek, in what is now Vancouver, British Columbia, was the site of an ancient village known in the Musqueam language, hən’q’emin’əm’, as sən’a?qw and in Skwxwú7mesh as…
Government Policy
This painting depicts the drafting of the British North America Act in 1866. Painted in 1899 by John David Kelly. (c) 2007 Library and Archives Canada. Image…