Cedar
…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 Time…
Musqueam Legal History Digital Media Archive
…and instead appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada. In 1999, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in favour of the leaseholders and reaffirmed the original ruling that Aboriginal title…
Berger Inquiry
…lands. Justice Morrow of the Supreme Court of the NWT was asked to rule on whether the caveat could be filed. Justice Morrow took his court to small communities across…
About Indigenous Foundations
…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 Indigenous…
Welcome to Indigenous Foundations
Welcome to Indigenous Foundations, an information resource on key topics relating to the histories, politics, and cultures of the Aboriginal peoples of Canada. This website was developed to support students…
Glossary
…& Politics Constitution Act, 1982 Section 35 Constitution Express Cultural Production of the Northwest Coast Culture Enfranchisement George Manuel Global Actions Global Indigenous Issues Governance and Land Claims Government Policy…
About Nicholas Galanin
…Arts. Valuing his culture as highly as his individuality, Galanin has created an unusual path for himself. He deftly navigates “the politics of cultural representation”, as he balances both ends…
Artistic Expressions
…foreground and background, light and shadow, lace curtains and branches of trees, our representations of our worlds should be thick with meaning. It has become too easy for the powers-that-be…
Powley Case
…original ruling. The Crown then appealed this loss, but the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld the previous two rulings. Finally, the Crown appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada and…
Guerin Case
…however, appealed this ruling and the compensation was repealed. Musqueam in turn appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada. In 1984, the Supreme Court ruled in Musqueam’s favour and re-instated…
