Van der Peet case
…& Tanisha Salomons Recommended resources Supreme Court of Canada, R. v. Van der Peet, [1996] 2 S.C.R. 507. Available online: https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/1407/index.do Asch, Michael. “From Calder to Van der Peet: Aboriginal…
About Nikamowin (Song)
…Manitoba. Swampy Cree is our dialect. I was raised there, but am currently living in Winnipeg, after an eleven year hiatus in Vancouver, BC. When creating a new piece, which…
About Indigenous Foundations
…use this image courtesy UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada. It was photographed by Kyla Bailey, and is object Nb3.1485 in the museum’s collection. This paddle was chosen in part…
Identity
…who determines identity, and how the government has managed to regulate Aboriginal identity in Canada, and focuses in particular on questions of authenticity: as identity is regulated and negotiated, questions…
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 Sen’ákw. In…
Land & Rights
…the court was evenly split on whether or not title continued to exist. This significant case would pave hte way for addressing Aboriginal title in Canada. R v Guerin [1984]…
Governance and Land Claims
…and associated governance issues. British Columbia is unusual in Canada in having very few historical treaties. Canadian courts at the close of the 20th century have recognized what First Nations…
ILO Convention 107
…as citizenship and the vote in nations where these rights were absent (Aboriginal peoples in Canada did not receive the franchise until 1960). It also recommended vocational training to help…
Klamath Termination
…while the White Paper successfully resisted in Canada, the Klamath termination and the other terminations that accompanied it, serve as a clear example of the effects of policies that move…
Video Resources
…communities related to them (British Columbia is distinguished in Canada in having relatively few treaties and therefore little legal surrender of rights). The eighteen speakers in the archive include First…
