Sixties Scoop
…http://www.fncfcs.com/resources/childwelfareResources.html First Nations Child and Family Services Compensation Process: http://www.fnchildcompensation.ca Reducing the Number of Indigenous Children in Care: https://www.sac-isc.gc.ca/eng/1541187352297/1541187392851 Newspaper articles Dolha, Lloyd. “The Sixties Scoop: How Canada’s “Best Intentions”…
MΓ©tis
…The Powley test has ten components that examine whether the proposed right is a practice integral to Métis culture, whether the community it is connected to is Métis, what the…
Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…sidestep important questions of Indigenous rights, Indigenous economies, and Indigenous histories (including the history of Indigenous-settler relations in the fisheries). Indigenous peoples are not “stakeholders;” they have conducted their traditional…
Totem Poles
…tree is felled, the wood is debarked and shaped using implements such as adzes, axes, chisels, carving knives, and chainsaws. Other artists argue that technological innovation is an important part…
Ipperwash Crisis
…of the Ipperwash Inquiry, here: http://www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca/inquiries/ipperwash/report/index.html Amnesty International, The Ipperwash Crisis. https://www.amnesty.ca/legal-brief/ipperwash-inquiry CBC News, The Ipperwash Inquiry. https://www.cbc.ca/news2/background/ipperwash/ Ontario Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs, “The Report of the Ipperwash Inquiry: A…
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
…119. 2 United Nations, “History (brief).” https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/unpfii-sessions-2.html 3 Henderson, 70. 4 Ibid. 5 Lightfoot, “Emerging International Indigenous Rights Norms and ‘Over-compliance’ in New Zealand and Canada,” Political Science vol. 62,…
Powley Case
…way that the Van der Peet test is employed in defining Aboriginal (Indian) rights. Once a right is identified, The Powley test is a process that can be used to…
The Residential School System (2009)
…delivering the apology in the House of Commons here. Reconciliation & Healing Initiatives Aboriginal Healing Foundation – www.ahf.ca The Indian Residential School Survivors Society – http://www.irsss.ca/ Legacy of Hope –…
Royal Proclamation, 1763
…was initially issued by King George III in 1763 to officially claim British territory in North America after Britain won the Seven Years War. In the Royal Proclamation, ownership over…
Marginalization of Aboriginal women
…in which colonial ideas perpetuated discrimination against Aboriginal women, it is important to understand the ways in which these ideas have been retained to the present day. This discrimination continues…