Sixties Scoop
…Additionally, upon seeing the social problems reserve communities faced, such as poverty, unemployment, and addiction, some social workers felt a duty to protect the local children. In many cases, Aboriginal…
MΓ©tis
…Free People—Otipemisiwak,” Batoche, Saskatchewan, 1870–1930. Ottawa: National Historical Parks and Sites, Canada Parks Service, 1990. Peterson, Jacqueline, and Jennifer Brown, eds. The New Peoples: Being and Becoming Métis in North…
Reserves
…1997), 120–1. 7 Harris, 291-2. 8 Christie Blatchford, “Blatchford’s Take: Shame and Disgrace—Canada’s native reserves deserve foreign correspondent treatment,” The Globe and Mail, February 2, 2008. Available online via https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/canadas-native-reserves-deserve-foreign-correspondent-treatment/article717978/….
Ipperwash Crisis
…Inquiry Transcript, November 23, 2005. http://mail.tscript.com/trans/ipperwash/nov_23_05/text.htm Ipperwash Inquiry Transcript, November 28, 2006. http://mail.tscript.com/trans/ipperwash/nov_28_05/text.htm Gillespie, Kerry. “Ipperwash Land Returned to Indians.” In The Star. December 21, 2007. http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/287702 Ontario, The Ipperwash…
Gustafsen Lake
…Erin Hanson, October 29, 2010. 6 Lambertus, 43, 223 note 27. 7 Lambertus, 43. 8 Lambertus, 43. 9 Switlo, 118. 10 Lambertus, 127, 152-165. 11 Johnson, William. “RCMP Should Avoid…
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
…This New Human Rights Instrument,” NationTalk, May 1, 2008, http://www.nationtalk.ca/modules/news/article.php?storyid=9167 12 “Canada Slammed at UN over Indigenous Rights,” Reuters, May 1, 2008,. Available online at: http://ca.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idCAN0134751220080501 (accessed January 2010). 13…
Totem Poles
…York Times (New York, NY), May 5, 2010. 5 Halpin, 24. 6 Halpin, 23. 7 Hilary Stewart, Cedar (Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre: 1984), 25. 8 Roy Henry Vickers, Spirit Transformed:…
Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…“Returning to Selective Fishing,” 447. 16 Newell, Tangled Webs, 54 17 Newell, Tangled Webs, 53, 77. 18 Newell, Tangled Webs, 54 19 Newell, Tangled Webs, 86, 109 20 Newell, Tangled…
Global Actions
…Community, 127–33. Providence, RI: Berghahn Books, 1997. This chapter describes the movement to have the term Indigenous peoples, rather than the singular people, used in U.N. conventions and related instruments,…
Cedar
…burned slowly, providing excellent tinder for matches and torches. Cedar wood is strong, lightweight, and straight-grained, so it is easy to split and carve, and made into totem poles, masks,…