Sixties Scoop
…their homes and placed, in most cases, into middle-class Euro-Canadian families. This overrepresentation continues today. An epidemic of Aboriginal child apprehension The government began phasing out compulsory residential school education…
Métis
…Learn Michif. http://www.learnmichif.com An excellent, thorough website to learn about the Métis language Michif, as well as Métis cultures, history, and contemporary politics. Metis Culture and Heritage Resource Centre: http://www.metisresourcecentre.mb.ca/…
Powley Case
…the historical time frame of a right must be after European contact, but before the Crown had effective control over the community in question. For example, while the Crown may…
Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…needed to build and operate weirs, traps, and reef nets safely and effectively. In addition, decisions about access to particular fishing spots were made by the elders of extended family…
Ipperwash Crisis
…Public 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…
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
…more tangible commitment than the “aspirational” UNDRIP.12 Aboriginal and human rights organizations and activists continued to lobby for Canada to sign the UNDRIP, and in March 2010, Governor General Michaëlle…
Cedar
…Canada. Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 2004. Nelson, John David. A Vanishing Heritage: The Loss of Red Cedar from Canada’s Forests. Vancouver: Western Canada Wilderness Committee, 2004. Stewart, Hilary. Cedar. Vancouver:…
Totem Poles
…the Pacific Northwest to represent and commemorate ancestry, histories, people, or events. Totem poles are typically created out of red cedar, a malleable wood relatively abundant in the Pacific Northwest,…
Marginalization of Aboriginal women
…Accessed February 17, 2011. Available online at http://blackcoffeepoet.com/2011/02/16/breaking-the-silence-about-canadas-800-missing-and-murdered-aboriginal-women-interview-with-cree-academic-and-activist-robyn-bourgeois-a-photo-essay-of-the-no-more-silence-rally-feb-14th-201/ 15 Emberley, 61. 16 Emberley, 62. 17 McGrath & Stevenson, 41. 18 Emberley, 61. 19 Razack, 92. 20 Lowman, John. “Violence against…
Gustafsen Lake
…This rhetoric re-focused the dispute from one about land claims to one about trouble-making radicals that the RCMP needed to quell. As this was the only information coming out of…
