Indian Status
…Indian Act on the Indian Register– a central registry maintained by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC). Status Indians are issued a status card that contains information about their identity,…
Aboriginal Identity & Terminology
…terms had existing functions in Canadian law. “Indian,” for instance, is the generic term used in the Indian Act, a centerpiece of state identity regulation, since 1876. The Indian Act…
Métis
…the following links are valuable resources for learning more about these ways in which Métis cultures are expressed. Learn Michif Manitoba Métis Resource Centre Métis Museum Métis peoples insist that…
Cedar
…Forests. Coast Salish peoples have a creation story that explains the origins of Cedar. According to the story, there once lived a good man who always gave away his belongings…
Global Actions
…Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and Other States.10 Delegates of the Indigenous organizations represent U.N.-designated socio-cultural regions that seek to achieve broad representation of Indigenous peoples: Africa; Asia; Central and South…
Gustafsen Lake
…their actions as a sort of last resort: When it was stated about Jones William Ignace, ‘Wolverine,’ that the only way he would be removed from the Sundance site would…
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
…free of this colonial mindset, not reinforce it. As human rights lawyer James Sa’ke’j Youngblood Henderson observes, “[Member states] worried about the implications of Indigenous rights, refusing to acknowledge the…
Oral Traditions
…deaf ears, and while he accepted their oral history as evidence, Justice Allen McEachern concluded that it held no weight. In his now infamous ruling, he concluded that the Gitksan…
Constitution Act, 1982 Section 35
…BC, in which Frank Calder lost his case for Aboriginal title in 1973, may have turned out differently had Section 35 been in place at that time. Borrows also feels…