The Residential School System
…only reached grade five by the time they were 18. At this point, students were sent away. Many were discouraged from pursuing further education. Abuse at the schools was widespread:…
Aboriginal Identity & Terminology
…may have legal implications that often operate in surprising ways. In this section, we go over the various ways in which Aboriginal peoples in Canada self-identify and are defined by…
Indian Status
…Government-issued Indian Status card. Image courtesy of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. What is Indian Status? “Indian Status” refers to a specific legal identity of an Aboriginal person in…
Métis
…Virtual Museum of Métis History and Culture, by the Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies and Applied Research. http://www.metismuseum.com/ Political Organizations Métis National Council: http://www.metisnation.ca/ Métis Nation of BC: http://www.mnbc.ca/…
Global Actions
…right to subsistence economies, the right to governance, and the right to land, protect the foundations of the society. They can be critical when these societies and cultures are threatened….
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
…Aboriginal organizations’ responses Assembly of First Nations’ response. Inuit Tapriit Kanatami’s response. Native Women’s Association of Canada’s response. Union of BC Indian Chiefs’ response. Indigenous representatives from Canada had been…
Gustafsen Lake
…Vancouver Sun, 12 September 1995, A1. As quoted in Lambertus, 112. 19 Lambertus, 109. 20 Switlo, personal communication. 21 Switlo, personal communication. 22 As quoted by Mofino, Rick. “U.S. court…
Bill C-31
…Indian women. Section 12(1)(b) removed status of any woman who married a non-Indian, including American Indians and non-status Aboriginal men in Canada. Section 12(I)(a)(iv) introduced the “double mother” clause, wherein…
Oral Traditions
…Us,” in Be of Good Mind: Essays on the Coast Salish, ed. Bruce Granville Miller (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007), 82. 4 Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson, eds., The Oral History…
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…
