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…
Powley Case
…ruled that their right to hunt was protected under Section 35. The Crown, however, appealed this ruling. Its appeal was overruled in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, which reaffirmed…
Royal Proclamation, 1763
…Rights and Freedoms guarantees that nothing can terminate or diminish the Aboriginal rights outlined in the Proclamation. The Royal Proclamation also applied to the United States; however, American independence from…
Métis
…plans to appeal their case to the Supreme Court.3 Métis Settlements Alberta is the only province to recognize Métis title to the land. In 1938, the Albertan government passed the…
Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…of their race but because their fisheries were wrongfully appropriated … If a First Nation is recognized as having fishing rights above and beyond the food fishery it will be…
Aboriginal Identity & Terminology
…wider application contentious. For other Métis communities, the popular misconception that a traceable ancestry to the Red River is a requirement of being “authentically” Métis is problematic. The use of…
Global Actions
…policies, such as child apprehension, have taken similar forms across the globe. In Canada during the Sixties Scoop, Indigenous children were removed from their homes and handed over to non-Indigenous…
Indian Status
…(For more information on how taxation applies to status Indians, visit the Canadian Revenue Agency’s website here: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/brgnls/menu-eng.html). Who can have Indian Status? There are complex rules governing Indian status,…
Musqueam Legal History Digital Media Archive
…an appeal, in BC County Court. However the case made it to the Supreme Court of Canada and in 1990, the Court ruled in Sparrow’s favour. It found that despite…
Sparrow Case
…had an “existing” right to fish at the time of his arrest. The Court also ruled that the words “recognized and affirmed,” as they appear in Section 35, mean that…