UBC Dialogue: Full Video Record
…classes for the first day of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s National Event in Vancouver. A considerable amount of programming and other activity took place on campus to…
Musqueam Legal History Digital Media Archive
…$400 a year and for the remainder of the years were to be set at “a fair market rate.” When the leases ended in 1995, Musqueam argued that the rents…
Aboriginal Identity & the Classroom
…order to facilitate assimilation into the colonial mainstream. Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their homes and communities and made to live the majority of the year in these schools…
Marginalization of Aboriginal women
…roles, they could be severely punished. While written legislation provided standards for behaviour, day-to-day experiences did not always reflect these laws. Although there are consistent threads of resistance, some aspects…
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
…the following year. Upon its approval, the draft declaration was sent to the Commission of Human Rights, which established another working group consisting of human rights experts and over 100…
Indian Homemakers’ Association of British Columbia
…in 1976! We discovered in that year that we could no longer knit and crochet and quilt and leave Native politics to others… Here was our chance to talk, and…
Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
…Chiefs‘ Council. Each member of the Executive Committee serves a term of three years.3 The UBCIC holds an Annual General Meeting (AGM) every year in which each member band is…
Constitution Express
…over the following year to further develop Section 35—subsections (3) and (4) were added in 1983. For more information on the development of Section 35 and what it means, please…
Royal Proclamation, 1763
…in the Third Year of our Reign. GOD SAVE THE KING Recommended Resources & Further Reading Borrows, John. “Wampum at Niagara: The Royal Procalamation, Canadian Legal History, and Self-Government.” In…
Identity
…implications in the day-to-day lives and experiences of Aboriginal peoples. This section was initially written for students and instructors dealing with issues of Aboriginal identity in the classroom. As such,…