Cedar
…years old. With its lightweight and rot-resistant wood, Red Cedar is the most versatile and most widely-used plant among coastal First Nations.4 Yellow Cedar bark is softer and more pliable…
Global Actions
…from Indigenous groups. Indigenous efforts were aimed both at making common cause, first regionally and then globally, and at entering the International arena as sovereign players independent of the states…
Bill C-31
…a membership code to submit to INAC, as well as submit a list of all people included on the band membership list. It is worth pointing out that INAC provides…
ILO Convention 107
…in 18 countries.3 By Erin Hanson. Links & Recommended Resources International Labour Organization website: www.ilo.org Convention 107: https://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/fp=NORMLEXPUB:12100:0::NO::P12100_ILO_CODE:C107 “Indigenous and Tribal Peoples” https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/indigenous-tribal/lang–en/index.htm Nations that ratified Convention 107: https://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f?p=1000:11300:0::NO:11300:P11300_INSTRUMENT_ID:312252 Endnotes…
ILO Convention 169
…Erin Hanson Recommended resources Websites International Labour Organization: http://www.ilo.org Convention No. 169: https://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/fp=NORMLEXPUB:12100:0::NO::P12100_ILO_CODE:C169 The ILO and Indigenous & Tribal Peoples: http://www.ilo.org/indigenous Pro 169 Training Tool Box on Indigenous People’s Rights:…
Aboriginal Title
…treaty with the Crown. The Proclamation further specifies that Aboriginal land can only be sold or ceded to the Crown, and not directly to settlers. From the eighteenth to the…
Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…the so-called Aboriginal “food fishery,” but more often non-Native fishermen oppose the Department of Fisheries and Oceans’ program that allows some salmon caught by Stó:lō fishers to be sold commercially….
The White Paper 1969
…Indian Affairs through its mouthpiece, the Honourable Mr. Chrétien, leads directly to cultural genocide. We will not walk this path. —Harold Cardinal, The Unjust Society In 1969, Prime Minister Pierre…
Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
…to First Nations in B.C. This website holds digital archives of old UBCIC newsletters, photographs, video, and makes several UBCIC publications available online including policy papers, Chief Kerry’s Moose, a…
Gustafsen Lake
…Gustafsen Lake, some journalists became rightly suspicious. As reporter William Johnson wrote in: Perhaps it’s the old newsman in me, but I’m uneasy about the reporting. Journalists have been kept…
