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…ultimately successful in achieving their desired outcome. After George Manuel fell ill during the Constitution Express, Bob Manuel took over as President in 1981. Saul Terry was then elected President…

…peoples. Samuel de Champlain famously said in 1634, “our young men will marry your daughters, and we will be one people.”1 This reflected the French policy of recognizing and making…

…expertly gaffing or dip-netting fish in the swirling eddies below. On relatively shallow, slow-moving tributaries, weirs were used to channel fish into traps, or towards fishers with other harvesting equipment….

…reading Books & articles Asch, Michael. Home and Native Land: Aboriginal Rights and the Canadian Constitution. Agincourt: Methuen, 1984. Aki-Kwe/Mary Ellen Turpel, “Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian Charter of Rights…

…Introduction “The Elders would serve as mnemonic pegs to each other. They will be speaking individually uninterrupted in a circle one after another. When each Elder spoke they were…

…country with the goal of assimilating and “civilizing” First Nations peoples based on a European model. These policies had profound effects on Aboriginal women across the country. By outlining these…

…recognition of Aboriginal rights in the proposed patriation of the Canadian constitution by the Trudeau government. A group of activists led by George Manuel, then president of the Union of…

…By Erin Hanson (2009), with updates and revisions by Daniel P. Gamez & Alexa Manuel (September 2020). The original version of this article has been archived, but may be…