Gustafsen Lake
…would assemble every summer at a specific site near Gustafsen Lake, or Ts’Peten, to conduct the Sundance. The site was in ancestral Secwepemc territories and was prepared and respected as…
The Indian Act
…C-21: An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act.” Parliamentary Information and Research Service, Law and Governance Division, 2008. Available online at: https://lop.parl.ca/sites/PublicWebsite/default/en_CA/ResearchPublications/LegislativeSummaries/392LS577E 9 “This apartheid law prohibited traditional…
Bands
…the Indian Act and policies and programs relating to bands, including disbursement of administrative monies, social service programs, and educational programs; band administration is responsible for the day-to-day functioning of…
Métis
…and Persistence of the Red River Métis, 1835–1890.” Canadian Historical Association, Historical Papers 23, no. 1 (1988): 120–144. Ens, Gerhard. Homeland to Hinterland: The Changing Worlds of the Red River…
Aboriginal Rights
…occupation of their home territories as well as their ongoing social structures and political and legal systems. As such, Aboriginal rights are separate from rights afforded to non-Aboriginal Canadian citizens…
Government Policy
…to an extensive school system set up by the Canadian government and administered by churches that purported to educate Aboriginal children by removing them from their families and home communities,…
Constitution Act, 1982 Section 35
…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 and…
Totem Poles
…officially welcomed the pole home to Kitimat. It was the first pole in Canada to be repatriated from overseas. Louisa Smith, a spokesperson for the Haisla chief, summed up the…
Constitution Express
…daily on televised news broadcasts. This led to a remarkable welcome in Ottawa when Mayor Marion Dewar called on the citizens of Ottawa to generously open their home to the…
Global Actions
…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 families;…
