Indian Homemakers’ Association of British Columbia
…Department of Indian Affairs had over our lives.” — Mary John, former president of the Vanderoof Chapter, IHA. From Stoney Creek Woman, 135, 142. By 1968, DIA funding for homemakers…
Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…and size at maturity. In addition, since fat content decreases with migration distance, processing techniques, such as drying and smoking, needed to be closely adapted to individual runs. Local ecology…
Mapping Tool: Kitsilano Reserve
False Creek, in what is now Vancouver, British Columbia, was the site of an ancient village known in the Musqueam language, hən’q’emin’əm’, as sən’a?qw and in Skwxwú7mesh as Sen’ákw. In…
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…
The Residential School System (2009)
…and domestic work such as laundry work and sewing. Residential schools systematically undermined Aboriginal culture across Canada and disrupted families for generations, severing the ties through which Aboriginal culture is…
Sixties Scoop
…to care for them. This transition to provincial services led to a 1951 amendment that enabled the Province to provide services to Aboriginal people where none existed federally. Child protection…
Métis
…Free People—Otipemisiwak,” Batoche, Saskatchewan, 1870–1930. Ottawa: National Historical Parks and Sites, Canada Parks Service, 1990. Peterson, Jacqueline, and Jennifer Brown, eds. The New Peoples: Being and Becoming Métis in North…
The Residential School System
…primarily on practical skills. Girls were primed for domestic service and taught to do laundry, sew, cook, and clean. Boys were taught carpentry, tinsmithing, and farming. Many students attended class…
The Residential School System
…primarily on practical skills. Girls were primed for domestic service and taught to do laundry, sew, cook, and clean. Boys were taught carpentry, tinsmithing, and farming. Many students attended class…
