Indian Status
…State alike require that every effort should be made to aid the Red man in lifting himself out of his condition of tutelage and dependence, and that is clearly our…
Aboriginal Title
…twentieth centuries, Crown representatives and leaders of Aboriginal communities signed treaties throughout most of Canada in an effort to resolve issues of outstanding Aboriginal title. These treaties set out agreements…
Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…the Fisheries department was to ban all net fishing in inland waters. As a result, Aboriginal fishers bore the brunt of this conservation effort. The bands above the slide –…
Government Policy
…effort should be made to aid the Red man in lifting himself out of his condition of tutelage and dependence, and that is clearly our wisdom and our duty, through…
Reserves
…was an effort to extinguish Aboriginal title through administrative and bureaucratic means.”3 Reserve reduction in British Columbia Reserves in British Columbia had barely been established before government officials moved to…
Royal Proclamation, 1763
…the Countries above described. or upon any other Lands which, not having been ceded to or purchased by Us, are still reserved to the said Indians as aforesaid, forthwith to…
Oral Traditions
…(Vancouver: UBC Press, forthcoming.) 17 Alessandro Portelli, “What Makes Oral History Different,” in The Oral History Reader, 34. 18 Ibid., 34–5. 19 Delgamuukw v. British Columbia [1997] 3 S.C.R. 1010,…
Berger Inquiry
…Mackenzie Delta, began a house-to-house campaign to explain the land claim to families in six communities around the Beaufort Sea. In Yellowknife, the chiefs at the Indian Brotherhood of the…
Klamath Termination
…functions of life on the reservation before termination as a way of understanding and assessing cultural change, what was lost and, in some respects, with great effort, regained. Participants describe…
