Aboriginal Identity & the Classroom
…tied to rural communities or reserves obscure their positions and perspectives. “Looking Aboriginal”: Race and Aboriginal Identity Anonymous postcard submitted to Post Secret. Image from www.postsecret.com The social realities of…
Indian Status
…(For more information on how taxation applies to status Indians, visit the Canadian Revenue Agency’s website here: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/brgnls/menu-eng.html). Who can have Indian Status? There are complex rules governing Indian status,…
Powley Case
…41 (2004): 1049-1083. Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, “The Powley Case—Frequently Asked Questions.” https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1100100014419/1535469560872 Stevenson, Mark L. “The Métis Aboriginal Rights Revolution.” MLaw Thesis, Vancouver: University of British Columbia, 2004….
Van der Peet case
…Imperialism and Ropes of Sand,” McGill Law Journal 42 (1997), 998. 3 Eisenberg, Avigail. “The Distinctive Culture Test.” Human Rights Dialogue: “Cultural Rights.” 2.12 (2005). Available online at: https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/publications/archive/dialogue/2_12/section_3/5149…
Guerin Case
…Constitution. By Tanisha Salomons & Erin Hanson Recommended Resources Supreme Court of Canada, Guerin v. The Queen, [1984] 2 S.C.R. 335. Available online: https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/2495/index.do Musqueam Band. “Musqueam Day 2020.” https://www.musqueam.bc.ca/musqueam-day-2020/…
Aboriginal Rights
…Section 35. (Vancouver: Theytus Books Ltd, 2003.) Endnotes 1 Article 1(2) of the United Nations Charter, https://www.un.org/en/sections/un-charter/chapter-i/index.html Manitoba, Justice Institute. “Aboriginal And Treaty Rights.” http://www.ajic.mb.ca/volumel/chapter5.html#9 2 Avigail Eisenberg, “Reasoning about…
The Indian Act
…date on new episodes of RevisionQuest by visiting its official site at http://www.cbc.ca/revisionquest/ The “Potlatch Law” & Section 141 One of the most famous examples of this oppression and subsequent…
The Residential School System
…The Justice System and Aboriginal People. Ch. 14 (http://www.ajic.mb.ca/volumel/chapter14.html) [6] National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (Canada), Marion Buller, Michèle Audette, Brian Eyolfson, and Qajaq Robinson….
Constitution Express
…17 Smith, Melvin. “Some Perspectives on the Origin and Meaning of Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982.” Vancouver: Fraser Institute, 2000. Available online: https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/PerspectivesonSection35.pdf 18 Romanow, Roy J., Howard…
About Jordan Bennett
…interactive performance spaces, I aim to form an atmosphere where traditional meets contemporary, shifting preconceived notions on an object or an actions original function or intent. Official website http://www.jordanbennett.ca…
