Sixties Scoop
…to have specific training in dealing with children in Aboriginal communities. Many of these social workers were completely unfamiliar with the culture or history of the Aboriginal communities they entered….
Marginalization of Aboriginal women
…online at http://blackcoffeepoet.com/2011/02/16/breaking-the-silence-about-canadas-800-missing-and-murdered-aboriginal-women-interview-with-cree-academic-and-activist-robyn-bourgeois-a-photo-essay-of-the-no-more-silence-rally-feb-14th-201/ 15 Emberley, 61. 16 Emberley, 62. 17 McGrath & Stevenson, 41. 18 Emberley, 61. 19 Razack, 92. 20 Lowman, John. “Violence against Women: Violence and the (outlaw)…
Métis
…Métis peoples took place in different ways at different times and places. As evidence, they point to the many and various locations that witnessed the development of Métis communities, including…
The Indian Act
…the United Nations Human Rights Committee and the Canadian Human Rights Commission identified Section 12 of the Indian Act as a human rights abuse, as it removed a woman’s Indian…
The Residential School System (2009)
…close its doors until 1996. Many of the leaders, teachers, parents, and grandparents of today’s Aboriginal communities are residential school survivors. There is, in addition, an intergenerational effect: many descendents…
Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…immemorial, and Indigenous harvesting practices have special status under Canadian law. For many thousands of years, Indigenous communities successfully managed the fishery without the help of the Canadian state. Most…
Gustafsen Lake
…on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjoqaFg5ZjY Aftermath Gustafsen Lake continues to serve an example of a situation where excessive police, military, and government control were deployed in what many believe should have been…
The Residential School System
…their home communities, part of a strategy to alienate them from their families and familiar surroundings. In 1920, under the Indian Act, it became mandatory for every Indigenous child to…
The Residential School System
…their home communities, part of a strategy to alienate them from their families and familiar surroundings. In 1920, under the Indian Act, it became mandatory for every Indigenous child to…
Aboriginal Identity & the Classroom
…right to live on reserve. Many women were forced to live away from their home reserves and by extension their communities and families. Even if they left their husbands or…
