Cedar
…Like roots and withes, bark is also made into ropes, baskets, and fishing nets. The inner bark of the Yellow Cedar was valued for its softness and absorbability, so women…
Oral Traditions
…authorities on their subjects and what is written down is taken as fact. Such assumptions ignore the fact that authors of written documents bring their own experiences, agendas and biases…
Berger Inquiry
In 1974, Jean Chretien, Canada’s Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (DIAND) faced a dilemma. Oil and gas exploration in the Canadian north had boomed after the discovery of…
Calder Case
…Peet: Aboriginal Rights and Canadian Law, 1973-96.” Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Australia, Canada, & New Zealand. Havemann, Paul, Ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. 428-445. Foster, Hamar, Heather Raven &…
George Manuel
…then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau released the White Paper policy in 1969, Manuel spoke out strongly against the proposed assimilationist goals. Manuel found himself in a position to lead other…
About the REDress project
…the project is about, what the dresses represent. When they do ask or find out that the dresses represent missing and murdered Aboriginal women in our country they are often…
Van der Peet case
…(1998): 249-270. Endnotes 1 Supreme Court of Canada, R. v. Van der Peet, [1996] 2 S.C.R. 507. Available online: https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/1407/index.do 2 Russell Lawrence Barsh & James Youngblood Henderson. “The Supreme…
Ipperwash Crisis
…a group of approximately 30 members of the band, including a number of children, began their occupation of the park on September 4, 1995. They planned to peacefully occupy the…
Community & Politics
…The Assembly of First Nations – http://www.afn.ca The First Nations Summit – http://www.fns.bc.ca/ The Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami – http://www.itk.ca The Native Women’s Association of Canada – http://www.nwac.ca The Metis National…
Identity
…who determines identity, and how the government has managed to regulate Aboriginal identity in Canada, and focuses in particular on questions of authenticity: as identity is regulated and negotiated, questions…
