Indian Status
…resources Indian and Northern Affairs Canada: “Status”: http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/br/is/index-eng.asp Gilbert, Larry. Entitlement to Indian Status and Membership Codes in Canada. Scarborough: Carswell, 1996. Lawrence, Bonita. “Real” Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban…
Government Policy
…colonial life and values. These efforts have persistently been resisted and challenged by Aboriginal peoples throughout their history, but because this policy and legislation has been so invasively enforced, it…
Indian Homemakers’ Association of British Columbia
…out even standard domestic tasks. As historian Cathy Converse notes, “many women did not even have the basic essentials of life; hunger was a more immediate problem.”1 Many homemakers clubs…
Bands
…Peoples, 1996. Canada. The Indian Act (An Act Respecting Indians.) R.S., 1951, c. I-5. Available online at: http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/i-5/ Endnotes 1 The Indian Act’s definition is as follows: “band” means a…
Terminology
…as such. Aboriginal is also a common term for the Indigenous peoples of Australia. When used in Canada, however, it is generally understood to refer to Aboriginal peoples in a…
Powley Case
…Barristers and Solicitors, 2010. http://albertametis.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Metis-Law-in-Canada-2013-1.pdf Endnotes 1 Jean Teillet. “R. v. Powley, A Summary of the Supreme Court of Canada Reasons for Judgment.” Pape & Salter Barristers and Soliciters, 1….
Bill C-31
…family and community connections. Her children could also be involuntarily enfranchised as a result. Compulsory enfranchisement disproportionately affected Indian women, since Indian men could not have their status forcibly terminated…
Guerin Case
…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/ Peter…
Royal Proclamation, 1763
…1763 to Constitutionally Entrenched Aboriginal Rights.” In Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, Paul Havemann [Ed.]. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1999. 351-377. Hutchings, Patricia Margaret, “The Argument…
Totem Poles
…a fishing trip.17 The pole was then shipped to Sweden, where it remained in storage until 1980, when it was finally put on display at the national Museum of Ethnography…
