The Residential School System
…non-Indigenous peers. Post-secondary education was strongly discouraged for Indigenous students because those who wanted to attend university would have been enfranchised. The process to phase out the residential school system…
Terminology
…Canada with “status” and “non-status Indians,” the legally defined categories of people under the Indian Act. On the other hand, terms can empower populations when the people have the power…
The White Paper 1969
…could not deny that Aboriginal peoples were facing serious socio-economic barriers, such as greater poverty and higher infant mortality rates than non-Indigenous Canadians and lower life expectancy and levels of…
Bands
…a non-Indian or a non-status Indian man, now allowing these women to retain their status and be able to pass Indian status onto their children, thus allowing them to stay…
ILO Convention 169
…assembled a Committee of Experts to revise it. The Committee’s proceedings in the late 1980s included meetings with Indigenous delegates, but Committee members, principally non-Indigenous government and business representatives, had…
Ipperwash Crisis
…members of the Stony Point First Nation began to occupy the land at what was now referred to as “Camp Ipperwash.” In order to assert their claim to the land,…
Global Indigenous Issues
…some of these groups have united across political borders and geographic locations, in the face of political opposition and countless other barriers, in order to engage with the international community…
Credits
…Concept: Linc Kesler, Karrmen Crey Visualization Tool: Nicolas Garcia Belmonte (http://thejit.org) Customisations: Shaffiq Rahemtullah, ArtsISIT, UBC Non directional to directional graph (main algorithm changes) Graph Operations (zoom/rotation) Administrative tools –…
Berger Inquiry
…hearings held in Yellowknife. Professor Michael Jackson of the University of BC organized hearings in more than 30 Dene, Inuit and non-aboriginal communities across the NWT so residents could offer…
Identity
…internalized by members of the group in question. Identity – and how it is created, maintained and regulated—is a complex topic critical to understanding relationships between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal groups…