Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…Juan Islands, set reef nets perpendicular to the shore in places, such as the mouth of a bay, where the tidal flow pushed salmon into the nets. These nets were…
Aboriginal Identity & the Classroom
…By undermining Aboriginal peoples’ cultural and social relationships to their traditional territories, colonial governments hoped to weaken Aboriginal peoples’ resistance to being removed from their land bases in order to…
Sparrow Case
…exercise what they deemed to be their inherent and unextinguished right to maintain their culture and ways of life, particularly in relation to fishing. In 1984, Musqueam band member Ronald…
Aboriginal Title
…B.C. Treaty Process (BCTP) in order to finally reach agreements with First Nations over title. The BCTP has been very controversial, and not entirely successful. Many Aboriginal groups have dropped…
Global Actions
…UK: Ashgate Dartmouth, 2003. ———. Indigenous Peoples in International Law. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Beier, J. Marshall, ed. Indigenous Diplomacies. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009….
Constitution Express
…Constitution Express continued across the Atlantic onto Europe, making this now an international demonstration. The Constitution Express travelled to the Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium, and then England in order to…
Indian Homemakers’ Association of British Columbia
…78. McLellan. Laura. “History of the BC Indian Homemakers Association.” BA Dissertation, University of British Columbia, 2005 Moran, Bridget. Stoney Creek Woman, Sai’k;uz Ts;eke: The Story of Mary John. Vancouver:…
Oral Traditions
…British Columbia [1997] 3 S.C.R. 1010, par. 13. 20 Ibid., par. 87. 21 Tsihlqot’in Nation v. British Columbia, 2007 BSCS 1700, par. 177, http://www.courts.gov.bc.ca/Jdb-txt/SC/07/17/2007BCSC1700.pdf 22 Ibid., par. 194. 23 Borrows….
Indian Status
…band council and chief, and inherit band property. In 1985, an amendment to the Indian Act separated Indian status from band membership. Bands were granted the right to develop their…
Musqueam Legal History Digital Media Archive
…order for it to be subdivided and leased to non-Band members. The leases began in 1966 and lasted 99 years, 30 years of which the rents were fixed at $400…