Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
…to First Nations in B.C. This website holds digital archives of old UBCIC newsletters, photographs, video, and makes several UBCIC publications available online including policy papers, Chief Kerry’s Moose, a…
Community & Politics
…Union has also published news sources, runs resource centres (including an extensive online resource), and continues to work with and advise provincial government policies regarding Aboriginal relations, title, and rights….
Totem Poles
…succeeded in their quest to repatriate the G’psgolox Pole. By Alice Huang. Recommended resources Online resources Totem Pole Raising Ceremony – University of Alaska Southeast http://vimeo.com/11303883 Totem Poles –…
Bill C-31
…Indian women. Section 12(1)(b) removed status of any woman who married a non-Indian, including American Indians and non-status Aboriginal men in Canada. Section 12(I)(a)(iv) introduced the “double mother” clause, wherein…
Aboriginal Identity & the Classroom
…man with Indian status married a non-status woman, his wife would gain status even if she did not have Aboriginal heritage, and their children would be entitled to Indian status….
Culture
… First Nations of British Columbia. Click to enlarge. Reproduced courtesy of the Museum of Anthropology, University of B.C., Vancouver. Aboriginal groups across what is now Canada each have…
Aboriginal Rights
…Aboriginal Women and the Application of the Canadian Charter.” In Thunder in My Soul: A Mohawk Woman Speaks. (Halifax: Fernwood, 1995). 131-151. —– “Constitutional Renovation: New Relations or Continued Colonial…
Cedar
…resources Videos “Bill Reid” – National Film Board of Canada. https://www.nfb.ca/film/bill_reid/ “Importance of Cedar” – SFU Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. https://swswlibrary.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/importance-of-cedar.docx Images and online exhibits “Cedar: A Journey into…
Constitution Express
…17 Smith, Melvin. “Some Perspectives on the Origin and Meaning of Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982.” Vancouver: Fraser Institute, 2000. Available online: https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/PerspectivesonSection35.pdf 18 Romanow, Roy J., Howard…
The White Paper 1969
…1969. Available online: http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/301/inac-ainc/indian_policy-e/cp1969_e.pdf Cairns, Alan. Citizens Plus: Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian State. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2000. Tennant, Paul. Aboriginal Peoples and Politics: The Indian Land Question in British…
