ILO Convention 169
…Most of the nations that have ratified Convention 169 are in Latin America, where enforcement is weak.3 Non-signatories such as Canada and the United States cite the international community’s inability…
George Manuel
…political unity of Indigenous peoples of North, Central and South America as well as Europe and Asia. He called this collection of Indigenous societies that had been swamped under successive…
About Sovereignty Performance
…Interview with Jordan Bennett Can you please introduce yourself? Where you are from? My name is Jordan Bennett, I am a Visual Artist of Mi’kmaq and french descent and…
UBC Dialogue: Full Record
…History of the Indian Residential Schools Beverly Jacobs (former President of the Native Women’s Association of Canada and Respondent at the Apology in Parliament): The Apology as a political moment;…
Global Indigenous Issues
…which Aboriginal peoples have organized across (externally-imposed) borders to bring their struggles to have their rights recognized to broader audiences. In some cases, these organizations have brought their grievances to…
ILO Convention 107
…1 John Bodley, Cultural Anthropology: Tribes, States and the Global System, 3rd ed. (Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing, 1999), 415–6. 2 International Labour Organization, “History of ILO’s Work,” Indigenous and…
Identity
…Identity negotiations produce categories that can exclude as much as include particular groups of people. These categories create blanket assumptions and stereotypes accepted as natural by outsiders, and may also…
UBC Dialogue: Nov 1, 2011
…see http://irsi.aboriginal.ubc.ca. Counseling Support Services UBC Students Counselling Services provides counselling to UBC students. The team includes an Aboriginal counsellor with experience working with Aboriginal communities. To book an appointment…
Enfranchisement
…enfranchised, his wife and children would automatically be enfranchised. However, very few Aboriginal people or groups were willing to abandon their cultural and legal identities, as anticipated by the colonial…
About the REDress project
…like Bonnie Devine, KC Adams, Lita Fontaine, Rebecca Belmore, beginning to see how artists can create spaces for critical dialogue around contemporary social issues. The REDress Project was also inspired…
