The Indian Act
…help devise new Indian legislation.10 RCAP identifies this situation as a paradox that is key to understanding the Indian Act and the relationship between the Canadian state and status Indians….
Aboriginal Identity & the Classroom
…also “set[s] the legal parameters by which Indigenousness can be said to be eliminated”: Once these parameters have been set, policies can be put into place to continuously restrict and…
Métis
…in North America. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1985. Sawchuck, Joe. “The Métis, Non-Status Indians, and the New Aboriginality: Government Influence on Native political Alliances and Identity.” Canadian Ethnic Studies…
ILO Convention 169
…Lee. “A New Step in the International Law on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples: ILO Convention No. 169 of 1989,” Oklahoma City University Law Review, Vol. 15, No. 3, Fall 1990….
About Nicholas Galanin
…‘contemporary’ approaches to art, he pursues them both in parallel paths. His stunning bodies of work simultaneously preserve his culture and explore new perceptual territory. Galanin studied at the London…
About Nikamowin (Song)
…just as important and relevant as the other. It also came from a place where I wanted to explore a new way to engage with language. There have been many…
Marginalization of Aboriginal women
…of the American Indians, which was published originally in 1755, James Adair derided this unique political institution as a petticoat government—a direct jab, according to Paula Gunn Allen (Laguna Pueblo)…
The Residential School System (2009)
…on the threshold of a new beginning where we are in control of our own destinies. We must be careful and listen to the voices that have been silenced by…
Royal Proclamation, 1763
…especial leave and Licence for that Purpose first obtained. And We do further strictly enjoin and require all Persons whatever who have either wilfully or inadvertently seated themselves upon any…
Bill C-31
…United Nations Human Rights Committee. Lovelace, a Maliseet woman from Tobique in New Brunswick, had married an American man and moved away from her reserve community. When the marriage ended…