Sixties Scoop
…list: http://www.fncfcs.com/resources/childwelfareResources.html First Nations Child and Family Services Compensation Process: http://www.fnchildcompensation.ca Reducing the Number of Indigenous Children in Care: https://www.sac-isc.gc.ca/eng/1541187352297/1541187392851 Newspaper articles Dolha, Lloyd. “The Sixties Scoop: How Canada’s “Best…
Ipperwash Crisis
…Report of the Ipperwash Inquiry, here: http://www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca/inquiries/ipperwash/report/index.html Amnesty International, The Ipperwash Crisis. https://www.amnesty.ca/legal-brief/ipperwash-inquiry CBC News, The Ipperwash Inquiry. https://www.cbc.ca/news2/background/ipperwash/ Ontario Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs, “The Report of the Ipperwash Inquiry:…
Métis
…buy land (money scrip). Scrip was used to transfer land to Métis peoples in Canada from 1885 until the 1920s. Land scrip allotted either 160 or 240 acres to a…
Totem Poles
…deceased wife and children. Starting in the early 1920s, the federal government adopted a policy of salvage anthropology and, fearing the decline of Indigenous art, began to buy out totem…
ILO Convention 107
…habitual territories”—unless the government wants to develop said territory for their own purposes. Critics argue that such clauses enable nation-states to continue their oppression of Indigenous peoples without consequence. Ultimately,…
Aboriginal Title
…1985. Available online: https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ubcic/pages/1440/attachments/original/1484861461/12_aboriginalrightspositionpaper1985.pdf?1484861461 —– “Aboriginal Title Implementation.” https://www.ubcic.bc.ca/aboriginal_title_implementation_ubcic_1998 —– “’Certainty:’ Canada’s Struggle to Extinguish Aboriginal Title.” https://www.ubcic.bc.ca/certainty_canada_s_struggle_to_extinguish_aboriginal_title —– “Two World Views in Law.” https://www.ubcic.bc.ca/two_world_views_in_law Endnotes 1 Union of British…
The Residential School System (2009)
…and Christian ways of living and assimilating them into mainstream Canadian society. The residential school system operated from the 1880s into the closing decades of the 20th century. The system…
Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
…Twitter: http://twitter.com/UBCIC View UBCIC’s Digitized Resources & Publications Portal: https://www.ubcic.bc.ca/ubcic_publications Nickel, Sarah A., and Scholars Portal Books: Canadian University Presses 2018. Assembling Unity: Indigenous Politics, Gender, and the Union of…
Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…375-412. Endnotes 1 “Native groups want sport fishing ban after shooting.” The Canadian Pres, August 18, 2009. https://www.ctvnews.ca/native-groups-want-sport-fishing-ban-after-shooting-1.426462 2 http://bcelders.com/Newsletter/Sept06.pdf 3 Nicholas Xumthoult Claxton, “ ISTÁ SĆIÁNEW, ISTÁ SXOLE: ‘To…
ILO Convention 169
…Erin Hanson Recommended resources Websites International Labour Organization: http://www.ilo.org Convention No. 169: https://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/fp=NORMLEXPUB:12100:0::NO::P12100_ILO_CODE:C169 The ILO and Indigenous & Tribal Peoples: http://www.ilo.org/indigenous Pro 169 Training Tool Box on Indigenous People’s Rights:…
