Sixties Scoop
…Proved Catastrophic.” The First Nations Drum, March 2009. Available online at: http://www.firstnationsdrum.com/2009/03/the-sixties-scoop-how-canadas-best-intentions-proved-catastrophic/ Philp, Margaret. “The Land of Lost Children.” The Globe and Mail. 21 December 2002: F4. Available online at:…
Marginalization of Aboriginal women
…online at http://blackcoffeepoet.com/2011/02/16/breaking-the-silence-about-canadas-800-missing-and-murdered-aboriginal-women-interview-with-cree-academic-and-activist-robyn-bourgeois-a-photo-essay-of-the-no-more-silence-rally-feb-14th-201/ 15 Emberley, 61. 16 Emberley, 62. 17 McGrath & Stevenson, 41. 18 Emberley, 61. 19 Razack, 92. 20 Lowman, John. “Violence against Women: Violence and the (outlaw)…
Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…exchange, including extensive networks of ceremonial redistribution and trade, and protocols for recognizing and transferring rights to fishing places. The writings of 20th century ethnographers such as Franz Boas and…
The Indian Act
…C-21: An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act.” Parliamentary Information and Research Service, Law and Governance Division, 2008. Available online at: https://lop.parl.ca/sites/PublicWebsite/default/en_CA/ResearchPublications/LegislativeSummaries/392LS577E 9 “This apartheid law prohibited traditional…
Oral Traditions
…recounting of a series of events. As readers, we may interpret these writings, but the writing itself remains the same. Oral narratives, on the other hand, do not have to…
Reserves
…the Minister approves of the allotment.” You can read the Indian Act and its regulations over reserves online here: http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/i-5/. Creation of the reserve system Precursors to the modern reserve…
Métis
…Available online at http://moses.creighton.edu/kripke/jesuitrelations/relations_01.html 2 Supreme Court of Canada, R. v. Blais, 2003 SCC 44, [2003] 2 S.C.R. 236. September 19, 2003. Available online at: https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/2077/index.do 3 Chartrand, David. “Louis…
Aboriginal Identity & Terminology
…privileges, such as exemption from taxes under certain circumstances and eligibility for certain government services, though its primary purpose throughout most of Canadian history has been to regulate and restrict…
About Nikamowin (Song)
…Best Experimental – ImagineNATIVE Film Festival (Toronto, ON) Best Indigenous Language Production – ImagineNATIVE Film Festival (Toronto, ON) Best Short Film – Art Gallery of Hamilton Film Festival (Hamilton, ON)…
The Residential School System (2009)
…as the general population in the public school system, and the schools were sorely underfunded. Teachings focused primarily on practical skills. Girls were primed for domestic service and taught to…
