UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
…13 Stephen Hui, “Throne Speech Offers “Illusion of Support” for U.N. Declaration, First Nations Leader Says,” The Georgia Straight, March 3, 2010, . 14 Ibid. 15 Lightfoot. 16 Ibid. 17…
Sixties Scoop
…of First Nations Children and Youth.” First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada, 2004. Available online at: https://fncaringsociety.com/sites/default/files/docs/KeepingThePromise.pdf Fournier, Suzanne and Ernie Crey. Stolen from Our Embrace. Vancouver:…
The Residential School System (2009)
…online: http://www.ajic.mb.ca/volume.html 18 Frideres & Gadacz, Aboriginal Peoples in Canada. Toronto: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008. 81. 19 Frideres & Gadacz, 85. 20 First Nations Leadership Council, BC Assembly of First…
Global Actions
…Nations (AFN) gives a unified voice to First Nations across Canada, in federal politics as well as on the international stage. The AFN participated in drafting the U.N. Declaration on…
Marginalization of Aboriginal women
…Vision and Community Survival. Toronto: Sumach Press, 2003. Blair, Peggy J. “Rights of Aboriginal Women On- and Off-Reserve.” Vancouver: The Scow Institute, 2005. Cole, Susan C. “Voices of First Nations…
Totem Poles
…a rot-resistant tree that is straight-grained and easy to carve.7 Before a cedar tree is harvested for a totem pole, many coastal First Nations communities will perform a ceremony of…
The Indian Act
…system.” Assembly of First Nations, “Assembly of First Nations– The Story.” Available online at: http://caid.ca/AFNHis2010.pdf 10 Cardinal, Harold. The Unjust Society. 2nd ed. Vancouver: Douglas & MacIntyre, 1999. 140….
Métis
…p 209. 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,…
Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
…Landing Native Fisheries: Indian Reserves & Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849-1925. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008. Harris, Douglas C. And Millerd, Peter. “Food Fish, Commercial Fish, and Fish to Support…
Reserves
…First Nations leaders and community members at the time: We agree with this intent but we find that the Government is ignorant of two basic points. The Government wrongly thinks…
