Vancouver Island Pre-Confederation Treaties Conference, 2012
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
John Lutz
Cole Harris
Raymond Frogner
Louise Mandell
Description
Speakers discuss: ambiguity in both oral accounts and written versions of the Douglas Treaties; litigation arising from treaties; archival treatment of colonial documents pertaining to the treaties and the bound register; contradictory views about the issue of treaty annuities versus lump sum payments.
Followed by question and answer period.
Duration: 2:01:00.
Political and Legal Anthropology Review, vol. 35, no. 2, November 2012, pp. 289-307
Description
Looks at court case regarding group of aboriginal plaintiffs who sought damages for loss of culture and language as a result of attending a residential school in British Columbia.
Manitoba Law Journal, vol. 21, 1991-1992, pp. 618-630
Description
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Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 2, Western Oceania: Caring for Ancestral Domain, Summer, 1991
Description
Brief updates on developments on negotiations, judgments and court cases including Gitskan and Wet'suwet'en land title claim, aftermath of Oka conflict, James Bay controversy and more.
Arbutus Review, vol. 3, no. 2, Special Focus on Indigenous Governance, 2012, pp. 6-19
Description
Reviews scholarship on British Columbia resettlement, examines the Saanichton Marina court case, and discusses ongoing disputes over recognition of the Douglas Treaties.