Includes information on the history of use, traditional harvesting, traditional use, and nutrition for: fish, general seafood, small mammals, deer, moose, birds, seaweed, berries, and roots native to British Columbia.
New Human Rights Museum a Monument to Contradiction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Bruce McIvor
[Cornelius Wabasse
Erwin Redsky
Cathy Merrick]
Description
Topics include the implications of the Tsilhqot’in and Grassy Narrows decisions, duty to consult, provincial treaty obligations, and proposed federal land claims policy.
Between Keewatin and Tsilhqot'in: Reflections From the Centre of Turtle Island
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Bill Gallagher
Description
Presentation by the author of Resource Rulers: Fortune and Folly on Canada's Road to Resources, offers recommendations to First Nations people including promoting their 197 legal wins.
Duration: 31:50.
Purpose of the guide is to facilitate the timely processing of requests from local governments to the Province of British Columbia for statutory approvals of boundary changes, adoption of amendment of zoning bylaws, and more.
Council of the Haida Nation and Guujaaw on their own behalf and on behalf of all member of the Haida Nation PLAINTIFFS (Appellants) [...]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Court of Appeal for British Columbia
Description
Principal issue was obligation on the Crown and third parties to consult with an Aboriginal people who have claimed Aboriginal title about possible infringements before claim has been decided.
Report on the Health of British Columbians: Provincial Health Officer’s Annual Report 2001
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Office of the Provincial Health Officer [British Columbia]
Description
Looks at health status, community environments, healthy growth and development, physical environment, health services, and disease and injury prevention. Identifies areas where significant health benefits can be made.
Related material: Pathways to Health and Healing (Second Report).
Presents Angela White from the Indian Residential School Survivors' Society speaking on the history and impacts of residential schools.
Duration: 25:58.
Part 1.
Part 3.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 61, no. 2, 2002, pp. 104-109
Description
Study to determine the prevalence of HIV and hepatitis B infection in First Nations people entering alcohol and drug treatment centres in British Columbia.
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 105, March 2014, p. 59–66
Description
Examines the experiences of drug user patients in hospital settings and the social, structural, and environmental factors that contribute to self discharge.
Provides historical background about issues relating to the play about the murdered and missing women from the "Highway of Tears", a section of highway between Prince George and Prince Rupert, British Columbia.
Presents Angela White, from the Indian Residential School Survivors' Society speaking on the history and impacts of residential schools.
Duration: 28:52
Part 1.
Part 2.
Presentation by the Deputy Provincial Medical Officer, Dr. Evan Adams, whose mandate is to improve and monitor the health of the British Columbia's First Nations people.
Duration: 1:13:23.
Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, no. 165, October 29, 2014, pp. [1]-35
Description
Answers questions relating to Aboriginal education, what it should be and how it should differ from mainstream education. Uses British Columbia as an example.
Reports include the Esketemc First Nation Inquiry, the Fishing Lake First Nation, Chippewas of the Thames First Nation Inquiry and the Mistawasis First Nation Inquiry. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Activist argues that rather than rely on Canadian law, the principles of Indigenous law, with their emphasis of reciprocal relationships, should be used to support sex workers' safety and agency.
Duration: 34:12.
Recasting Commodity and Spectacle in the Indigenous Americas
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Selena Couture
Description
Chapter in Recasting Commodity and Spectacle in the Indigenous Americas edited by Helen Gilbert and Charlotte Gleghorn.
Looks at tourist encounters and knowledge transmission.
New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, vol. 2014, no. 142, Health and Wellness Concerns for Racial, Ethnic, and Sexual Minorities, Summer, 2014, pp. 37-47
Description
Looks HIV/Aids within the context of Canadian reserve system, effects of Indian Residential schools, and risky behaviors.