Discusses coiled root, twined, and plaited baskets and identifies unique design features associated with the First Nations that produced them. Attempts to use this information to identify provenance of selected specimens in the White Rock Museum Maccaud collection.
Website contains links to training workshops, a lending library, rotating curriculum boxes, a traveling child care advisor, annual conferences, and newsletters for Aboriginal early childhood programs.
Developed to assist communities and educators in providing a holistic curriculum for appropriate lifestyle, nutrition, and physical activity to support children's well-being and development in the community and classroom environment.
Website contains early intervention strategies providing ideas and examples to enhance early childhood (birth to six years old) development; six components: culture and language, education, health promotion, nutrition, parent and family involvement and social support.
The International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard University
Description
Discusses the environmental damage that mining, including exploration, has caused the Takla Lake First Nation. The paper includes an overview of international and domestic Aboriginal rights law; analyzes the problems mining raises for First Nations; and concludes that structural, procedural, and substantive legal reforms are needed.
BC Journal of Ecosystems and Management, vol. 10, no. 3
Description
Looks at the parallels that exist between structures of traditional Indigenous resource management systems and those based in western science to develop forest practice standards in the coastal temperate rainforest in Clayoquot Sound.
Resource contains general guidelines and specific recommendations for personnel who facilitate student transitions and retention. Topics include admissions, financial and cultural services, academic support, and maintaining institutional and community relationships.
Minister of Healthy Living and Sport (British Columbia)
Description
Follow-up to the Transformative Change Accord: First Nations Health Plan (TCA: FNHP). Outlines basic commitments and processes needed to develop an administrative structure which would enable First Nations to exercise greater control over the delivery of services.
Outlines the progresses made to advance all aspects of the new First Nations health governance structure and the actions needed to improve health services in BC.
Report prepared for the Legal Services Society of British Columbia makes recommendations in four key areas: Aboriginal representation within the society, improving access to services, communication and outreach, and Aboriginal involvement in program planning.
Discusses the strategic plan that includes enhancing capacity within First Nation governance, encourages access to education, assists British Columbia First Nations to protect and revive their languages and cultures, supports initiatives that engage youth and elders, and advances economic development opportunities.
Let Right Be Done: Aboriginal Title, the Calder Case, and the Future of Indigenous Rights
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Christina Godlewska
Jeremy Webber
Law and Society Series
Description
Commentary on the pivotal case which established that title was a right recognized by Canadian law.
Chapter from: Let Right Be Done: Aboriginal Title, the Calder Case, and the Future of Indigenous Rights edited by Hamar Foster, Heather Raven, Jeremy Webber.
Indigenous Law Journal, vol. 8, no. 1, 2010, pp. 81-94
Description
Discusses ramifications of the courts' ruling on a case which alleged discrimination on the part of the federal government's Pilot Sales Program, a program which allowed Aboriginals preferential treatment not only for sustenance salmon fishing, but for commercial purposes as well.
Website contains information on the destruction of Aboriginal heritage trees by industrial logging and it impact on First Nations identity and culture. Includes links to resources on totem poles and European trees,and related stories, digital media, and galleries.