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Banned Practice: The Potlatch and British Columbia, 1803-1953
Compilation of primary documents.
A Brief History and Potential Future Vision for Additions to Reserves
Canadian Inuit in a Mixed Economy: Thoughts on Seals, Snowmobiles, and Animal Rights
D.C. Scott's View of History & the Indians
Discusses the seeming inconsistencies between Scott's actions as a bureaucrat for the Dept. of Indian Affairs, and the attitudes expressed in his poetry.
Document One: Memorandum for the Hon[uorable] the Indian Commissioner Relative to the Future Management of Indians
Memorandum written July 20, 1885 by Hayter Reed, Assistant Indian Commissioner to Indian Commissioner, Edgar Dewdney outlining policies appropriate to the post-rebellion era. The document is divided in two parts: on the right is text of the memorandum and on the left comments written by Edgard Dewdney.See also Document Two: Reply to the Above Memorandum
Document Two: Reply to the Above Memorandum
Economic Recovery in Response to Worldwide Crises: Fiduciary Responsibility and the Legislative Consultative Process with Respect to Bill 150 (Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009) and Bill 197 (COVID-19 Economic Recovery Act, 2020) in Ontario, Canada
Discusses the consultation, or lack there of, between the Canadian government and its Indigenous populations in regards to green energy policies.
Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report
Group Rights, Democracy and the Plural Society: the Case of Canada's Aboriginal Peoples
History through a Native Lens
Timeline of significant events, government policies, and resistance movements in the United States from 3000 BC through to 2020.
Indian Policy in the New Conservative Government, Part 1: The Nielsen Task Force of 1985
Indian Policy in the New Conservative Government, Part II: The Nielsen Task Force in the Context of Recent Policy Initiatives
Indian Self-Rule: First-Hand Accounts of Indian-White Relations from Roosevelt to Reagan
Indigenous Gender-Based Analysis of Bill S-3 and the Registration Provisions of the Indian Act: Final Report
Indigenous Rights Recognition in BC: Collection of Key Policies, Laws and Standards
Invasion and Resistance: Native Perspectives of the Kamloops Indian Residential School
The Mining Frontier and Transportation in the North: Analogies to Alaska
Mistress Madeleine
A Narrow Vision: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Administration of Indian Affairs in Canada
NSR Comment on Weaver
NSR Comment on Weaver
NSR Comment on Weaver
NSR Reply
[Orange Shirt Day (Residential Schools)]
Power Point presentation deals with the Métis residential school experience. Can be used with Grades 5-12.
Our Land: Native Rights in Canada
[Reserve Pass Lesson Plan: Social Studies 8]
Uses archival material as a starting point to teach about the influence of the treaty relationship on Canadian identity and how historical events have shaped contemporary Canadian identity.
Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child
Sechelt Indian Band Self-Government Act
Self-Government or Self-Delusion? Brian Mulroney and Aboriginal Rights
Summary of the 2022 Federal Engagement on First Nations Police Services Legislation: What We Heard Report
“This Spurious Philanthropy”: Indian Policy, Food and Canada’s North-West As Discussed in the Senate of Canada in 1886
"The evidence provided to this commission provides an interesting record of thoughts by the government and (mostly non-Indigenous, male) experts about food, Indigenous people and the Canadian North-West ten years after the near-extinction of the buffalo."
"To Christianize and Civilize": Settler Motives and Residential Schools
Compilation of primary sources which represent the settler's perspectives on the schools.