Examines colonization of Canada, historical trauma, the criminal justice system and community healing programs.
Duration: 37:21.
Related material: Discussion Guide.
Detailed article on the life of Honoré Joseph Jaxon, known as Louis Riel's secretary immediately before the Northwest Rebellion. The article also details the unfortunate trashing of Jaxon's papers upon his death in New York City in 1952.
Presents a policy that ensures that modern treaties are implemented to protect the rights of Aboriginal signatories, ensure their continuity as peoples, and provide for their political, social, economic and cultural development.
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 8, no. 3, March 1978, p. 40
Description
Dorothy Maquabeak Francis, of the Saulteaux First Nation, now of New Westminster, B.C., was refused service in a Vancouver jewellery store, the same day she was named to the Order of Canada.
Honoring the Strength of Our Sisters: Increasing Access to Human Rights Justice For Indigenous Women and Girls
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Human Rights Commission
Description
Overview of what the Canadian Human Rights Commission heard at a series of roundtables attended by individuals and representatives from Indigenous women's organizations and service organizations. Twenty-one barriers were identified as well ideas for overcoming them.
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, 2011, pp. 132-160
Description
Discusses the gendered nature of gangs and risk factors that contribute to Aboriginal gang involvement, and examines quality prevention approaches needed to help young women, in particular, to leave the gang lifestyle.
Horse Stealing and the Borderline: The North West Mounted Police and the Control of Indian Movement, 1874-1900
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brian Hubner
Prairie Forum, vol. 20, no. 2, Fall, 1995, pp. 281-300
Description
Discusses how the North West Mounted Police (NWMP) confined and isolated First Nations peoples to reserves in an attempt to suppress their independence and culture.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 4, Fall, 2018, pp. 427-453
Description
Using the United Nations’ 1948 definition of genocide and the framework of settler colonialism as lenses, author examines the 1779 efforts of George Washington and the other military men he enlisted (Generals John Sullivan, James Clinton, Horatio Gates; Colonels Daniel Brodhead and Goose van Schaick) to “annihilate the Haudenosaunee” in order to clear lands for settler occupation.
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.
Discusses a policy initiative to reduce inconsistencies in existing policies for service providers in regard to Aboriginal peoples living with HIV/AIDS especially those moving from correctional settings to halfway houses.
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 4, Special Issue: Adoption and Indigenous Citizenship Orders, December 2018, pp. 354-364
Description
Examines the complexity of identity and community belonging in the context of the Indian Act, colonial influence, Indigenous kinship systems, contemporary spaces, and the 2016 revision of Kahnawà:ke Law on Membership regarding adoption.
Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, vol. 14, no. 1, New Series, 2003, pp. 93-116
Description
Uses a case study of aboriginal written law enacted in 1830 by the chief and council of the Mississaugas of Credit River to illustrate four different ways of interpreting a document.
File contains document entitled "Slavery" stating that French explorers accepted the practice of Canadian Indigenous people who were held as slaves, men and women captured in tribal warfare (from Encyclopedia Canadiana, page 327 (n.d.). Document stating that there is a quiet revolution happening with examples like Native Claims and Women's Liberation at centre stage.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 3-4, Pastoralism, 2009, pp. 38-47
Description
Discusses challenges faced regarding rights, equitable access to resources, leadership positions and effective and participation in community development process.
To access this article, scroll down to page 38.
The author, a member of the Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, acknowledges serious violations of the human rights of Canada's Aboriginal and Inuit peoples and hopes the proposed Canadian Government's Indian Claims legislation will improve their quality of life.
Report for the PBLI Canadian Aboriginal Law 2013 Forum, held November 25 and 27, 2013 in Ottawa. Explains the Canadian Human Rights Act, sec. 67 and Aboriginal inequality.
The Canadian Geographer, vol. 51, no. 2, Summer, 2007, pp. 186-201
Description
Author analyzes of two different legal cases involving Métis women: Foss v. Pelly and The Queen v. Corbett, examines the role that gender and race played in the culture of the Red River Colony, and in the fur trade.
Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 2, Summer, 1995, pp. 168-183
Description
Looks at relationships between Aboriginal people and Euro-Americans on the northern coast of Washington Olympic Peninsula and the trial of Mary Phillips, Xwelas, for killing her husband George Phillips.
Law Thesis (LL.M.)--York University, 2005.
Explores violence perpetrated against Helen Betty Osborne, Neil Stonechild and the Lovelace case in the negative legal context created in Canada in relation to First Nations peoples.
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 4, Special Issue: Adoption and Indigenous Citizenship Orders, December 2018, pp. 326-332
Description
Examines the nuances of adoption into Aboriginal communities within the frameworks of Nêhiyaw (Cree) law, and wahkotowin (laws of kinship). Discusses how a lack of knowledge on the part of the adoptee can lead to appropriation and extraction of Indigenous knowledge.
West Coast Line #74, vol. 46, no. 2, Reconcile This!, Summer, 2012, pp. 28-38
Description
Author discusses his works, Aboriginal Curatorial Collective Meeting and Aboriginal Advisory Circle Meeting within the context of irreconcilable spaces of Aboriginality.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll down to appropriate page.