Aboriginal Peoples and the Law: "We Are All Here to Stay"
Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice Annual Conference ; 2015
The "Métis Question" in Different Legal Contexts
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Marilyn Poitras
Jason T. Madden
Description
Marilyn Poitras discusses the complex issue of identity from personal, group, legal and government perspectives.
Jason Madden discusses Métis identity in terms of case law and rights contained in Section 35 of the Constitution Act.
Duration: 37:58.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 1, Winter, 2015, pp. 1-24
Description
Investigates how Native Americans who adopted the European concept of time (mechanical) were viewed as temporal as opposed to sun time or "real Indians'.
Video includes a compilation of conversations on the strength and resilience of Métis peoples in the context of the residential school experience and its after-effects.
Duration: 9:54.
Summary of a survey on cultural planning, adoption and Aboriginal children, that looks at ways to keep children connected with their Indigenous identities.