This cartoon became a popular Internet meme around 2012-2013. The cartoon features a road sign that says, "Welcome to Canada, where we don't care who you marry so long as you both watch hockey" It speaks to the idea that Canadians are bound…
This is a video about the ProAction Hockey League, which is part of the broader Cops and Kids program run by Toronto Police Services. Members of Toronto's 54 Division coach kids from the Thorncliffe and Flemington Park neighbourhoods in Toronto. The…
This is a photograph of an Indigenous man holding a sign that says "No Indians beyond this point" on land that is claimed as traditional territory of the Secwepemc nation. The territory in question is called Skwelkwek'welt, and is the high alpine…
This decision of the British Columbia Court of Appeal addressed whether a provincial land titles Registrar properly refused to attached a note of "lis pendens" (pending litigation) to the title of land slated to be developed into recreational…
This is an article from the magazine, Canadian Dimension. It describes tensions between Secwepemc, Neskonlith and Adams Lake bands and developers seeking to build Sun Peak recreation facilities for golf and skiing on the traditional territories of…
From the First Nation Literacy YouTube page: "Long ago, after the Great Mystery, or Kitchi-Manitou, first put people on the earth, the Anishinabe, or Original People, strayed from their peaceful ways. They began to argue and fight with one another.…
This is an illustration that accompanied a Book Review published in The Walrus magazine, online: https://thewalrus.ca/trouble-on-turtle-island/ The books canvassed in the Book Review were: Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of…
From the website (http://sidait-atris.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/atris_online/home-accueil.aspx#): ATRIS is a Web-based information system intended to map out the location of Aboriginal communities and display information pertaining to their potential or…
This three-part video series tells the story of Tsilhqot'in Nation Elders as they journey from their home territory (located within British Columbia) to the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario.
Notably, in the Tsilhqot'in Nation v. British…
From the Red Man Laughing, "Land" podcast (July 25, 2016), online: https://www.redmanlaughing.com/listen/2016/7/red-man-laughing-land "In this episode of Red Man Laughing, Ryan turns the microphone on himself to share three stories that might shine a…
This website contains interactive maps related to Indigenous peoples in Canada. This collection includes: a Story Map, two History Maps, a Treaties and Land Claims map, a Present Day: First Nations map, and a Present Day: Inuit Map.
From the Government of Ontario, "Ontario First Nations Maps" web page, online: https://www.ontario.ca/page/ontario-first-nations-maps :
The Ontario First Nations map shows the locations of:
First Nation communities: listed by band number and…
The following description is adapted from Onondaga Nation, People of the Hills, "Two Row Wampum – Gusweñta", online: http://www.onondaganation.org/culture/wampum/two-row-wampum-belt-guswenta/ Two rows of blue, each symbolizing a different nation.…
From the website of the Government of Canada, Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, "250th Anniversary of the Royal Proclamation of 1763": "On October 7, 1763, King George III issued a Royal Proclamation establishing a new administrative structure…
Sections 25 and 35 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms address how rights protected under the Charter will intersect with existing rights held by Canada's Indigenous peoples. Section 25 guarantees that no rights protected under the…
From the website: "As a legacy of the colonisation of North America by France and Great Britain, two legal traditions co-exist in Canada – civil law in Quebec and common law in all other provinces and territories. The Department of Justice is…
This set of FAQs seeks to clarify the concepts of legal dualism and bilingual bisystemism. From this report: "Legal dualism is the explicative theory built on the coexistence of two legal systems of private law within the Canadian legal framework;…
