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IdleNoMoreMedia, the creator of this video, provides the following description:
"This summer the Supreme Court of Canada made a historic ruling that the Tsilhqot'in Indigenous nation in British Columbia holds Aboriginal title to its traditional…
This is a hyperlink to the 2014 Supreme Court of Canada decision in Tsilhqot’in Nation v. British Columbia. In Tsilhqot’in Nation v. British Columbia, the Supreme Court of Canada established Aboriginal title for the Tsilhqot’in Nation. The case…
Tags: Aboriginal legal tradittions, canada, Indigenous land rights, residential schools, Truth and Reconciliation Commission
This video remembers and honours survivors of the Canadian residential schools.
Tags: Aboriginal legal traditions, canada, First Nations, Indigenous land rights, legal systems, treaties
This infographic provides information about pre-1975 treaties with First Nations in Canada.
From Library and Archives Canada: "Medal presented to Indian chiefs to commemorate Treaty Numbers 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8. Year digit would be added following inscribed: "187" Treaty digit would be added following inscribed "INDIAN TREATY NO" This medal…
Tags: canada, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, constitutional law, Indigenous land rights, Indigenous law, legal order
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…
Tags: 1763, canada, history, Indigenous land rights, Indigenous law, Indigenous Peoples, Royal Proclamation
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…
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.…
This map of Canada illustrates the territory covered by treaties with Indigenous Peoples in Canada.
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…
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.
Tags: canada, First Nations, history, Indigenous land rights, Indigenous Peoples, Lake Ontario, story telling, Toronto
This blog post tells the story of Lake Ontario. The blog as a whole focuses on the Aboriginal history of Toronto using story telling.
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 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…
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…
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 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 photograph captures part of the Secwepemc protest at Skwelkwek’welt, the traditional alpine region where the Secwepemc engaged in hunting and gathering activities. Skwelkwek’welt is also the site of the Sun Peaks resort. The photo shows a…
This is a photograph of an Indigenous man being arrested at Skwelkwek'welt, the location of the Sun Peaks resort development. This man and many others were arrested for protesting at Skwelkwek'welt and for attempting to defend this land, which is…
This is a photograph of Iroquois Chiefs from the Six Nations Reserve reading Wampum belts
This is a replica of the One Dish One Spoon Wampum, which established an agreement to share resources of territories in vast regions of the Great Lakes peacefully among a number of Indigenous nations, including the Anishinaabek and Haudenosaunee.