Lexeywa - PDF Class Set
Lexeywa ~ I Pass the Torch to You
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Beatrice Silver tells the story of her childhood as a Sto:lo girl in Sumas. Leaving home to live at Indian Residential School was an inevitable event, and all her older siblings had already been attending for many years. They never talked about the school but her brothers prepared her for it by teaching her boxing! This story allows the reader to walk in the little shoes of a girl who survived the infamous school by force of will; confidence in the love of her family; and the strength of her identity.
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Keywords:
Indian Residential School
Reconciliation
First Nations Studies
This book was developed from Beatrice Silver's presentations to a high school class during her semester as the guest instructor of an Art Activism class at Robert Bateman Secondary School, Abbotsford, British Columbia. The students' paintings are included in the book, with the kind permission of the Abbotsford School District.
Approval of this book as Ministry-recommended curriculum material is pending.
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Migration - Educational materials for teachers
A license for up to 40 students to a PDF version of the full book, "Migration, Displacement, and Redress ~ A Japanese Canadian Perspective," Tatsuo Kage, Selected Writings.
Class Set PDF - They Made Me An Outlaw! by Bill Lightbown
They Made Me An Outlaw! ...I became a freedom fighter
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Bill Lightbown came into the world April 14, 1927. He lived as a non-status Indian because his Kutenai mother married a non-native man.
Bill’s experience of discrimination and displacement was a defining force. His fight for freedom began when he was jailed for vagrancy (being an Indian in an alley at night) at the age of eighteen. After breaking out of jail, twice, he soon got involved in politics. His work for Indigenous Peoples' organizations, including co-founding the United Native Nations, spans more than 70 years.
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Keywords:
Reconciliation
Non-Status Indian
United Native Nations
Indigenous Sovereignty
Gustafsen Lake
This book was developed from a decade of recorded interviews. The text is a transcription of those interviews, with the interviewer's words removed, so it reads as if Bill is telling his story directly to the reader.
The book includes interesting archival images of news clippings, engagement calendars (very busy and diverse), government reports and position papers, memos from the Department of Indian Affairs, UNN resolutions, and pictures from Bill's life. It also includes appendices: excerpts from the 1927 Report of the Canadian Parliament's Special Joint Commission into the Claims of the Allied Indian Tribes of British Columbia; transcript from the 1985 First Ministers' Conference on the Constitution; a 1994 interview with Lavina White, Haida, concerning Indigenous sovereignty; and a c.1930 news piece detailing Bill's grandfather's life, on the occasion of his death.
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Class Set PDF - Ongoing Genocide..., by Bruce Clark
...Judicial Suppression of the "Existing" Aboriginal Right
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Keywords:
Canada Constitutional Law
Genocide in Canada
Aboriginal Rights
Indigenous
Dr. Bruce Clark is an expert in Constitutional Law and practiced law for forty years in Canada. He is the author of two other books. He summarizes the content of this book:
"Jurisprudentially, there are two values that compete for paramountcy in judicial decision-making: to serve truth or, alternatively, fairness. In the aboriginal context, the Canadian judges seem to be trying to be fair to the vast majority of people and the building of their nation, at the expense of the constitutional truth.
"This is apparent when you consider the Supreme Court of Canada's interpretation of section 35(1) of the Constitution Act, 1982 in the leading 2014 case, Tsilhqot'in. Section 35(1) says: “The existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal peoples of Canada are hereby recognized and affirmed.”
"The Court interpreted section 35(1) to mean the judges have to balance the national interest against the aboriginal interest. In the result, the judges overrode the "existing" aboriginal rights that section 35(1) expressly and explicitly placed beyond the reach of the courts to repeal. Yet section 35(1) says nothing about such a judicial discretion to repeal the saved "existing" aboriginal rights. The judges simply invented, out of thin air, a power of repeal of those aboriginal rights constitutionally placed beyond the jurisdiction of judicial repeal.
"That is the struggle behind the struggle. The structural integrity of the rule of law and the status of the constitutional democracy have been destroyed by the tension between the law as it is written, and the new “law” as the judges recently invent it.
"That is what this book is about. That is the seemingly unsolvable problem: how to rescue the truth from feelings of fairness. The solution to that problem is independent and impartial adjudication, which is missing from native and newcomer litigation. It must be brought into existence lest bias rule instead of the law."
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