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Archive Quarterly ~ Spring 2026

Special Feature: The Indian Act – not an AI summary. How have Indigenous Peoples survived 150 years of this? Only to have Canadian courts and politicians and public deny any dignified alternative? Perhaps because of cultural teachings, perhaps because of languages and ceremony that resonate with the land and ancestors, and probably because the Indian Act says a lot more about Canadians…

#1926 Joint Committee on the Claims of the Allied Tribes #aboriginal rights #aboriginal title #BC Indian Conference 1916 #decolonization proposal #Duncan Campbell Scott #ICCPR #Indian Act #Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement #Indigenous Peoples #Oregon Treaty 1846 #UBCIC Declaration 1976 #William Blackwater

Indian Act is 150 years old

April 12 marks the longest race-based criminalization program in modern history. From 1841 to 1867, what are today Ontario and Quebec were “The Province of Canada” – a British colony. There were laws “for the better protection of the lands and property of the Indians in Lower Canada,” and so on. The 1867 British North America Act established the Dominion of Canada, and one of its first Acts was…

#aboriginal rights #aboriginal title #Canada #Indian Act #Indigenous Peoples #Land claims

As it was said during the Constitution Express: “The authority of Indian nations does not depend on the Canadian constitution. A Canadian constitution can only accommodate Indian rights - it cannot diminish, alter or eliminate them. Such power rests only with the citizens of the various Indian nations.”

#Native title cases in Canada #White and Bob

32 recommendations pertaining directly to Indigenous Peoples, from land to racism in public schools, were given to Canada in 2017. Canada's reply and report was due in 2021, but there's no sign of it.

Fall AQ: Stein Valley - from festival to protected park. Hunting restrictions amid habitat destruction and over-harvest. Nuxalk Head Chief Statement on the 30th anniversary of the Ista blockade. Lillooet Lake roadblock 1975. The Sparrow decision turns 35 - what they were saying in 1986. World Council of Indigenous peoples first Assembly in Tse-shaht, Nuu-chah-nulth, October 1975. Canada's "Strategic Words and Tactics Team" turns "self-government" and "jurisdiction" into tools of assimilation.

The Cowichan decision in five points

Concerning, how does a declaration of Aboriginal title affect the non-Native people now living in the ancestral village of Tl’uqtinus, where Cowichan title has been judicially declared? Tl’uqtinus – tah-look-TEEN-oosh (*an approximate anglicism) – is a 1,846-acre area which overlaps the City of Richmond, lying along the Fraser River. On August 7 of this year, the Supreme Court of British…

#aboriginal title #Canada #Comprehensive Claims Policy #Cowichan #Indigenous Peoples #Land claims #Richmond #Tl&039;uqtinus

How did the National Day of Action become Canada's "Aboriginal Day"?

The Assembly of First Nations called for a National Day of Action in 2007. The call was answered in over 100 locations across Canada, where people stopped traffic, trains, and TV news on June 29th. AFN Chief Phil Fontaine made the call for immediate action to address the situation of Indigenous Peoples in Canada. At the end of the first National Day of Action, June 29, the AFN press…

#Aboriginal Day Canada #aboriginal title #Indigenous Peoples #National Day of Action

Archive Quarterly ~ journal of the west wasn't won archive project. Spring 2025 edition

#aboriginal rights #aboriginal title #Arthur Calder #BCANSI #Bill C-31 #Buffalo Jump of the 1980s #Comprehensive Claims Policy #Delgamuukw trial #First Ministers Conference 1985 #Gitxsan Wet&039;suwet&039;en #Indigenous Peoples #James Gosnell #Land claims #Methodist Missions North Pacific #Nielsen Report #Nisga&039;a #Non-Status Indian reinstatement #Papers relating to the Northwest Coast Commission 1888 #Rejection of Funds

Closing Statement of the Gitxsan and Wet'suwet'en in Delgamuukw v. The Queen

On May 14, 1990, the Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en Plaintiffs in Delgamuukw v. The Queen made their closing statements at the end of their trial. As reprinted in the United Native Nations 1990 book of their AGM presentations, they said: “We, the Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en people, are in the court to state the truth of the ownership and jurisdiction we exercise over our territories. Three…

On the record – if you can find the record!

Since 1951, when Indigenous people were allowed access to the colonial courts, the views of crown lawyers and judges are right there on the record. Here are some case files from the archive project: factums, memos, early decisions, and case summaries from the time. Most of these records are not maintained online. Only the ruling of the highest court is available, so, in cases that have been in…

#aboriginal rights #aboriginal title #Haida Nation #Indigenous Peoples #Lawfare

Archive Quarterly ~ journal of The West Wasn't Won archive project

Archive Quarterly summaries and info

This journal offers a curated collection of rare archival material in every issue: maps, timelines, new interviews, key excerpts from original docs, and more. Honouring the indomitable spirit of Indigenous Peoples west of the Rocky Mountains, the young archive documents British Columbia and Canada’s colonial project and the way it’s carried out in deliberate violation of international law,…

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#aboriginal rights #aboriginal title #Archive Quarterly #Indigenous Peoples #Sovereignty

Native Peoples Caravan, Parliament Hill, 1974

The Native Peoples Caravan arrived at Parliament Hill on Monday morning, September 30, 1974.

“The RCMP had the guns, the bayonets and the tear gas; we had a drum and a sheet of paper with our demands.” – Louis Cameron, Ojibway Warriors Society. On September 29, 1974, the Native Peoples Caravan arrived in Ottawa. From uprisings that summer at the Two Springs occupation in Secwepemc and the reoccupation of Anishinaabe Park by the Ojibway Warriors Society, the Caravan was joined by people…

#aboriginal rights #Deb Mearns #Indigenous Peoples #Louis Cameron #Native Peoples Caravan #Parliament Hill 1974 #Vern Harper

Native 9/11

September 11 siege at Gustafsen Lake 1995 29 years later, Canada evades the legal and jurisdictional issues they tried to kill along with Secwepemc leaders. Wolverine, pictured above, was not only the War Chief at Ts’peten, but Chief of Lawfare. After agreeing to a ceasefire and burning their weapons, Wolverine and a dozen other Sundance defenders walked out of their besieged camp on the…

On August 15, 1824...

The first HBC Governor west of the Rockies made his first tour of the forts with a note to himself in mind: the potential profit in Christian conversion of his newly acquired, autonomous Indigenous trading partners. On August 15, 1824, George Simpson, Governor of Hudson’s Bay Company “North” (mostly west), left Ottawa for the Oregon Territory. His mission was to make the newly acquired…

#Christian mission #Colony of British Columbia #Fort Simpson #HBC Governor Simpson #Indian Residential School #Oregon Treaty #Origin of BC #Sovereignty

Friends of Clayoquot, Summer 1994

"If we protect them we have to say "no" to industrial pollution and to the idea of safe levels of poison chemicals." - Chief Simon Lucas, Nuu-cha-nulth, excerpt from his 1988 presentation recorded in the journal.

The largest demonstration of solidarity with Indigenous Peoples and their land titles until Fairy Creek, mass arrests at Clayoquot Sound in 1993 are said to have been at least 850 persons strong. 300 arrests in one day, to stop logging in the Nuu-chah-nulth coastal old-growth forests. In 1994, the Friends of Clayoquot organization published a journal to document their thinking at the…

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#Clayoquot Sound #environmental alliance #Eva Jacobs #Friends of Clayoquot #Lavina White #mass arrests #Nuu-Chah-nulth #Simon Lucas #Valerie Langer

Archive Quarterly ~ Summer 24

Honouring the indomitable spirit of Indigenous Peoples west of the Rocky Mountains.

Featuring: A special investigation of the 1974 blockade of Highway 12, at Bonaparte, Secwepemc. After Elder James Morgan’s house burned down, and there was no access to funds or building materials to rebuild it, the Chief and dozens of others held down a narrow strip of the main transportation artery between Lillooet and the Interior – to levy a $5-per-traveller toll, raising funds to rebuild…

#aboriginal rights #aboriginal title #Bonaparte #Cache Creek 1974 #Indian Status #Indigenous Peoples #Indigenous-focused grad requirement #Jeannette Corbiere-Lavell #Kelowna Accord #Native Peoples Caravan #on-reserve housing #Transformative Change Agreement

Roadblocking for Title

Is Haida Title the same as Aboriginal title?

With the recent Haida agreement, “Rising Tides,” where British Columbia recognizes Haida title to its lands and waters as “Aboriginal title,” we are forced to wonder: is this the same “Title” that Indigenous Peoples west of the Rocky Mountains have been roadblocking, litigating, and petitioning international courts for? No doubt the Haida have little intention of relinquishing their inherent…

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#aboriginal rights #aboriginal title #Haida title #Sovereignty

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