Indigenous status in Canada has a complex and messy history. For decades, government policies, particularly the Indian Act, have stripped Indigenous peoples of their legal recognition. Laws like Bill C-31 were especially unfair and sexist, causing many Indigenous people – especially women – to lose their status due to marriage. This loss had generational consequences, […]
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Looking Through the Lense of Anthropology 🔍
B.C. First Peoples is a very interconnected course where every bit of information we learn connects and builds upon our previous learnings in meaningful ways to deepen our understanding. At this point in our BCFP journey, we started by exploring the many branches of anthropology and their importance in understanding human societies; afterwards, we then […]
Let’s take ReconciliACTION – BCFP 11
Hello and Happy New Year!! First blog of 2025… my New Year’s resolutions will be to write better intros for my blog… but i’ll work on that later. Let’s get crackin In BCFP 11, our learning journey began with the history and impacts of colonialism on indigenous peoples in Canada; with our first project focusing […]
The Road to Rights – BCFP 11
My first project of BCFP… I was interested to start this course as it allows us to dive deeper into the history of Indigenous Peoples in Canada. In socials, we typically touch on this history in one unit, but this course allows us to explore it in greater detail throughout the whole term. In this […]