Archived Articles

– Consultation Standards in BC – or – The Trilogy of Despair   August 2009

– BC’s Got Time.   June 2010

– About the Airport    August 2008

BC treaty process

– BC Treaty Advocate Elected Chair of UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 2012

Comprehensive Claims – Policy and Protest

– Comprehensive Claims – policy & protest

Government Commissions

Indian Claims Commission 1963 – Liberal election promise broken

– Confidential Report of the Royal Commission on Indian Affairs for the Province of British Columbia, 1916

Gustafsen Lake Siege, 1995 (Ts’peten Defense, Secwepemc)

Gustafsen Lake 1995 standoff    Newspaper clippings and press releases 1995-2005

Indigenous Declarations

Nuxalk Nation Position 1995

Lil’wat BCR 1989: to dissolve imposed ‘Indian Act’ band council

Líl’wat Nation Declaration January 14, 1983

“ALL OUR RELATIONS” A DECLARATION OF THE SOVEREIGN INDIGENOUS NATIONS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

Gitksan-Carrier (Wet’suwet’en) Declaration, 1977

Carrier Sekani Declaration, 1982

Cowichan Petition, 1909

Declaration of Secwepemc Sovereignty, 1983

Nishga Declaration 1980

Elders Position Okanagan Nation, 1981

– CLAIMS OF THE ALLIED INDIAN TRIBES, B.C. 1919

– British Columbia Indian Conference, Vancouver, 1916

– Declaration of the Lillooet Tribe, May 1911

– Memorial to Frank Oliver, Minister of the Interior, 1911

– Memorial to Wilfred Laurier, 1910

– Declaration of the Tahltan Tribe, 1910 

– The Declaration of the Indian Chiefs in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, 1910

– Petition of the Chiefs of the Lower Fraser, 1874

Media: Letters and Articles

– Missionary to Editor of Victoria Standard (BC newspaper), 1874

On Reserve

– Chapter 5 of The Colonial Present: “On Reserve” 2013

Opinion

“Civil Courage Award” goes to would-be assassin of Sundancers – 2015

– The Power Has Too Much Media 2014

Reports

– Confidential Report of the Royal Commission on Indian Affairs for the Province of British Columbia, 1916

The Colonial Present

– Bibliography 2013

UN Engagement

–  Lil’wat Roadblock 1990 -to- Lil’wat statement to UN 2015.

– UN report misses the mark on Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, Truth and Reconciliation Commission 2014

– UN Special Report on Indigenous Peoples in Canada 2014

Union of BC Indian Chiefs

George Manuel addressing the Union of BC Municipalities, 1977

“ALL OUR RELATIONS” A DECLARATION OF THE SOVEREIGN INDIGENOUS NATIONS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

– UBCIC Aboriginal Rights Position Paper, 1979

– A brief timeline of the life of: The Union of BC Indian Chiefs