Special Features
This section presents special events related to CAP and articles or other information apart from CAP's regular programs and agenda.
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Special Features This section presents special events related to CAP and articles or other information apart from CAP's regular programs and agenda. |
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The Latest Issue of The Forgotten People! The 2004 first quarter issue of the Forgotten People in English is now online as an Acrobat PDF document at this link ou en Français cliquer ici. Previous editions are also available from this link. Custom Tabulation Maps from Census Canada CAP has commissioned a series of maps from Statistics Canada to show the the growth and distribution of the constituency of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples. In addition to the increasingly urban presence of Aboriginal peoples in Canada, the maps also demonstrate the dominant proportions of Aboriginal to Non-Aboriginal peoples in many and very large parts of Canada. To explore these intriguing trends,click here. Legal Section Given the increasing role of courts in the determination of Aboriginal rights, the legal and case law elements of CAPonline are now organized under a specific section. The latest additions to this section are: a set of 65 links to legal Aboriginal cases and analysis; Marshall case texts and impact; and the presentation of the Text factum in the recent rejection of an appeal in the Blais Metis hunting case in Manitoba.
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Legal Section
A penetrating and scathing attack on INAC policy relating to recently registered Indians under Bill C-31, this article by Harry W. Daniels exposes the real agenda behind a piece of legislation that was presented to the Canadian public as a fair solution to the overt discrimination of pre-1985 policy under the Indian Act. Using INAC's own statistics, the article makes it clear that Bill C-31 has set the stage for a new crisis in coming decade. Click on the title or this link to read or download the article. Another version of this article formatted as speaking notes for a presentation to the National Aboriginal Women's Association is also included. Aboriginal Artists Featured - Revised Format The Urban Aboriginal Experience Throuugh The Works of Aboriginal Artists was produced as a project funded by the Digitial Collection program sponsored by Industry Canada and Schoolnet. Selected Aboriginal artists and their work are presented in this new feature section. The format of the site has been changed for a more dramatic and consistent presentation. 1979 Declaration of Metis and Indian Rights Table
of Contents Our second special feature of CAP Online presents one of the primary documents that launched the Native Council of Canada into the national constitutional spotlight. It was the first formal prounouncement of any national Aboriginal organization to insist that the patriation of Canada's Constitution could not take place without full and meaningful Aboririginal participation. Another valuable contribution of the document is a collection of appendicies which contain the texts of curcial documents in the history of Metis claims. This document is the first of a series of documents which will eventually be separated into an historical archive section of this site. The Declaration itself is currently being updated to reflect events since the original publication of the Declaration. |
        
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