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Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Edith Cloutier, President and Ida Labillois-Williams, Executive Director, Native Friendship Centre of Montreal and Louis Bordeleau, Vice-President, Regroupement des centres d'amitie and Roseanne Petifuay, Director General, Centre d'amitie de La Tuque

Alternate Title
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - Transcriptions of Public Hearings and Round Table Discussions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Edith Cloutier
Ida Labillois-Williams
Louis Bordeleau
Roseanne Petifuay
Description
This file contains a presentation by Edith Cloutier, Ida Labillois-Williams, Louis Bordeleau and Roseanne Petifuay relating to problems encountered by the Friendship Centre movement as it seeks to assist urban Aboriginals. The Centres have developed a significant and unique expertise that could help in establishing self-government mechanisms in the urban setting.
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Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by the Native Aid and Friendship Centre

Alternate Title
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - Transcriptions of Public Hearings and Round Table Discussions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Louis Bordeleau
Description
File contains a presentation by Louis Bordeleau of the Native Aid and Friendship Centre of Senneterre. Bordeleau discusses the operations of his friendship centre which deals with support to drug addicts, help for the disadvantaged, liaison services in education and health care, organization of recreational activities, inter-ethnic awareness-raising, participation in socio-economic development, and the people they service who come from the Cree (50 percent), Algonquin (28 percent), and Atikamekw (22 percent) cultural backgrounds.
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