Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Gloria Christmas, Native Justice Court Worker

File contains a presentation by Gloria Christmas, Native Justice Court Worker. Christmas, after a brief description of her job, makes a series of recommendations to the Commission on hiring Aboriginal interpreters, Aboriginal court workers, and Aboriginal corrections personnel, in the justice system. Christmas also recommends that culturally appropriate sentencing and counselling arrangements, the establishment of rehabilitation centres for young offenders on reserve, and the government showing "more considerations for Natives living off reserves." Following the presentation Commissioners Erasmus and Robinson discuss the recommendations and associated issues with Christmas.
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1992-11-04
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University of Saskatchewan Archives, Native Law Centre fonds, Reference Library, RCAP vol. 62 (Box 9); records from Our Legacy site, http://scaa.sk.ca/ourlegacy
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