Book review of: Indian Education in Canada. Volume 2: The Challenge. Nakoda Institute Occasional Paper No. 2 edited by Jean Barman, Yvonne Hebert, Don McCaskill
Historical Papers (Canadian Society of Church History) ; 1993
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Comments on two residential schools operated by the Women's Missionary Society (Western Division)
Chapter from Historical Papers 1993: Canadian Society of Church History edited by Bruce L. Guenther.
Paper presents 3 objectives: to determine factors which encouraged the Hudson Bay Company and Church Missionary Society to offer education and Christian instruction to Indian children; to look at students experiences, acquisition and treatment; to assess changing priorities and focuses of educational programs in Rupertsland.
This file contains a portion of a transcript of a sitting of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples at Hotel Saskatchewan, Regina, Saskatchewan. This portion of the Commission includes a presentation by Walter Stonechild concerning various issues of the Aboriginal Community. Questions from the assembled commissioners are also present. In addition brief comments and the closing prayer are also present.