Project of Heart: Illuminating the Hidden History of Indian Residential Schools in BC
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Nancy Knickerbocker]
Description
Teacher resource.
Describes Saskatchewan’s Thunderchild High School excursion trip to visit the British Columbia Sechelt Indian Band, the first Indian band to obtain and practice self government.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.33.
Gives background to the issue, discusses the reports produced by the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry, Human Rights Watch, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, and reports on the response of the federal and provincial governments.