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Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Brenda Bernhardt-Mcnabb, NWT Council of Friendship Centres, Chairperson
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Cece McAuley and Closing Remarks
McCauley comments on Aboriginal staffing issues with the Inuvik RCMP, as well as job training and government employment generally in Northern communities. Following McCauley's comments is a general discussion between Commissioners John Holman and preceding presenter George Gillies on Inuvik hospital maintenance costs.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Deputy Minister Joe Hanly on behalf of the NWT Minister of Renewable Resources
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Elizabeth Hansen, Councillor, Inuvik Native Band
Presenter discusses the importance of promoting, preserving, and maintaining Gwich'in cultural heritage and issues such as economic development, housing, social services, alcoholism, drug, and solvent abuse, justice and health services.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Emma Robert
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Garth Wallbridge
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by George Gillies, Inuvik Regional Hospital
In response to a question by Commissioner Allan Blakeney, Gillies discusses the amount of health staff in the Mackenzie Delta area including the proportion of Aboriginal employees, and their positions. Commissioner Mary Sillett also asks a staffing question, and then preceding presenter Patricia Lowe and Allan Blakeney discuss northern community staffing issues.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Hay River Metis Nation, Rocky Simpson
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Joyce Rabesca
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Leslie Knight
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Mary Rose Maksagak, Councillor, Hamlet of Cambridge Bay
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Mary Teya, Community Health Representative
Presentation discusses: health staffing concerns; alcoholism; the community's Concerned Persons Committee; suicide; running water, sewage, and basic infrastructure for Aboriginal people.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Patricia Lowe, Society of Friends Against Family Violence
Lowe discusses the society's work promoting the establishment of a shelter for battered women and children in Inuvik over the past four years, and why such a facility is needed.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Sara Jerome
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Soaring Eagle Friendship Centre, Abbey Crook
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by the Hay River Chamber of Commerce
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by the Hay River Corridor Group
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by the Minister Responsible for the NWT Housing Corporation, Government of the Northwest Territories, Hon. Don Morin
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by the Town of Hay River, Red McBryan
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by the Women's Resource Centre
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by William Koe Councillor, Tetlin Gwi'ichin Council
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation of Discussion Paper K, Lynn Chabot
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation on behalf of the Inuvik Regional Multicultural Society, Louis Beck and Simon Jozzy
Beck discusses "the society and what it stands for" through the use of a parable. Simon Jozzy discusses what the multicultural society means to him personally as an immigrant to Canada and stresses that "learning and education is the foundation of understanding." Beck then goes on to discuss racism and combatting it, while Jozzy adds the need for increased education and the important role that parents play in forming children's attitudes about race. Following the presentation the assembled Commissioners discuss the organization and some of the issues raised.