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Eskimo Education and the Trauma of Social Change
Eskimo Housing as Planned Culture Change
Government Policies of Education for the Native Peoples of Siberia and the Canadian Northwest Territories, 1900-1990: A Historical Examination
Homeless in a Homeland: Housing (In)Security and Homeless in Inuvik and Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
Indian Brotherhood of the Northwest Territories / and / Metis and Non-Status Native Association of the Northwest Territories - Press release. - 2 July 1974.
The Indian Missionary Record (Vol. XIX, No. 6, June, 1956)
The Indian Missionary Record (Vol. XVII, No. 5, May, 1954)
Indian Record (Vol. 36, Nos. 6-7, July-August, 1973)
Indian Record (Vol. XXI, No. 7, September, 1958)
The Meaning of Education for Inuvialuit in Tuktoyaktuk, NWT, Canada
Moving Towards Saimaqatigiingniq
Residential School System in Canada: Understanding the Past – Seeking Reconciliation – Building Hope for Tomorrow: Teacher's Guide
Residential Schooling at Fort Chipewyan and Fort Resolution 1874-1973
Residential Schooling in the Arctic: A Historical Case Study and Perspective
The Roots of Inuktitut-Language Bilingual Education
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples 91: Northern United Place Hall, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Bonita Chlow, Ingamo Hall Friendship Centre
Presenter discusses the need for: literacy programs in the community, hands-on practically oriented education programs, low-level educational and life skills training, alcoholism counselling services, detox centre; problems with increasingly limited hospital facilities and a lack of psychiatric facilities; the need for a local victim assistance service organization in the community; as well as financial and staffing concerns at the Friendship Centre itself. Following the presentation Jimmy Omilgoituk comments on related education matters in the community.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Deninu Kue First Nation, Closing Prayer
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Eileen Koe
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Emma Robert
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Francois Paulette
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Hay River Treatment Centre, Roy Fabian
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Jacob Feenstra, Summer Institute of Linguistics
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by James Cardinal
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Marlene Villebrun, Canadian Mental Health Association
Villebrun discusses discrimination and low self-esteem issues; alcohol and drug abuse; the need to make Aboriginal history mandatory and a priority in Canadian schools; the intergenerational effects of cultural deprivation; and the need to better equip youth for "living in two cultures."
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Mary Jane Adamson and Billy Day, Inuvialuit Communications Society
Adamson discusses the importance of Aboriginal broadcasting to not only Aboriginal but non-Aboriginal Canadians as an educational and cross-cultural understanding tool; language and educational issues; and job training in broadcasting. Billy Day comments on trapping in Inuvik; the impact of the animal rights movement on the trapping economy; land claims and conservation; relations with the RCMP; as well as education and the impact of residential schooling in the North on Aboriginal languages. Following the presentation the assembled Commissioners discuss some of the issues raised.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Rita Arey, President, Northwest Territories Status of Women, Closing Remarks, and Closing Prayer
The file contains a presentation on by President Rita Arey of the Northwest Territories Status of Women organization, closing remarks and a closing prayer. President Arey presents on her organization's work on behalf of women and specifically the challenges facing Aboriginal women in the Northwest Territories.
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 Council for Persons with Disabilities, Donna Harrison
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by the Honourable Stephen Kafkwi, Government of the Northwest Territories, Minister for Intergovernmental and Aboriginal Affairs
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by the Metis Nation of the Northwest Territories
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation on behalf of the NWT Office of the Language Commissioner by Commissioner Betty Harnum
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation on behalf of the South River First Nation by Jerry Paulette, Chief
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation on Behalf of the Student Association of Arctic College
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentations by Cheryl Greenland, Gwich'in Youth and Eugene Pascal, Chief, Aklavik Indian Band
Greenland discusses Gwich'in language and culture, post-secondary education, and general youth concerns. Chief Pascal discusses the Mackenzie Delta region and its' significance; the legacy of cultural destruction; the importance of self-determination and self-governance; language education; the need for program development for the Gwi'chin of the Mackenzie Delta including "treaty, non-status, Metis;" a land claim agreement and its' particulars; and the need to decentralize powers from the federal and territorial governments back to the Gwich'in people.