Speech by Assembly of First Nations National Chief Phil Fontaine to the Canadian Club in Ottawa about poverty, residential schools and how these issues are affecting the people today. 9 minutes.
Lakota family violence expert and one of the founders of the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, speaks at the North Michigan University's Uniting Neighbors in the Experience of Diversity (UNITED) Conference on September 23, 2008.
Letters and circulars from M. Christianson, General Superintendent of Agencies; T.R.L. McInnes, Secretary, Office of the General Superintendent; Harold W. McGill, Director; all of the Indian Affairs Branch, Department of Mines and Resources. Also included are letters from R.S. Davis, Indian Agency, Punnichy, Saskatchewan; and F.C. Middleton, MD, Deputy Registrar General, Department of Public Health, Government of Saskatchewan.
Multiplying and Dividing: Tuberculosis in Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand
RA&L-e ; no.3, 2008
Research in Anthropology & Linguistics-e ; no. 3, 2008
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Paul Hackett
Description
Highlights several factors including inability of government and church to protect children and the conflict between economics of running the schools and medical personnel.
Chapter 10 from: Multiplying and Dividing: Tuberculosis in Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand edited by Judith Littleton, Julie Park, Ann Herring and Tracy Farmer.
Scroll down to page 113 to read chapter.
Folder contains newspaper clippings relating to trade with Indigenous persons near Moose Jaw in 1884, Indigenous weddings,agriculture, and the death of Chief Whitecap.
Contends that sufficient evidence exists that Indigenous peoples of Canada and Australia have been victims of "genocide".
Entire journal on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 57.
Discusses issues of human rights abuse towards Aboriginal women and children, and describes how various policies and practices have had a negative impact on many lives.
Brief news story discusses history of residential schools, the apology by the Minister of Indian Affairs and some solutions to problems on the Indian Brook Reserve in Nova Scotia. Includes synopsis.
Duration: 5:13
All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward, Lecture 1
[2018 CBC Massey Lectures]
[Ideas with Paul Kennedy]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Tanya Talaga
Description
Tanya Talaga, prize-winning journalist and author of Seven Fallen Feathers delivers the first of the 2018 Massey Lectures in Thunder Bay.
In this lecture Talaga links the similarities between contemporary nations with a history of colonization and describes some of the effects for Indigenous peoples and communities.
Duration: 53:59
Four women from across Canada who are artists, scholars, activists discuss topics such as racism, leadership, contemporary life, culture, popular misconceptions about Aboriginal peoples, and cross cultural relations.
Duration: 1:22:38.