Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Lorne Smith
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Lorraine McKay, Acting Chairperson, Native Education Advisory Committee, Brandon, Manitoba
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Louie Frank
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Louis Pilakapsi, President, Keewatin Inuit Association (Via Translator)
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Louisa Smith, North Coast Tribal Council, and Bernice Goldie
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Louise Bouvier, Yukon Indian Women's Association
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Louise Chippeway, Chairperson, Aboriginal Advisory Council
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Luke Novoligak, Kaloktutiak Co-Op, Cambridge Bay (Via Translator)
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Lyle Boland
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Maggie Hodgson
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Magnus Gunther
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Maguerite Sanderson
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Maguerite Sanderson
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Maliotenam Band Council
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Manawan Council of Women, Therese Ottawa, Delima Niquay
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Marcelle Sinclair, Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Marg Beament, NorSask Native Outreach
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Margaret Donovan, Vice-President, Gwich'in Tribal Council
Presenter discusses: the history of the Gwich'in people including the signing of Treaty 11 in 1921; land claim issues; language rights and recognition; self-governance and intergovernmental relations; and cultural, educational, and quality of life concerns.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Margaret Jackson
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Margaret Klopenberg and Christine Hoffman, North Central Alberta Crisis Intervention Association
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Margaret Teneese, Shuswap Indian Band
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Marguerite Cardin, Elder and Pierre Taillon, Directeur, Alliance autochtone, Local st-Jerome
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Marianne Roy, Arnold Goodleaf, Gail Stacy-Moore, Bern Purden, France Loiseau and Pierre Lagrenade, Comite de promotion et de survellance des droits humains a Kahnawake et communautes limitrophes
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Marianne Roy, Arnold Goodleaf, Gail Stacy-Moore, Bern Purden, France Loiseau and Pierre Lagrenade, Committee to Promote and Monitor Human Rights at Kahnawake and Neighboring Communities
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Marie Mumford, Sandra Laronde and Elaine Bomberry, Association of Native Development in the Performing and Visual Arts, Toronto, Ontario
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Marilyn Fontaine, Spokesperson, Aboriginal Women's Unity Coalition
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Marinus Dieleman and Tom Mills, Northern College
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Mario Paradis, President and Rene Boileau, Research Advisor, Association des Metis et Indiens Hors-Reserves du Quebec Inc.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Marion Lindsay, Umpherville Women's Group
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Marjorie Andersen
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Mark LaForme, Director of Self-Government, Indian Commission of Ontario
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Mark Taylor, President, Addiction Research Foundation, Toronto, Ontario
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Marlene Dolan, Tom Horvath, Wayne Stanley and Joan Cardinal-Shuber, Calgary Aboriginal Awareness Society
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Marlene Poitras
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 Marshall Murdock, Chairperson, The National Aboriginal Youth Career and Awareness Committee
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Martha Echalook
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Martha Waite, Métis Women, Northern Region II
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Marty Snelling, Young Men's Christian Association and Mary Kelleher, Co-Ordinator, Pre-Employment Program
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Marvin Conner
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Marvin Sampson, Chief Councillor, Glen Vowell Band
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Mary Ann Crow Healy
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Mary Ann Crow Healy
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Mary Anne Wilson, Skidegate Caregivers
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Mary Carpenter
Presenter from Inuvialuit claims to be at the sitting to "represent the voice of the Inuit who have been silenced by our Inuit leaders." Carpenter gives her view of the High Arctic Relocation program, and makes allegations that members of the Inuit community threatened to have her murdered if she spoke out about any issues to the Commission.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Mary Ellen Arnup, Research Officer, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Province of Alberta
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Mary Guilbeault, Vice-Chairperson, Aboriginal Council of Winnipeg
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.