Apartheid: Canada's Ugly Secret
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Tanis Fiss
Description
Examines the reserve system and the need to abolish this system of segregation within Canada.
Recounts the life and works of Monik Sioui, founder of the Quebec Native Women's Association and advocate for rights of Aboriginal people.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.38.
Speakers discuss how the Act has defined the government's and Crown's relationship with First Nations peoples; how it has impeded development of communities; and how fundamental changes are needed to give First Nations' control over governance and the ability to develop mechanisms to improve access to capital.
Duration: 1:09:15.
Chronology of the laws that created and enforced Indian Residential Schools.