Indigenous Affairs, no. 1, Racism, 2001, pp. 16-23
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Reports on the historical United States government policy towards Native Americans over the past 200 years.
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File contains a presentation by Clara Schinkel and Peter Sidney, Tagish Governance Society. Schinkel describes the history of the Tagish people and their community (including the seizure of their reserve lands by the government), and makes specific requests to the Commission in terms of assistance, self-governance, education, and land claims. Sidney and Schinkel discuss some of the issues raised with the assembled Commissioners.