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Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
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Mindy J. Morgan
American Anthropologist, vol. 119, no. 3, September 2017, pp. 435-447
Description
Looks at authors and articles appearing in the periodical published by the Office of Indian Affairs during the 1930s. It served as a forum for intradisciplinary debates, particularly in the emerging subfield of applied anthropology.
ayisīnowak: A Communication Guide: kâ-isi-pîkiskwâtoyahk
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
City of Saskatoon
Description
Guide intended to increase understanding, respect and awareness of Aboriginal culture and protocols in order to create improved relationship building.
"Digital update: May 2018."
Canada's Northern Communication Policies: The Role of Aboriginal Organizations
Alternate Title
Shifting Terrain: Nonprofit Policy Advocacy in Canada
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Rob McMahon
Heather E. Hudson
Lyle Fabian
Description
Looks at how Indigenous-led initiatives have dealt with the lack of private sector investment in provision of information and communication technologies in the region due to its sparse population and remote locations.
Chapter from Shifting Terrain: Nonprofit Policy Advocacy in Canada edited by Nick J. Muléandd Gloria C. DeSantis.
Civilization, Law, and Customary Diplomacy: Arguments Against Removal in Cherokee and Seneca Letters to the Federal Government
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Claudia B. Haake
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 4, no. 2, 2017, pp. 31-51
Description
Compares the strategies used by the Cherokees and the Senecas and notes the similarities and differences.
Education Work: Canadian Schools and the Emergence of Indigenous Social Movements
Theses
Author/Creator
Cameron Riopelle
Description
Sociology Theses (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2017.
[The Future of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Broadcasting: Conversation & Convergence Series: Edmonton Gathering, April 21st, 2017]
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Chelsea Vowel
Molly Swain
Lauren Crazybull
Jodi Stonehouse
Les Carpenter
Rob McMahon
Michael Lithgow
Description
Includes links to program, summary, and audio of three panel discussions.
Pt. 1:
World-Building in the Dystopian Now: Imagining and Podcasting Indigenous Futures featuring Chelsea Vowel, Molly Swain, and Lauren Crazybull.
Review of conversations in Winnipeg and Iqaluit.
Pt. 2:
Revitalizing Indian Story-telling in the Media featuring Jodi Stonehouse.
Discussion on Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CTRC) process and policy.
Pt.
[[The Future of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Broadcasting: Conversation & Convergence Series: Iqualuit Gathering, April 12, 2017]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Jack Anawak
Claude Grenier
Salome Avva
Geneviève Bonin-Labelle
Anne Crawford
Madeleine D'Argencourt … [et al.]
Description
Includes links to program, summary, speeches, and audio of two panel discussions.
Part 1: Community Radio speech by Jack Anawak.
Part 2: Panel discussion: Regional Radio: Taqramiut Nipingat Inc.(TNI) and CBC North featuring Claude Grenier, Salome Avva and Patrick Nagle.
Part 3: Speech by George Hickes, Nunavut Minister responsible for Health and Suicide Prevention.
Part 4: Panel discussion: Inuit Broadcasting Corporation, CFRT-FM, and TV Nunavut featuring Fanny He, Madeleine d'Agencourt, and Charlotte DeWolff.
[The Future of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Broadcasting: Conversation & Convergence Series: Winnipeg Gathering, February 17, 2017]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Rosanna Deerchild
Kim Wheeler
Gary Farmer
Kathleen Buddle
Miles Morrisseau
Jim Compton
Lenard Monkman
Description
Includes links to program, summary, and audio of three panel discussions.
Panel 1:
Storytelling on National Ikwe Radio featuring Rosanna Deerchild and Kim Wheeler.
A History of Aboriginal Voices Radio featuring Gary Farmer and Kathleen Buddle.
On Nativebeat, Indian Country Today and More featuring Miles Morrisseau.
Panel 2:
Adam Beach Film Institute and Youth Engagement featuring Jim Compton.
At the Edge of Canada on UMFM featuring Robert-Falcon Ouellette.
In Black or White, or Through Marxist Glasses: The Image of the Indian in the Soviet Press and Scholarship
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrei A. Snamenski
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 16, no. 1, 1992, pp. 119-136
Description
Article discusses the influence of state ideology on social thought as it applies to the coverage of American Indian topics in the Soviet press and in Indian Studies.
Lakota Performers in Europe: Their Culture and the Artifacts They Left Behind
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William F. Cody Series on the History and Culture of the American West
E-Books
Author/Creator
Steve Friesen
Montreal Premiere of Birth of a Family: Q & A with Director Tasha Hubbard
Alternate Title
Q & A with Tasha Hubbard
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Tasha Hubbard
Description
Director of documentary about four siblings separated through adoption during the infamous "Sixties Scoop" answers questions from audience.
Duration: 23:06.
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Nine: Introduction and Directions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
Practicing Sovereignty: Colonial Temporalities, Cherokee Justice, and the "Socrates" Writings of John Ridge
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kelly Wisecup
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 2017, pp. 30-60
Description
"This article shows that Ridge's Socrates articles provided a public venue in which to define relationships among the Cherokees, the states, and the federal government".
Returning the People to the Circle: An Overview on Overcoming the Fracturing of American Indian Communities
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Western Social Science Association Meeting, San Francisco, April 12-15, 2017
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Stephen M. Sachs
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 28, no. 2, Fall 2017, p. [?]
Description
Provides suggestions for repairing fractured communities: reinstating traditional inclusiveness, help to heal tribal member from historical trauma and destructive behaviors, renew traditional knowledge, support tribal development and inclusive communication.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal People: Presentation by Charles Joseph Bernard, Jr.
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Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - Transcriptions of Public Hearings and Round Table Discussions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Charles Joseph Bernard
Description
File contains a presentation by Charles Joseph Bernard, Jr. of the Whycocomagh First Nation. Bernard was a sitting member of the Nova Scotia Working Committee on the Constitution. He discusses the relationship of his people with the Government of Canada including the Sylliboy case, residential schools, Treaties, the Donald Marshall case, his thoughts on the Royal Commission, some of the problems facing Aboriginal youth today, the justice system, racism, self-governance, culture, government funding, and other issues pertaining to Aboriginal people in Canada.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples 23: The Long House, Teslin, Yukon Territory
Documents & Presentations
Description
RCAP 23 contains files from the sitting of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples at The Long House, Teslin, Yukon. This sitting of the Commission contains presentations by on a variety of subjects such as land claims and self-government, Inuit health care, and the impact of residential schools. Each submission can be viewed individually on this site.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples 51: Delta Bessborough Hotel, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Documents & Presentations
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RCAP 51 contains files from the sitting of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples at the Delta Bessborough Hotel, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. This sitting of the Commission contains presentations relating to education, land claims, self-government, racism and discrimination, and Metis and women's issues. Each presentation can be viewed individually on this site.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Individual Presentation by Rodney Louie
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Rodney Louie
Description
File contains an individual presentation by Rodney Louie, who comes from the Lillooet, British Columbia area where a tribal police force is being formed. He sees policing of Aboriginal communities as being more productive and proactive when done by tribal police, rather than having the RCMP "reacting, then dealing with something after it has happened." Following the presentation is a discussion with Louie and past presenters Leonie Rivers, Robert Michel and Jill Harris and the Commissioners.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Opening Remarks and Presentation by Norman Evans, Commissioner for the Day On Behalf of the Pacific Metis Federation, and Commissioner Viola Robinson
Documents & Presentations
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File contains remarks and a presentation by Norman Evans, President, Pacific Metis Federation. Evans discusses Aboriginal history pre-contact and how the Metis became "Canada's forgotten people." He shares his frustration in dealing with the Canadian government and as a veteran of many Aboriginal organizations, he hopes this Royal Commission will fulfill its mandate to help make the lives of Aboriginals better. Following the presentation is a discussion with the Commissioners.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Algonquin College Aboriginal Students
Documents & Presentations
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File contains a presentation by Aboriginal Students from Algonquin College. The students voice a variety of concerns related to education, race relations, grass roots politics, cultural revival, the justice system, history curricula, drug and alcohol abuse, health service facilities, and assimilation. Following the presentation the assembled Commissioners discuss the students concerns with them.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Alicia Vance, Jody Sydney, Kathy Alfred, First Nations Management Program, Yukon College
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File contains a presentation by Alicia Vance, Jody Sydney, Kathy Alfred of the First Nations Management Program, Yukon College. Vance discusses improving leadership and unity in Aboriginal communities. Sydney discusses traditional culture and how the clan system is being used in Teslin, Yukon. Alfred discusses how education and programs can help solve social problems in Aboriginal communities. The assembled Commissioners discuss the ideas raised with the presenters.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Alma Brooks
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File contains a presentation by Alma Brooks, a Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) woman. Brooks relates her life journey and involvement with both politics and the community at large in helping to heal her people's problems. She states that self-governance is an impossibility until her people are healed. Following her presentation is a discussion between her and Commissioners Dussault and Sillet on healing and politics respectively.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Billy Day, Inuvialuit Communications Society
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Billy Day
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Vice-President of the organization discusses his organization's role providing information and entertainment to the Inuvialuit (Inuit) of the Western Arctic; the importance of media and communications; their newspaper and television operations; revitalizing the Inuit language and culture via media; the cultural effects of southern mass media on the Inuit; funding, equipment, and staffing concerns; and a recommendation to the Commission that Aboriginal peoples get the same resources and consideration for their broadcasters as French and English Canadians do.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Boyce Richardson, Author
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File contains a presentation by Boyce Richardson, Author. Richardson discusses his own work with and among Aboriginal people over the preceding forty years, and the views he has developed in the process. Richardson specifically discusses his experiences with the Algonquin people of Barrier Lake, Quebec, as well as across the country and makes a recommendation to the Commission that it tell Canadians that "these days are over.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Brian Cook, Individual Presentation
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File contains a presentation by Brian Cook. Cook discusses the need to incorporate Aboriginal history into school curriculums, the importance of having a land base, the Indian Act, the lack of an economic base for the reserve system, and problems with the justice system. Much of Cook's presentation deals with systemic racism. Following the presentation is a discussion between Cook and the Commissioners on the issues he has raised.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Catherine MacQuarrie
Documents & Presentations
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File contains a presentation by Catherine MacQuarrie. She is executive director of Native Communications in the western Northwest Territories, presents as an individual and discusses Native Communications and media issues. MacQuarrie also discusses self-governance, justice, languages, and related issues. Following the presentation the assembled Commissioners discuss some of the issues raised with MacQuarrie.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Cheryl Ogram and Cal Albright, City of Saskatoon Race Relations Committee
Documents & Presentations
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File contains a presentation by Cheryl Ogram and Cal Albright relating to the Aboriginal Relations Subcommittee, part of the Race Relations Committee. A number of recommendations are offered, including policies and programs affecting Aboriginal people be reviewed for systemic racism as well as cultural sensitivity and appropriateness, after consultation with Aboriginal people. Also recommended is all municipalities consulting with the Aboriginal community on any new policies that affect the community. Following the presentation is a question-and-answer session with the Commissioners.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Chief Darrell Boissoneau, Garden River First Nation
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Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - Transcriptions of Public Hearings and Round Table Discussions
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Darrell Boissonea
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File contains a presentation by Chief Darrell Boissoneau that focuses on treaty violations and particularly on the Indian Act. He calls on the Commission to help begin the healing and to ensure funding for the essential programs that are necessary to help Aboriginal people reclaim their culture. Following the presentation is a question-and-answer session with the Commissioners.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Chief James Henderson and Steve Fobister, Stanjikoming Reserve
Documents & Presentations
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File contains a presentation by Chief James Henderson and Steve Fobister relating to the negative effects of the Rainy Lake dam in Ontario, built between 1905 and 1909. Their First Nations fishing and hunting grounds were destroyed by flooding and they believe that proper compensation has never been given to their First Nations. The presenters also address the complete absence of telephone service on their First Nations, and call on the Commission to assist in negotiations with Bell Canada. Following the presentation is a brief question-and-answer session with the Commissioners.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Co-Chairman Georges Erasmus
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File contains a presentation by Commission Co-Chair Georges Erasmus during the first public meeting of said Commission. Erasmus spoke about how Chief Thunderchild viewed the need to hold on to Aboriginal land rights, and how this was still important in the nineteen-nineties.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Co-Chairman Rene Dussault
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File contains a presentation by Commission Co-Chair Rene Dussault during the first public meeting of said Commission. Dussault discusses the importance of discussion, and listening in the Commission process. “We know that many Aboriginal people are tired of being studied by others. They want to speak directly to us, and we want to hear from them. We want to hear their views of history and of what the future could or should hold for them. Similarly, we want to hear from the non-Aboriginal Canadians, who have not only a right, but an obligation to participate in this debate.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Eric Robinson, President, Aboriginal Council of Winnipeg
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File contains a presentation by Eric Robinson, President of the Aboriginal Council of Winnipeg. Robinson discusses his organizations purpose, and mainly focuses on the problems facing the urban Status and Treaty people in Winnipeg, and across Canada. He stresses the need for the Federal government to take action on behalf of Treaty people who live off reserve to alleviate poverty, discrimination, and lack of access to services. Following the presentation, Robinson introduces Mary Guilbeault's (also fo the Aboriginal Council of Winnipeg) presentation.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Evelyn Webster, Vice-President, Indigenous Women's Collective
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File contains a presentation by Evelyn Webster, Vice-President, Indigenous Women's Collective to the Commission. Webster provides a brief historical overview of her organization, and its mandate to address the social, economic, and political issues confronting Aboriginal women in Manitoba. Webster then goes on to discuss the traditional role of women in Aboriginal societies, and traditional Aboriginal values.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Fran Williams, Okalakatiget Society (Via Translator)
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This file contains a presentation by Fran Williams that begins with a brief history of the Native communication organization. Williams states that "Native broadcasting is essential for the preservation of our language and culture." She recommends that Inuktitut and other major Aboriginal languages should receive recognition in the Broadcast Act as official languages. Williams calls on the Commission to ensure funding continues for this important organization that actively works to keep the Inuktitut language from extinction.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Gary LaPlante, Kewatin Communications
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Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - Transcriptions of Public Hearings and Round Table Discussions
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Gary LaPlante
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File contains a presentation by Gary LaPlante, Kewatin Communications. LaPlante discusses self-governance and the critical view of it he has experienced from some Aboriginal people. LaPlante discusses his own life experiences and his view that race relations are a two way street and that some Aboriginal people harbour racist views and that this must be addressed.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Gary Standing, Post-Secondary Student, Wahpeton
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File contains a presentation by Garry Standing, a post-secondary student from the Wahpeton Dakota Nation. Standing describes himself as someone who has spent his entire life on reserve until the September before the Commission. The purpose of his presentation is to relay his "experiences from the last eight or nine months. Some of them have been positive and some of them have been negative." He discusses attending the University of Regina, but having to withdraw due to financing changes in Indian Affairs policy. He complains of paternalism and condescension in the approach of Indian Affairs.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Greta Gunner
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Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - Transcriptions of Public Hearings and Round Table Discussions
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Greta Gunner
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File contains a presentation by Greta Gunner. Gunner discusses her concerns about the treatment of Aboriginal women and the prejudices they face. Although originally scheduled to discuss her concerns on education, she felt "moved to talk and to speak on behalf of Native women and that the views that I express today are my own views, that I do not speak on behalf of the Native Women's group." She states that "as native women we not only suffer oppression by the white society, but we also [suffer] oppression by our own men" then goes on to discuss the barriers Aboriginal women face.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Irene Personius
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File contains a presentation by Irene Personius. Personius discusses issues related to education, and how the school system has impacted her own family. Following the presentation are some brief comments from Commissioner Blakeney, followed by Mr. Nathan McGillivary initiating closing prayers by a community elder, and the adjournment of the day's proceedings.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Janet Macdonald
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File contains a presentation by Janet Macdonald, a Micmac woman formerly involved with producing the Native Council newspaper in PEI. Macdonald relates the story of her papers demise due to funding cuts, and explains the importance of having independent Aboriginal media in her view. Following the presentation is a brief discussion with the Commissioners on these issues.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Jim Campbell, Resident, Saturna Island
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File contains a presentation by Jim Campbell, resident of Saturna Island, British Columbia. He states that despite the best intentions of government, "Many times in the past the individual has been disregarded" when laws are made. Campbell believes that "[F]reedom of the individual in a civil society...to realize his or her full potential is a worth object for all of us." He believes the Canadian government has obligations to Aboriginal peoples and until they are met, the potential of further conflict will remain.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Joe Blyan, Buffalo Lake Metis Settlement
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Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - Transcriptions of Public Hearings and Round Table Discussions
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Joe Blyan
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File contains a presentation by Joe Blyan stating that the Commission that all different status groups must meet and determine their courses of action. Blyan says a common vision is necessary when dealing with Aboriginal and Metis groups. Following the presentation are remarks by the Commissioners.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by John Elliot, Saanich Tribal School
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File contains a presentation by John Elliot, Saanich Tribal School. He reiterates what a previous speaker, Earl Claxton, said about the disappearance of the Saanich language. He hopes that the Commission recommends continuing funding of a two-year program that teaches the Saanich language and culture. Following the presentation is a discussion with the Commissioners.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by John Joe Sark, Captain of the Micmac Grand Council
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File contains a presentation by John Joe Sark, Captain of the Micmac Grand Council. Sark discusses the need to tell Aboriginal history, particularly the positive side, in schools in New Brunswick. He also discusses the Micmac's struggle to hold onto their culture through generations of assimilative pressures. Following Sark's presentation is a discussion with the Commissioners.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Lisa Raven, Hollow Water Band, Wanipigow School
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Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - Transcriptions of Public Hearings and Round Table Discussions
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Lisa Raven
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File contains a presentation by Lisa Raven, Hollow Water Band, Wanipigow School. Raven discusses her theory that the government has deliberately underfunded Status Indian education which she equates with an act of genocide. She also discusses the need for significant investments in education and economic development on reserves.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Louise Chippeway, Chairperson, Aboriginal Advisory Council
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File contains a presentation by the Aboriginal Advisory Council. Chairperson Louise Chippeway, Dan Highway, Elsie Moar, Bernice Hilts, Brian Ranville, and Clayton Sandy all contribute. The presenters are all civil servants with the provincial and federal governments and discuss affirmative action programs, overcoming racism, and Aboriginal participation in the labour force. Chairperson Chippeway and Ranville deliver most of the presentation. Following it the assembled Commissioners discuss some of the issues raised with the presenters.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Margaret McCullough, Yukon Human Rights Commission
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File contains a presentation by Margaret McCullough of the Yukon Human Rights Commission. McCullough discusses the Commissions activities and her witnessing of racism and discrimination in Yukon society. She also discusses some of the steps the Commission has taken to educate about racism. Following her presentation McCullough discusses racism and related issues with the assembled Commissioners.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Marilyn Fontaine, Spokesperson, Aboriginal Women's Unity Coalition
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File contains a presentation by Marilyn Fontaine, Spokesperson, Aboriginal Women's Unity Coalition. Fontaine discusses her organizations history, and the issues it deals with including sexism, violence, abuse, lack of political representation, self-government talks, and the environment.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Marlene Pierre and Bernadette Cook, Ontario Native Women's Association
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File contains a presentation by Marlene Pierre and Bernadette Cook focusing on Aboriginal women in politics and they must be included in the decision-making process. She describes the clan system of government and how the benefits of that system could be used in an "Aboriginal Charter," a form of self-government established by Aboriginal women on paper. Following the presentation is a question-and-answer session with the Commissioners.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Metro United Way, Betty Thomas, Jean Clayton
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File contains a presentation by Betty Thomas and Jean Clayton of the Metro United Way (Halifax). Thomas and Clayton discuss their organizational history and their Multicultralism/Anti-Racism Program. Following the presentation Commissioners Erasmus discusses the program with them.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Northwest Drug and Alcohol Abuse Centre, Donald Favel
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File contains a presentation made by Donald Favel, member of the Métis Addiction Council, for the Northwest Drug and Alcohol Abuse Centre on the topic of social development. Also contained are comments and questions from the assembled Commissioners and those of the Commissioner-of-the-Day.