Chilocco Indian Boarding School : Tool for Assimilation, Home for Indian Youth
Theses
Author/Creator
Pamela A. Koenig
Description
[History] Thesis (M.A.)--Oklahoma State University, 1992.
Theme of the Conference was "We Listen, They Speak" and featured speakers were Inuit, First Nations and Metis.
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.