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[The Churches Speak about Residential Schools]
The Class Action as a Remedy for Abuse Experienced in Residential Schools: Institutional Abuse & Public Response: A NWAC Discussion Paper
"If We Get the Girls, We Get the Race": Missionary Education of Native American Girls
Old Wounds, New Beginnings: Challenging the Missionary Paradigm in Native-White Relations; A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Sexual Abuse Service Development in a Yukon Community
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples 143 Open Forum: Presentation by Art Solomon
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples 149: Opening Prayer and Opening Remarks by Darlene Kelly
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples 23: The Long House, Teslin, Yukon Territory
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples 67: Luke Novoligak Hall, Cambridge Bay, Northwest Territories
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Discussion between Commissioners and Elders Dominic Eshkakogan, Mary Lou Fox, Rita Corbiere
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: General Discussion on Women's Issues, Closing Prayer
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Individual Presentation by Richard Greene
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Board of Education, by Vincentte Cook
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Chief Agnes Snow, Canoe Creek Indian Band
Presentation focusing on residential schools and government policy. Snow states that because the federal government wanted to assimilate Aboriginal peoples, they have lost their languages, traditions and values. Family violence, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, unemployment and poor physical and mental health are problematic on her First Nation, and she calls on the Commission to ensure that her First Nation continues to receive government funding to combat these social problems. A question-and-answer session with the Commissioners follows the presentation.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Chief Gordon Peters, Chiefs of Ontario
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Chief Peter Quaw, Lheit-Lit'en Nation
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Dominic Eshkakogan
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Evelyn Ballantyne, Committee Member on Bill C-31 and Edith Young, Swampy Cree Tribal Council
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Gail Watson, Jerry McNeil, and Ron Zong, Manitoba Association of School Trustees
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Gary Patsey, Gitanmaax Band
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Joe Michel, Keewatin Tribal Council
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Marvin Sampson, Chief Councillor, Glen Vowell Band
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.