Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Robert Williamson
Alternate Title
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - Transcriptions of Public Hearings and Round Table Discussions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Robert Williamson
Description
The file contains a presentation by Robert Williamson, a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Saskatchewan. Williamson discusses Inuit culture, history, displacement of people for tuberculosis treatment, and the High Arctic Relocation both as an event and as what he feels it signifies to Inuit leaders today. Following the presentation the assembled Commissioners discuss some of Williamson's ideas with him.