Commissions & Inquiries

Executive Director of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation outlines historical background to the formation of the Commission; professor of law explains various aspects of the Settlement Agreement, the meaning of restorative justice and the need for establishing and maintaining a new relationship between Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals. Duration: 55:52.

Reports on various recent socio-political developments concerning the alarming number of missing Aboriginal women in Canada.

Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 2017.

Comments on the history of the removal policy regarding Aboriginal children in Australia.

Examines the use of apologies, and truth and reconciliation commissions in four countries with significant indigenous populations: Canada, Australia, Peru, and Guatemala.

Contributors discuss the machinery of colonization and resistance movements, and comment on the possibility of reconciliation.

Looks at vicarious trauma, intergenerational trauma and some of the causes.

Submission presents evidence of failure to provide equitable and culturally based welfare and education on reserves, and outlines the complaint currently before the Tribunal and the government's response, which is aimed at preserving the status quo.

Discusses the wide range of emotions Anglicans may feel due to the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions findings and reports regarding the churches association with residential schools.

Features stories of people participating in the sharing circle held at the Winnipeg event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Duration: 27:30.

Historical background and submission to the Indian Claims Commission (ICC) regarding what lands the Bands occupied around Missioner Creek and Williams Lake in 1861 and if Canada had an obligation to protect the settlement. ICC held that the village sites should have been set aside for the Band and that Canada should accept the claim. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Book review of: Winning Back The Words by Mary Richardson, Joan Sherman and Michael Gismondi.

Looks at how faculty at the University of British Columbia changed their curricula to address the mandate of the TRC and how social actions of testimony are thought of.

Argues that little has been done with respect to Aboriginal offenders other than accommodate them within the mainstream system and that traditional risk assessment is not valid when applied to Aboriginal women.

[History] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oklahoma, 1937.

Brief description of each commission, the date inaugurated and their mandate.

Justice David Wright's final report on the Neil Stonechild Inquiry indicates Stonechild's death could have been avoided.