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Press Release / Dave Courchene, President / Manitoba Indian Brotherhood / Winnipeg, Manitoba. - 26 June 1969.

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Dave Courchene
This press release expresses the Manitoba Aboriginal organization's "bitterness, frustration and anger" with the Federal Government's "White Paper." Courchene calls for meetings with Aboriginal leaders in Manitoba to present alternatives from the "cultural genocide" he believes will occur if the "White Paper" becomes law.

Historical note:

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Project Naming

Web Sites » Governmental
Author/Creator
Libary and Archives Canada
Project seeks help to identify the Inuit people whose photographs were taken by various photographers from the late 1800s to 1950. Includes canned photos, some explanatory audio and video material. Users are invited to submit names of individuals recognized.
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Questions of Privacy and Confidentiality after Atrocity: Collecting and Retaining Records of the Residential School System in Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tricia Logan
Genocide Studies International, vol. 12, no. 1, Spring, 2018, pp. [92]-102
Looks at the challenges accessing Canadian residential school records and how the decision to destroy certain survivor accounts regarding abuse in residential schools is a threat to the memory of cultural genocide in Canada.
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[Record Group 10: Documents Relating to Residential and Day Schools]

Alternate Title
[699 Day Schools]
[RG10: Documents Relating to Residential and Day Schools]
[Federal Indian Day Schools in Canada]
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Government of Canada, Department of Indian Affairs

Digitized versions of originals (1879-1949) mainly relating to day-to-day running of individual schools across Canada such as building maintenance, general administration, teachers' salaries and residences, and supplies. In some cases admissions and discharges (residential schools), death of pupils (residential schools), applications to teach, inspectors' reports, drugs and medical supplies for treatment of students, and vocational training supplies are also mentioned. Some headquarters files are included. Also included is link to indexes to the Indian Affairs School Files.

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Report of the Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs - 1874

Documents & Presentations
Report for the year ending 30 June 1874; including "condition of the various tribal accounts...the quality of land sold during the year and...the state of various schools established for the benefit of the Indians, and another detailing...the population of each Indian band or tribe...a schedule descriptive of the position and area of the Indian reserves in the several Provinces, is appended to this report."
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Report on Indian Affairs

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Joseph Howe
Report written by Joseph Howe, primarily concerning the Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia. Statistics provided document the decrease in the Indigenous population; information regarding plans for reserves; education; etc.
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RG10 and RG15 Materials in the University of Saskatchewan Libraries

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
University of Saskatchewan. Government Publications
Briefly explains the nature of federal collections making up Record Group10 and 15, provides quick links to the National Library Archivia CD-ROM, and provides a list of RG10 and RG 15 microfilm held by the First Nations University in Saskatoon. Copies of many of the itemized in the list are also held by the University of Saskatchewan Murray (Main) Library.
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