Aboriginal Law Report for the week ending January 3, 2016 – First People’s Law
January 3, 2016
In the News
An Ottawa paper published excerpts of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
- Government, church, school officials well aware of failure to protect student health, safety: TRC report
- No single route or experience for Métis children into residential schools: TRC report
- Aboriginal policy to assimilate, civilize, Christianize, not applied in uniform manner: TRC report
- ‘I didn’t get to say goodbye to my dad or my brother Allan, didn’t get to pet my dogs or nothing,’ says Indian residential school survivor
- Reconciliation means establishing, maintaining mutually respectful relationship between aboriginal and non-aboriginal peoples: TRC final report
The painful legacy of Canada’s ’60s Scoop was in the news.
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