ANTH 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Canadian Indian Residential School System, Tom Longboat Awards, Kenora District
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There are many significant situations, movements, or events that are occurring across canada that have important implications or impacts on the first nations of. These fall into many categories, such as land claims, resource and eco- nomic development issues, the indian status problem, and the reconciliation process involving residential schools. Canada-wide movements and events: the royal commission on aboriginal peoples. The concept of aboriginal rights in canada was explored extensively in the report of the royal commission on aboriginal peoples (rcap), which was released on. Altogether, the commission published four special reports, concerning land claims, justice, suicide, and relocation of the inuit, along with two commentaries on self-government. Reputed to be the most expensive federal inquiry in canadian history, costing nearly million, the report of the commission comprised five volumes and heard over 3,500 witnesses. Rcap put forward more than 400 recommendations, such as the suggestion that.
