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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