Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Northern Nishnawbe Education Council

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Database ID30503
InstitutionUniversity of Saskatchewan Archives
Fonds/CollectionNative Law Centre fonds
File/Item ReferenceReference Library, RCAP vol. 84 (Box 13)
Date of creationDecember 1, 1992
Physical description/extent36 pgs
Number of images37
Scope and contentFile contains a presentation by Bill Nothing and Isaac Beaulieu of the Northern Nishnawbe Education Council. Nothing, Executive Director of the Council, discusses his work with the people of the Nishnawbe-Aski area for the past twenty years. It expresses his personal views as well as those of the Education Council. Topics addressed include self-government negotiations, Aboriginal and Treaty rights, the Memorandum on Understanding between First Nations and the Ontario and Canadian governments, land and education issues, education funding, health and education, eyesight problems, and a series of policy reccomendations related to these concerns for the Commission. Isaac Beaulieu presents on educational concerns related to the development of Aboriginal language curriculums, the Ojibway-Cree culture, and self-governance, Beaulieu makes a variety of recommendations to this effect. Following the presentations the assembled Commissioners discuss some of the issues raised with the two presenters.
Other terms governing use and reproductionRoyal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - Transcriptions of Public Hearings and Round Table Discussions, 1992-1993. Reproduced with the permission of the Minister of Public Works and Government Services, and Courtesy of the Privy Council Office, 2008.
TypePublished
Primary MediaTextual documents
Provenance Access PointUniversity of Saskatchewan. Native Law Centre
Other notesVolume 1, Nishnawbe-Gamik Friendship Centre, Sioux Lookout, Ontario, Tuesday, December 1, 1992. pgs 96-132.
PlaceSioux Lookout, Ontario, Canada
Treaty boundariesNo treaty
Canada -- National
Cultural regionSubarctic
Canada -- National
NamesBeardy, Stan
Beaulieu, Isaac
Chartrand, Paul, 1943-
Fox, Charles
Northern Nishnawbe Education Council
Nothing, Bill
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
Wilson, Bertha, 1923-2007 (Justice)
SubjectGovernment commissions -- Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
Self-government
Education -- Policy
Community Life
Community Development
Community Histories
Culture -- Language
Education -- Traditional
Education -- Western
Education
Oji-Cree
Ojibwa (Anishnabe)
Cree
Date Range(s)1990-1999
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