Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Grand Chief Joseph T. Norton, John "Bud" Morris, Chief Billy Two Rivers, Arnold Goodleaf and Phil Schneider, Mohawk Council of Kahnawake

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Database ID31151
InstitutionUniversity of Saskatchewan Archives
Fonds/CollectionNative Law Centre fonds
File/Item ReferenceReference Library, RCAP vol. 113 (Box 18)
Date of creationMay 6, 1993
Physical description/extent96 pages of textual records
Number of images96
Scope and contentThis file contains a presentation by five members of the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake. Subjects discussed by the presenters include arrests of Kahnawake residents in 1988 relating to cigarettes; the Oka Crisis of 1990; negotiations relating to self-government; the removal of the Indian Act; transfer payments to Aboriginal persons; education and housing issues, and the Kahnawake Peacekeepers (police force). A question-and-answer session with the Commissioners follows the presentation.
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 notesPart of Volume 2, Kahnawake, Quebec; Thursday, May 6, 1993. Pages 502-597.
PlaceMontreal, Quebec, Canada
Treaty boundariesUpper Canada
Cultural regionNortheast
NamesChartrand, Paul, 1943-
Dussault, Rene, 1939-
Erasmus, Georges Henry, 1948- (Chief)
Goodleaf, Arnold
Haudenosaunee People
Iroquois Confederacy
Levesque, Rene
Morris, John 'Bud'
Norton, Joseph T.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
Schneider, Phil
Sillett, Mary
Two Rivers, Billy
SubjectGovernment commissions -- Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
Indigenous Peoples General
Indigenous Peoples Organizations
Indigenous Relations
Law and Legislation -- Acts -- Indian Act
Law and Legislation -- Acts -- Charter of Rights
Community Policing
Self-government
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Jay Treaty
Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy) - Mohawk
Oka Crisis
Date Range(s)1990-1999
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