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aakwaadiziwin (courage)
Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (now Department of Indigenous and Northern Affairs): “A New Direction: Advancing Aboriginal and Treaty Rights”
commemoration projects
Aboriginal-Crown relations
Aboriginal Healing Foundation: closure
creative arts practices effectiveness
cuts to funding
Speaking My Truth: Reflections on Reconciliation and Residential Schools
“We were so far away”
Where Are the Children?
Aboriginal law
Aboriginal nations
Aboriginal peoples: apologies from Canada
Canadian law
development impact
law as tool of oppression
oral history equivalent to written
portrayal in textbooks
rights recognized by British Crown
ties to the land
women’s traditional roles
Aboriginal Peoples’ Participation in Sports Policy
Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN)
Aboriginal Rights Coalition
Aboriginal Youth Council
Accessing Justice and Reconciliation Project (AJR)
“Access to Justice in the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples” (UN)
Adema, Rev. Bruce
Adese, Jennifer (Métis scholar)
agreements: Gwich’in Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement (1992)
land claim agreements in the North
land claims, numbers of
Tlicho Agreement (2005)
AJR (Accessing Justice and Reconciliation). See Accessing Justice and Reconciliation Project (AJR)
Alberni residential school, BC. See Port Alberni, BC, Alberni residential school (Presbyterian/United)
Alberta, vital statistics offices
Alberta National Event: comments
experiences
expression of reconciliation
gifts into the Bentwood Box
panel on “Recollection and Collective Memory”
Alexie, Robert: Porcupines and China Dolls
Alfred, Taiaiake (Mohawk scholar)
Aller, Robert (artist, teacher)
All Native Circle Conference
Amnesty International: joint statement on the Doctrine of Discovery
Anamiewigumming Kenora Fellowship Centre
Anaya, S. James (UN)
Anderson, Captain Thomas G. (Crown)
Anderson, Kim (historian)
Anderson, Mark (historian)
Anglican Church: “A New Agape”
Commission on Discovery, Reconciliation, and Justice
Doctrine of Discovery
aniaslutik (express each side of the story)
Anishinaabe peoples
Anishinabek Nation
apologies
action required after
Anishinaabe peoples
churches to residential school students
in the Condolence ceremony
“Day of the Apology”
failure of
federal government to Aboriginal peoples
Hul’q’umi’num Elders teach
measured by Indigenous criteria
Mi’kmaq peoples
need/importance
none by Pope
official, definition
other countries
Phil Fontaine to Catholic Church
reconciliation process
requirements for genuine
University of Manitoba to Survivors
Arcand, Eugene (Survivor)
Archives of Manitoba
archives (LAC) role in reconciliation
art: education with
exhibits with National Events
healing with
public versus private
ArtsLink Project
asemaa (tobacco)
Aseniwuche Winewak Nation
Assembly of First Nations (AFN): commemoration project
joint statement on the Doctrine of Discovery
“Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples at 10 Years”
assimilation: apology/acknowledgement from churches for contribution to
current issue
as genocide
as government policy
history of
Métis Nation
spiritual violence
stories of impact
Atlantic National Event
Atleo, Chief Shawn A-in-chut (Assembly of First Nations)
Augustine, Elder Stephen (Mi’kmaq)
Australia, apology to Indigenous peoples
Backhouse, Constance
bah’lats (potlatch)
Barkwell, Lawrence J. (scholar)
Barnard, David T. (U. of M.)
Battiste, Marie (educator)
Bear, Ava (Intergenerational Survivor)
Beaver (Dèshitàn)
Belcourt, Christi (Métis artist): Giniigaaniimenaaning (Looking Ahead)
Belleau, Charlene (Survivor, AFN)
Bellegarde, National Chief Perry (AFN)
Benedict XVI, Pope
Benjamin, Akua
Bentwood Box
Berger, Justice Thomas
Bigetty, Ovide (Cree artist)
Bighorn, Deloria (Survivor, Bahá’í)
Blackbird, Jennie
Black Elk (Plains)
Blesse, Emerald (Little River Cree Nation)
Blondin, Alice: My Heart Shook Like a Drum
Bob, Geraldine
Bolduc, Jessica (Indigenous youth)
Bolen, Bishop Don
Boler, Megan (education scholar)
Booth, James A.
Borrows, John (Anishinaabe, scholar)
Boullard, Therese
Brantford, Ont., Mohawk Institute residential school (Anglican)
British Columbia: Delgamuukw v. British Columbia
energy infrastructure
Haida Nation v. British Columbia (Minister of Forests) (2004)
vital statistics offices. See also British Columbia National Event
British Columbia National Event: art exhibits
comments
dialogue panel: “Honouring Women’s Wisdom”
Education Day
expressions of reconciliation
Youth Dialogue Forum
Broadcasting Act (1991)
Brockwood, Evelyn (Survivor)
Broken Circle: The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools: A Memoir (Fontaine)
Brown, Marlisa and Molly Tilden: Our Truth: The Youth Perspective on Residential Schools
business development. See corporate sector and reconciliation
Byers, Jacqulyn
Calfchild, Davyn
Campbell, Chief Ian (Squamish Nation)
Canada, history of colonization
Canadian Association of Journalists
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC/Radio-Canada)
Canadian Catholic Aboriginal Council
Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops
Canadian Council of Churches
Canadian Museum for Human Rights. See also Bentwood Box
Canadian Museum of Civilization. See Canadian Museum of History
Canadian Museum of History
Canadian Roots Exchange
Cardinal, Charles (student)
Carriere Acco, Anne (Métis Elder)
Cavanaugh, Brother Tom (church official)
Cayuga Nation
cedar capes
cemeteries
United Church educational program
Centre for Global Citizenship Education and Research in Edmonton
Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources
Centre for Youth and Society at the University of Victoria: “Residential Schools Resistance Narratives”
ceremonies: importance of
at National Events
women’s, importance
The Charrette on Energy, Environment and Aboriginal Issues: “Responsible Energy Resource Development in Canada”
Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Chartier, Clement (Métis)
Chesterfield Inlet, NWT (now Nvt.), Chesterfield Inlet residential school, Turquetil Hall (Catholic)
Chief Coroners and Medical Examiners of Canada
Chiefs of Ontario: joint statement on the Doctrine of Discovery
child apprehension
children’s art (Alberni Residential School)
Chinese Exclusion Act
Chinese head tax
Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation No.
Chow, Mike
Christie residential school, BC. See Meares Island/Christie/Tofino, BC, Christie/Clayoquot/Kakawis school (Catholic)
churches: apologies
Catholic statement of regret
covenant making
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
forced Christianity on students
Indigenous spirituality, reports
instilled fear in students
listening areas at National Events
Mi’kmaq alliance
A New Covenant
Oblates of Mary Immaculate
reconciliation struggles
Survivors response to apologies
Churches’ Council on Theological Education in Canada
civic trust
claims against federal government: archival records used
day school students
Truth and Reconciliation Commission
victims of Sixties Scoop
Clark, Right Honourable Joe (Honorary Witness, former prime minister)
Coast Salish peoples
Coates, Kenneth (Canada Research Chair)
Colour of Poverty, Colour of Change
commemoration projects
community-based healing projects
Community Hearings: Key First Nation, Sask
Maskwacis (formerly Hobbema), Alta.
St. Paul, Alta.
Thunder Bay, Ont.
comparison between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples: CBC workforce
well-being gap
Condolence ceremony
“Conducting Research on Residential Schools” (LAC)
Confederacy under the Great Law of Peace
Congregation Beth Israel, Vancouver, BC
consensus democracy
Constitution Act, 1867
Constitution Act, 1982
Cooper-Bolam, Trina (researcher)
Corntassel, Jeff
corporate sector and reconciliation
Council Fire Native Cultural Centre
Council of Ministers of Education, Canada
Courchene, Dave (Elder)
covenant of reconciliation
Cree peoples: circle for reconciliation
City of Wetaskiwin
legal traditions
Sunnybrook United Church
Crerar, Angie (Survivor)
Crown-First Nations meetings
Crowshoe, Reg (Elder)
cultural genocide. See genocide
Cumberland House, Sask.
Cunningham, Peter (BC gov.)
Curve Lake First Nation (Ont.)
Dakhl’awèdí (Eagle)
Daniels, Kevin (National Chief)
Dauphin, Man., McKay residential school (Anglican)
“Day of the Apology”
day school students
dbaadendiziwin (humility)
debwewin (truth)
“Declaration of Action” (charities, foundations)
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UN). See United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
de Greiff, Pablo (UN Special Rapporteur)
Deleary, Mary (Elder)
Delgamuukw v. British Columbia
Dene peoples
Denny, Andrew (Kji Keptin, Grand Captain, Mi’kmaq)
Dèshitàn (Beaver)
DeWolf, Mark
DeWolf, Reverend James Edward
dispute resolution, non-adversarial
Dixon, Alvin
Doctrine of Discovery
and Chief Justice Marshall’s ruling on
necessary to learn for history of Canada
and present-day land claims
documentation: difficulty in obtaining
importance of
oral history same as written
privacy issues
residential school cemeteries
United Church online
Dumont, Alf (United Church)
Dumont, Jim (Elder)
Durocher, Elaine
“The Duty to Learn: Taking Account of Indigenous Legal Orders in Practice” (Finch)
Eagle (Dakhl’awèdí)
earth, ties to/relationship with. See also under traditional practices
Eashappie, Desarae
economic reconciliation
Edmonton (St. Albert), Alta., Edmonton residential school (now Poundmaker Lodge), (Methodist/United Church)
Education Day Youth Dialogue
education system: failure of
history of residential schools
lack of knowledge of history of Aboriginal peoples
museum role
progress made
recommendations
and reconciliation
The Residential School System in Canada (NWT and Nvt.)
transformation of
United Church program on cemeteries and unmarked burials
Eeyou Istchee (Grand Council of the Crees): joint statement on the Doctrine of Discovery
Elders Advisory Council
Elliot, Daniel (descendant of Survivors)
Elliot, Mayor Bill (Honorary Witness)
emotions
environmental damage
Epp, Professor Roger
Erasmus, George (RCAP)
Ermineskin residential school, Alta. See Hobbema, Alta., Ermineskin residential school (Catholic)
Etherington, Patrick (Survivor)
Ethics and Religious Cultures Program (Que.)
Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UN)
Eyford, Douglas R.: “A New Direction: Advancing Aboriginal and Treaty Rights”
“Forging Partnerships, Building Relationships”
Fausak, Rev. Cecile
feasts: commemoration
welcome home and apology, Gitxsan Survivors. See also under traditional practices
Feathers of Hope
federal government: Auditor General report on LAC
Discover Canada
documentation, difficulty in obtaining from
duty to protect Indigenous rights
“Gathering Strength: Canada’s Aboriginal Action Plan” (1998)
Justice Department, conflicting roles
land claims policy
law as obstacle to reconciliation
Library and Archives Canada (LAC)
museums
RCAP recommendations
response to the RCAP report
response to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Supreme Court of Canada. See also claims against federal government; Library and Archives Canada
films
Finch, Chief Justice Lance: “The Duty to Learn: Taking Account of Indigenous Legal Orders in Practice”
Finding My Talk: How Fourteen Native Women Reclaimed Their Lives after Residential School (Grant)
First Nations Treaty 6 and 7
First Peoples House
Fisher, Martina (Survivor)
Fisher, Rev. Claire Eware
Foley, Dennis
Fontaine, Bert (Sagkeeng First Nation)
Fontaine, Lorena
Fontaine, Phil (former Grand Chief, Survivor)
Fontaine, Theodore (Ted) (Survivor)
Broken Circle: The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools: A Memoir
forest diplomacy
Fort Albany, Ont., St. Anne’s residential school (Catholic)
Fort Alexander residential school, Man. See Pine Falls, Man., Fort Alexander residential school (Catholic)
Fort Normandeau, Alta.
Four Season Cultural Camps of the Serpent River First Nation
“free, prior and informed consent” (FPIC)
Friedland, Hadley
Frog (Ishkìtàn)
FrontRunners (documentary)
Gamblin, Edward (student)
Garneau, David
gender issues
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Canada: “Aboriginal Spirituality”
genocide: CMHR use of term
cultural
definition (UN)
George, Chief Lewis (Survivor)
George, Deb. See Sulsa’meeth (Elder)
George, Dudley (First Nations)
George, Patsy (Honorary Witness)
George, Ron. See Tousilum (Elder, Survivor)
George III, King
Ghostkeeper, Elmer (Métis Elder)
Giacomin, Ginelle
Gillespie, Emily (scholar)
Giniigaaniimenaaning (Looking Ahead) (Belcourt)
Gitxsan people
Goudge, Justice Stephen
Governing Circle
Grand Council of the Crees (Eeyou Istchee): joint statement on the Doctrine of Discovery
Grand Council of Treaty 3
Grandfather and Grandmother Teachings
Grant, Agnes: Finding My Talk: How Fourteen Native Women Reclaimed Their Lives after Residential School
Grant-Boucher, Victoria (Survivor)
graves, indentification
Gray, Ian (Aboriginal Affairs)
Great Law of Peace (Haudenosaunee Confederacy)
Green, Joyce (scholar)
Green, Richard
Greiff, Pablo de. See de Greiff, Pablo (UN Special Rapporteur)
Greyeyes, Carol (Survivor)
Grey Nuns
Grier-Stewart, Hayley (First Nations youth)
Guichon, Chief Percy (Tslihqot’in Nation)
Gus-Wen-Tah
gwekwaadiziwin (honesty)
Gwich’in Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement (1992)
Hague, Cliff
Haida Nation v. British Columbia (Minister of Forests) (2004)
Halifax, N.S.
Harper, Right Honourable Stephen (former prime minister)
Harvey, Kim (Tsilhqot’in intergenerational Survivor)
Hatahts’ikrehtha’ (Jacob Thomas, Cayuga Chief)
Haudenosaunee Confederacy (Great Law of Peace)
Haudenosaunee peoples
Healing Quilt Project
Hesquiaht village
Highway, Tomson: Kiss of the Fur Queen
Hiltz, Archbishop Fred (church official)
Historical Thinking Project
Historic Sites and Monuments Act (federal)
Hobbema, Alta., Ermineskin residential school (Catholic)
Holder, Cindy
Holocaust
Honorary Witnesses: about, and comments by
Right Honourable Joe Clark
Mayor Bill Elliot
Patsy George
Tina Keeper
Wab Kinew
Right Honourable Paul Martin
Honourable Steven Point
Mayor Gregor Robertson
Shelagh Rogers
Andy Scott
Sylvia Smith
Dr. Andrea Walsh
Honour Walkers
Houle, Robert (Anishinaabe artist)
Hul’q’umi’num peoples
human rights violations
ICTJ. See International Center for Transitional Justice
Idle No More
Indian Act
Indian Affairs: art teacher, Alberni school. See also Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (now Department of Indigenous and Northern Affairs); federal government
Indian Horse (Wagamese)
Indian Residential Schools, list of residential schools and residences included and not included in the Settlement Agreement (IRSSA). See TRC Report Vol. 4, Missing Children and Unmarked Burials, Appendix 1
Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA): churches made archives available
creation of Truth and Reconciliation Commission
funding for commemoration projects
Métis Survivors excluded
Schedule N
Indigenous Bar Association
Indigenous law
Aboriginal law
balance as central concept
initiation of use
modern usage
present-day applications
Indigenous Law Clinic
Indigenous legal traditions
Indigenous spiritual practices: banned by law
children taught to reject
church reports on
essential to healing
Infeld, Rabbi Jonathan
Inspirit Foundation
intergenerational impact
intergenerational Survivors. See individual names
International Center for Transitional Justice’s (ICTJ): Children and Youth Program
“Strengthening Indigenous Rights through Truth Commisssions: A Practitioner’s Resource”
internment camps for Japanese in Canada
Inuit peoples
Mackenzie Valley pipeline
Nunavut Family Abuse Intervention Act
oral traditions
showing emotion, embarrassment
Inuvialuit Final Agreement (1984)
Ipperwash Provincial Park
Iroquois Confederacy. See Haudenosaunee peoples
Ishkìtàn (Frog)
Iveson, Don (Edmonton mayor)
James, Matt
Japanese internment camps in Canada
Jenner, Vitaline Elsie (Survivor/child of Survivors)
Jinkerson-Brass, Sharon
John, Grand Chief Edward (Tl’azt’en Nation, BC)
Johnson, Sir W.
Johnston, David (governor general)
Joinet-Orentlicher Principles (UN)
Jordao, Antonio
Joseph, Chief Dr. Robert (Gwawaenuk Elder, Survivor)
journalistic principles
Journalists for Human Rights
Kaefer, Florence (teacher)
KAIROS
Kakfwi, Stephen (Survivor, premier NWT)
Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk) people
Kazimi, Ali
Keeper, Tina (Honorary Witness, Norway House Cree Nation)
Keesick, Robert
Keewatin-Richards, Lyle
Kelly, Fred (Elder, Survivor)
Kelly-Davis, Lucille (Survivor)
Kenny, Ms.
Kenora, Ont., St. Mary’s (formerly St. Anthony’s) residential school (Catholic)
Kinew, Tobasonakwut (Elder)
Kinew, Wab (Honorary Witness)
Kiss of the Fur Queen (Highway)
Knockwood, Isabelle and Gillian Thomas: Out of the Depths: The Experiences of Mi’kmaw Children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia
Knowledge Keepers
Knowledge Keepers Forum
Koebel, Jaime (Métis)
Kùkhhittàn (Raven)
Kuper Island Residential School, B.C. (Catholic)
Kuper Island: Return to the Healing Circle (documentary)
LAC. See Library and Archives Canada (LAC)
Lachinette-Diabo, Esther
Lachlan, Shelby (Métis youth)
Lacorne, Maxine
Ladisch, Virginie (ICTJ director)
Lakehead University
land claims: Doctrine of Discovery
federal government denial of
Gwich’in Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement (1992)
The Pines/Oka golf course
Sahtu Dene and Métis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement (1994)
settled
land rights
Language Immersion Canoe Course, Tofino, BC
LaRocque, Emma (scholar)
La Tuque residential school, Que. (Anglican)
Law Society of Upper Canada
Lee, Jack
Lee, Kevin Takahide
Legacy Art Gallery: To Reunite, To Honour, To Witness
Legacy of Hope Foundation
“The Legacy of the Residential School System in Canada” (LAC)
legal traditions. See Indigenous legal traditions
Library and Archives Canada (LAC)
Auditor General report
Collection Framework Development
“Conducting Research on Residential Schools”
human rights and justice
“Native Residential Schools in Canada: A Selective Bibliography”
photographs of residential schools brought to National Events
records used as evidence in claims
“The Legacy of the Residential School System in Canada”
“We were so far away”: The Inuit Experience of Residential Schools
Where Are the Children? Healing the Legacy of the Residential Schools
Lightning, Albert (student)
Lightning, David (student)
Lightning, Georgina (Survivor): Older Than America
Lightning, Richard (child of student)
Lil’wat traditional territory
litigation versus good faith negotiations
Little, Archie (Survivor)
Little River Cree Nation
Littletent, Kirby (Elder)
Liu, Hanshi
Living Healing Quilt Project
Loring, Kevin: Where the Blood Mixes
Lussier, Ms (Métis person)
Lyons, Oren (Haudenosaunee Faith Keeper)
Mac. See also Mc
MacKenzie, Rev. John A. (Ian)
Mackenzie Valley pipeline project
Malloway, Frank (Hereditary Chief)
manâtisiwin (respect)
Manitoba: Office of the Chief Coroner
public education on treaties
Manitoba Métis Federation v. Canada (Attorney General) (2013)
Manitoba Museum
Manitoba National Event: comments
experiences, stories
panel on “We Are All Treaty People”
quilt
Marrus, Michael (historian)
Marshall, Chief Justice John
Marston, Luke (Coast Salish artist)
Marten, Charlotte
Martin, Right Honourable Paul (Honorary Witness, former prime minister)
McCue, Duncan (journalist)
McCue, June (legal scholar)
McDonald, Laurie
McDonald, Reverend Mark
McHugh, Ron (intergenerational Survivor)
McKay, Rev. Stan (Survivor, United Church)
McKay residential school, Man. See Dauphin, Man., McKay residential school (Anglican)
Meares Island/Christie/Tofino, BC, Christie/Clayoquot/Kakawis school (Catholic): Cavanaugh, Brother Tom (supervisor)
Seitcher, Ina (student)
media and reconciliation
Meneses, Matthew
Mennonite Central Committee Saskatchewan
Metatawabin, Edmund and Alexandra Shimo: Up Ghost River: A Chief’s Journey through the Turbulent Waters of Native History
Methodist Church
Métis National Council
Métis Nation Residential School Dialogue
Métis peoples
Metro Toronto Chinese and South-East Asian Legal Clinic
Mi’kmaq Legal Services Network, Eskasoni
Mi’kmaq peoples
Mikomosis and the Wetiko (Napoleon)
Miller, J. R. (historian)
mino-bimaadiziwin (good living)
Minow, Martha (legal scholar)
missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls
missing children and unmarked burials
Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate
Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation
miyo-ohpikinâwasowin (good childrearing)
mnaadendiwin (respect)
Mohawk Institute. See Brantford, Ont., Mohawk Institute residential school (Anglican)
Mohawk peoples
Morris, Cassidy
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery: Witnesses: Art and Canada’s Indian Residential Schools
Morrisseau, John (Survivor)
Moses, Agnes (Survivor)
Moses, John (child of student)
Muffins for Granny (documentary)
Mullin, Margaret (Thundering Eagle Woman, Presbyterian)
Mulroney, Right Honourable Brian (former prime minister)
Murray, Stuart
museums: Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Canadian Museum of History
recommendations from RCAP
role as part of education for reconciliation
Musqua, Danny (Saulteaux Elder)
Musqueam Nation
My Heart Shook Like a Drum (Blondin)
Naabaagoondiwin ceremony
Nagy, Rosemary (scholar)
Napoleon, Val (legal scholar)
Mikomosis and the Wetiko
national archives. See Library and Archives Canada (LAC)
National Association of Friendship Centres
National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR)
National Events: art exhibits
Education Days and Youth Dialogues
Final Event, Ottawa
journalists at
learning places
photographs of residential schools brought by LAC
research on non-Indigenous witnesses. See also Truth and Reconciliation Commission; individual National Events
National Indian Brotherhood. See Assembly of First Nations (AFN)
National Program of Historical Commemoration
National Research Centre in Vancouver
National Residential School Student Death Register
“Native Residential Schools in Canada: A Selective Bibliography” (LAC)
Ned’u’ten people (Lake Babine First Nation in British Columbia)
netukulimk (community action across generations)
A New Covenant: Towards the Constitutional Recognition and Protection of Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada (Christian Churches)
“A New Direction: Advancing Aboriginal and Treaty Rights” (Eyeford)
Newman, Dwight (Canada Research Chair)
New Zealand, apology to Indigenous peoples
Ng, Winnie
Nibinamik First Nation
nibwaakaawin (wisdom)
Nicholas, Iris (Survivor)
Nisley, Merle (residential school worker)
“Nitâpwewininân: Ongoing Effects of Residential Schools on Aboriginal Women” (Prairie Women’s Health Centre)
North American Indigenous Games
Northern National Event, Inuvik, NWT: comments
Our Truth: The Youth Perspective on Residential Schools
Northern Secwepemc
Northwest Territories: curriculum
land claim agreements
Mackenzie Valley pipeline
Office of the Chief Coroner
Northwest Territories Human Rights Commission
Norway House, Man., Norway House United Church residential school (Methodist/United Church)
Nova Scotia: Office of the Chief Coroner
vital statistics offices
Nunavut Territory
Nunavut Family Abuse Intervention Act
vital statistics offices
Nuu-chah-nulth territory
Oblates of Mary Immaculate
ohcinêwin (breaking laws against anything other than a human)
“Oka Crisis,” Québec
Older Than America (Lightning)
Olympics, Vancouver Winter
Oneida Nation
O’Neill, Mark
Onondaga Nation
Ontario: Community Hearing, Thunder Bay
Office of the Chief Coroner
public education on treaties
vital statistics offices
Ontario Human Rights Commission
Ontario Provincial Police
oral history: carrying memories
commemoration projects
creating new records
equal weight of
as healing
importance of
learning from
National Centre to house
record of apology to Gitxsan Survivors. See also stories; storytelling
Orcata (Anishinaabe)
Our Legacy, Our Hope (video, ICTJ)
Our Truth: The Youth Perspective on Residential Schools (Tilden and Brown)
“Outcome Document” (UN)
Out of the Depths: The Experiences of Mi’kmaw Children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia (Knockwood and Thomas)
Pacific Association of First Nations Women
Pacific National Exhibition
Pan-Am Games, 1967
Pan-Parapan American Games
pâstâhowin (breaking laws against humans)
peacekeeping. See under traditional practices
Peacemaker Court (YT)
Peacemaker Court and Justice Council Act (YT)
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UN)
“A Study on the Impacts of the Doctrine of Discovery on Indigenous Peoples, Including Mechanisms, Processes, and Instruments of Redress”
Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See
Phillips, Lynne (public school teacher)
photographs in Library and Archives Canada
Physical Activity and Sport Act (2003)
pimâcihowin (livelihood)
pimâtisiwin (life)
Pine Falls, Man., Fort Alexander residential school (Catholic)
Plint, Arthur (teacher)
Point, Honourable Steven (Honorary Witness)
‘polishing the chain’
Poplar Hill development school, Ont. (Northern Light Gospel Mission)
Porcupines and China Dolls (Alexie)
Port Alberni, BC, Alberni residential school (Presbyterian/United)
potlatch
“Practicing Reconciliation” (TRC)
Prairie Women’s Health Centre of Excellence: “Nitâpwewininân: Ongoing Effects of Residential Schools on Aboriginal Women—Towards Inter-generational Reconciliation”
Presbyterian Church in Canada: “A Step Up . . . Tools for the Soul”
“Statement on Aboriginal Spiritual Practices”
Project of Heart (Smith)
Protectors of the Waters
Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth (Ont.)
public memory
Public Policy Forum (federal): “Building Authentic Partnerships”
Quakers (Canadian Friends Service Committee): joint statement on the Doctrine of Discovery
Québec National Event
questions of life
quilts
Qwul’sih’yah’maht (Dr. Robina Anne Thomas)
racism
Rae, Brooklyn
Raven (Kùkhhittàn)
RCAP. See Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
reconciliation: about respect
action required
arts as a means for
cities committed to
civic trust
corporate sector
“Declaration of Action”
economic sustainability
funding for healing from churches
law as obstacle
long-term
meaning of
media
neighbours
as relationship
research
resource development
sport
TRC mandate
truth necessary for
Reconciliation Canada
Red Deer Industrial School, Alta. (Methodist)
Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery
Red River College
Reid, Jennifer (historian)
Remembering the Children Society
Report of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry (Berger)
Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP)
Doctrine of Discovery
government response to
importance of
“Oka crisis”
recommendations
recommendations ignored
residential schools: cemeteries
commemoration projects
history/legacy
photographs from LAC
staff/workers experiences
student experiences. See also cemeteries; Indian Residential Schools
Returning to Spirit: Residential School Healing and Reconciliation Program
Richmond, Danny
right to self-determination: church support for
danger in ignoring
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UN)
and economic reconciliation
necessary for reconciliation
other rights flow from
RCAP support for
Robertson, Carmen (historian)
Robertson, Mayor Gregor (Honorary Witness)
Robinson, Laura (journalist)
Rogers, Shelagh (Honorary Witness)
Roman Catholic Church
Rotinoshonni. See Six Nations
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP). See Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
Royal Proclamation of 1763. See also treaties
Rozyk, Amanda (scholar)
R. v. Sparrow (1990)
Saganash, Romeo (MP, Survivor)
Sahtu Dene and Métis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement (1994)
St. Anne’s Mission, Cape Breton Island
St. Anne’s residential school, Fort Albany, Ont. See Fort Albany, Ont., St. Anne’s residential school (Catholic)
St. Germain, Gerry (Métis, senator)
St. John’s College
St. Mary’s residential school, Rat Portage, Ont. See Kenora, Ont., St. Mary’s (formerly St. Anthony’s) residential school (Catholic)
St. Paul’s College
St. Paul’s residential school, Alta.
Samuel, Wally (Survivor)
Sanderson, Sol
Sandy Bay Residential School, Manitoba (Catholic)
Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre
Saskatchewan: Community Hearing, Key First Nation
Office of the Chief Coroner
public education on treaties
vital statistics offices
Saskatchewan National Event: apology
comments
experiences
Youth Dialogue
Scott, Alma Mann (Survivor)
Scott, Andy (Aboriginal Affairs, Honorary Witness)
Scott, James (United Church)
Scott, Lisa (Survivor)
Seitcher, Ina (student)
Sellars, Bev: They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School
Seneca Nation
separation children/parents
Serpent River First Nation
Settlement Agreement. See Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement
settler societies: in Canada’s past
NRC as catalyst for change in
nuseums and archives in
in other countries
policies of
religion of
Seven Grandfather and Grandmother Teachings
Shade, Rory
Shaheed, Farida (UN Special Rapporteur)
Sharing Circles. See under traditional practices
“Sharing Truth: Creating a National Research Centre” (TRC)
sigid’m hanaak
Silver Covenant Chain
simgigyat
Simon, Mary (Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami national president)
Simon, Roger (cultural theorist)
Simone (Inuk Survivor)
Simpson, Leanne (Anishinaabe scholar, activist)
Sinclair, Justice Murray (Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner)
Sisters of Providence
sites of conscience
Six Nations. See Haudenosaunee peoples
Six Nations Reserve, Ont.
Sixties Scoop
S. L. v. Commission scolaire des Chênes (2012)
Smith, Sylvia (teacher, Honorary Witness)
Snuneymuxw First Nation
snuw’uyulh (teaching)
Snyder, Emily (sociologist)
song-duels
songs
Southern Chiefs Organization in Manitoba
Spanish flu
Special Rapporteurs. See also under United Nations; individual names
spiritual violence
Sport Canada
sports and reconciliation
Squamish Nation
Starblanket, Noel (Elder, Survivor)
Stony community
Stony Point Reserve
stories: access knowledge through
AJR project
church and government officials listening to
Condolence Ceremony
of Covenant Chain
educational
ethical response
fill need to be heard
of hockey games
importance of
of overturned canoe
from residential school staff and families
through art
toward reconciliation
as validation
of young girl bitten by dog. See also oral history; storytelling
storytelling. See also oral history; stories
“A Study on the Impacts of the Doctrine of Discovery on Indigenous Peoples, Including Mechanisms, Processes, and Instruments of Redress” (UN)
Sulsa’meeth (Elder): Deb George
Sunnybrook United Church, Red Deer, Alta.
Supreme Court of Canada
Survivor Committee: advised Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Arcand, Eugene
Williams, Barney
Survivors: apology (formal), need to hear
appreciation for education
archives kept by federal government
contribution to reconciliation
feast for Gitxsan residential school students
happy memories
language and culture, loss of
local knowledge of unmarked burials/school cemeteries
memoirs
more than victims, Treaty holders
quilt project
response to church apologies
statements in artistic formats
stories about forced Christianity
stories as public education. See also individual names
Survivors’ Circle
Sutherland, Allan (Survivor)
Sylvan Creek, Alta.
Tapiatic, Samuel (Survivor)
tâpowakêyihtamowin (faith, spirituality)
Task Force on Aboriginal Languages and Culture
Teillet, Jean (Métis lawyer)
terra nullius (lands belonging to no one)
territorial claims. See land claims
T’exelc Williams Lake Indian Band
They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School (Sellars)
Thomas, Chief Jacob “Jake.” See Hatahts’ikrehtha’ (Jacob Thomas, Cayuga Chief)
Thomas, Dr. Robina Anne. See Qwul’sih’yah’maht (Dr. Robina Anne Thomas)
Thomas-Muller, Clayton
Thundering Eagle Woman. See Mullin, Margaret (Thundering Eagle Woman, Presbyterian)
Tilden, Molly and Marlisa Brown: Our Truth: The Youth Perspective on Residential Schools
Tlicho Agreement (2005)
Tlingit peoples
Toronto School of Theology
Toronto Urban Native Ministry
totem poles. See under traditional practices
Tousilum (Elder, Survivor): Ron George
Traditional Knowledge Keepers Forum
traditional practices: ceremonial pipe
circle use
Condolence ceremony
drumming, singing, dancing
feasts
healing circle
Naabaagoondiwin ceremony
peacekeeping
pipe ceremony
potlatch
powwows
sacred fire
Sharing Circles
silence
storytelling
sweat lodge
ties to the land
Tlingit
totem poles
wampum belts
witness. See also ceremonies; Indigenous legal traditions; oral history; storytelling; witness
Treaties
of 1876, 1877
Aboriginal-Crown
and ceremonies
education on
Haudenosaunee
newcomers party to
as relationships
rights from
rights in Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982
Treaty of Niagara (1764)
Treaty of Peace and Friendship (1761)
wampum belts
trust
Trust Deed
Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC): Bentwood Box
documentation, difficulty in obtaining
education forums
Honorary Witnesses
Interim Report 2012
National Residential School Student Death Register
“Practicing Reconciliation”
recommendations/guiding principles
“Sharing Truth: Creating a National Research Centre”. See also Community Hearings; Honorary Witnesses; National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR); National Events; Traditional Knowledge Keepers Forum; individual national events
Tsilhqot’in Nation
Tsilhqot’in Nation v. British Columbia
Tsleil-Waututh Nation
Turpel-Lafond, Mary Ellen (Cree, former judge)
Turtle Island
Tuscarora Nation
Two-Row Treaty Belt. See Gus-Wen-Tah
Union of British Columbia Municipalities
United Church of Canada: “Affirming Other Spiritual Paths”
Doctrine of Discovery
educational resource on cemeteries
host of feast for Gitxsan residential school Survivors
“Living Faithfully in the Midst of Empire”
“Reviewing Partnership in the Context of Empire”
Toronto Conference
United Nations (UN): “Access to Justice in the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples”
Convention on Genocide
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (see United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples); Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Global Compact
“Outcome Document”
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
recommendations on commemoration policies
Special Rapporteur in the Field of Cultural Rights
Special Rapporteur on the Promotion of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Guarantees of Non-Recurrence
Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Doctrine of Discovery
as framework for industry
as framework for justice
as framework for reconciliation
Indigenous women’s rights
media’s role in public education/reflection indigenous cultural diversity
public education
on restoration of spiritual belief system
on rights of elderly, children and youth, and persons with disabilities
on rights to live in peace
on rights to traditional knowledge and properties
on right to self-determination
United States (US): apology to Indigenous peoples
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Université de Saint-Boniface
University College of the North
University of British Columbia
Museum of Anthropology: Speaking to Memory: Images and Voices from the St. Michael’s Residential School
University of Manitoba
Art Gallery
University of Saskatchewan, Canada Research Chairs
University of Winnipeg
Up Ghost River: A Chief’s Journey through the Turbulent Waters of Native History (Metatawabin and Shimo)
Valcourt, Bernard (Aboriginal Affairs)
Vancouver, B.C.
Venne, Muriel Stanley
Victoria Regional Event, B.C.
Vinning, Prem Singh
Vissers, Reverend Dr. John
Vital Statistics Offices
Wagamese, Richard: Indian Horse
wahkôtowin (kinship)
Walk for Reconciliation
Walsh, Dr. Andrea (Honorary Witness)
wampum belts. See also Gus-Wen-Tah
Weisgerber, Archbishop James
Wells, Victoria (intergenerational Survivor)
Wetaskiwin, Alta.
We Were Children (docu-drama)
Where the Blood Mixes (Loring)
Where the Spirit Lives (documentary)
White, Chief Doug S., III (Kwulasultun)
Whitehawk, Wilfred (Survivor)
White Rice, Ellen (Elder)
“Who am I?”
Williams, Alice (Anishinaabe quilter)
Williams, Barney (Elder/Survivor)
Williams, Robert A., Jr. (legal scholar)
Wilson, Dr. Ian (former national archivist)
witnesses: children’s art project
Commissioners as
definition/role. See also Honorary Witnesses
Wolf (Yanyèdí)
Wong, Caroline
Wood, Charles
World Conference on Indigenous Peoples (WCIP)
World Council of Churches (WCC)
World Sikh Organization of Canada
Yanyèdí (Wolf)
Youth Reconciliation Initiative
“Through Our Eyes: Changing the Canadian Lens”
Yukon Territory: Peacemaker Court and Justice Council Act
vital statistics offices
zaagi’idiwin (love)
Zembylas, Michalinas (education scholar)
zhawenimaan (blessings)