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Reconciliation and friendship is what we seek to re-build a better future together. April ended with the opportunities for May flowers to bloom as National Chief Phil Fontaine met with Pope Benedict XVI seeking an apology from the Catholic church for its role in the Indian Residential School saga. The purpose: to discuss the [...]

Question: Why do you believe that the government was so interested in aboriginal children? Dr. Jacqueline Maurice: “It was both the Federal government and the Provincial government working together, I would definitely say that the Feds as well as the Province saw First Nations communities and families and especially parents as inadequate and unable to parent their [...]

Nena Lacaille, Executive Director, Enaahitg Healing Lodge: “In the twelve years that we have run programs hear in Enaatig Healing Lodge, I have to say that the one underlying cause of most of the issues that families are dealing with have to do with self-esteem. And so if we can address the issue of low [...]

Why do you think there are so many Aboriginal Children in care in British Columbia? Marie Tonasket – Director Child Welfare (Splatsin) Spallumcheen Indian Band “In my experience it starts right from the very beginning, from the moment when they meet a social worker. And most typically these workers are non-native, middle class and they [...]