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DESCRIPTION:On June 11\, 2008\, Prime Minister Stephen Harper made a Statem
 ent\nof Apology to former students of Indian Residential Schools on\nbehal
 f of the Government of Canada.\nThis apology is among other initiatives un
 dertaken\, including a\nsettlement agreement for students of the Indian Re
 sidential Schools\nand a Truth and Reconciliation Commission\, aimed at in
 itiating a\nprocess of renewed relations among indigenous and non-indigeno
 us\npeoples in Canada. The apology\, the settlement agreement and the\nTRC
  have been criticized by many Indigenous peoples who were also\nsubjected 
 to residential schools but fall outside the scope of\nthese initiatives.\n
 In addition\, these initiatives are focused on the redress of\nharms relat
 ed to a narrow aspect of Canadian policy and ignore the\nbroader consequen
 ces of decades of discrimination and racism that\nindigenous peoples in Ca
 nada have faced. Addressing these broader\nconsequences is an integral par
 t of decolonization in Canada\; a\nprocess that goes beyond the Government
  of Canada and engages both\nindigenous and non-indigenous peoples.\nThis 
 colloquium aims at exploring some of the limitations and\nchallenges that 
 we face in this process of decolonization drawing\non the Indian Residenti
 al School experience as the background. We\nwill be joined by:\nClément Ch
 artier is President of the Métis\nNational Council. Chartier received his 
 law degree from the\nUniversity of Saskatchewan in 1978\, was called to th
 e Saskatchewan\nBar in 1980 and received the Queen's Counsel designation i
 n 2004.\nDuring his political career\, Chartier has held a number of\nexec
 utive positions in Indigenous political bodies\, including:\nNative Youth 
 Association of Canada\, Association of Métis and\nNon-Status Indians of Sa
 skatchewan\, Métis National Council (MNC)\,\nWorld Council of Indigenous P
 eoples President\, and Métis\nNation-Saskatchewan. A strong advocate for M
 étis rights\, Chartier\nwas the defendants' counsel in R. v. Grumbo (1996)
 \, in\nR. v. Morin and Daigneault (1996)\, and in\nR. v. Belhumeur (2007).
  He also served as MNC counsel\nin its intervention in the 2003 Supreme Co
 urt of Canada R. v.\nPowley. In December 2010\, Chartier's book\, Witness 
 to\nResistance: Under Fire in Nicaragua was released.\nGerald Taiaiake Alf
 red is a full Professor and\nfounding Director of the Indigenous Governanc
 e Program at the\nUniversity of Victoria. He specializes in traditions of 
 governance\,\ndecolonization strategies\, and land-based cultural restorat
 ion.\nTaiaiake has been awarded a Canada Research Chair\, a National\nAbor
 iginal Achievement Award in the field of education\, and the\nNative Ameri
 can Journalists Association award for best column\nwriting.\nHis writing i
 ncludes numerous scholarly articles and contributed\nessays in newspapers 
 and journals\, substantial book-length project\nreports for First Nations 
 and government clients\, as well as three\npublished books\, Wasáse\, name
 d one of the decade's most\ninfluential books by the Native American and I
 ndigenous Studies\nAssociation in 2010\; Peace\, Power\, Righteousness\; a
 nd\,\nHeeding the Voices of Our Ancestors.\nPaulette Regan\, PhD (Indigeno
 us Governance\,\nUniversity of Victoria) is currently Senior Researcher\, 
 Historical\nMemory and Reconciliation Project\, for the Truth and Reconcil
 iation\nCommission of Canada\, and a Research Fellow at the Liu Institute
 \nfor Global Issues at the University of British Columbia. Paulette\nhas w
 orked\, since 1986\, on various historical research and policy\ndevelopmen
 t projects related to Indigenous treaty and land rights\nand social justic
 e issues. Her most recent publication\,\nUnsettling the Settler Within: In
 dian Residential Schools\,\nTruth-telling and Reconciliation in Canada exp
 lores the\npedagogical potential of truth and reconciliation processes as
 \n'unsettling\,' decolonizing\, transformative\, and liberatory sites of\n
 truth\, resistance and critical hope. She argues that in order to\ntruly p
 articipate in the transformative possibilities of\nreconciliation\, non-In
 digenous Canadians must undergo their own\nprocess of decolonization.\nThi
 s event is brought to you by the CHRLP and the Aboriginal Law\nStudents' A
 ssociation at ºÚÁÏÍø±¬³Ô¹Ï. For more\ninformation: ala.law [at] mcgill.ca.\n
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LOCATION:Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644 rue Peel
SUMMARY:The Indian Residential School Experience in Canada: Limitations and
  Challenges to Healing
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