Honouring the Truth Reconciling for the Future

Introduction • 23Endnotes1. For coercion, see: Ray, Illustrated History, 151–152. For fraud, see: Upton, “Origins of CanadianIndian Policy,” 56. For failure to implement Treaties, see: Sprague, Canada’s Treaties withAboriginal People, 13. For taking land without Treaty, see Fisher, Contact and Conflict.2. For examples from Saskatchewan, see: Miller, Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens, 222; Stonechild,“Indian View,” 263; Wiebe, “Mistahimaskwa,” http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mistahimaskwa_11E.html(accessed 14 July 2014).3. Barron, “Indian Pass System.”4. For an example, see: An Act to amend and consolidate the laws respecting Indians, Statutes ofCanada 1880, chapter 28, section 72, reproduced in Venne, Indian Acts, 75.5. For examples, see Brown. “Economic Organization and the Position of Women;” Fiske, “FishingIs Women’s Business;” Klein, “Mother as Clanswoman.”6. An Act for the gradual enfranchisement of Indians, Statutes of Canada 1869, chapter 42, reproducedin Venne, Indian Acts, 11.7. For an example, see: An Act further to amend “The Indian Act, 1880,” Statutes of Canada 1884,chapter 27, section 3, reproduced in Venne, Indian Acts, 93.8. Canada, House of Commons Debates (9 May 1883), 1107–1108.9. Library and Archives Canada, RG10, volume 6810, file 470-2-3, volume 7, Evidence of D.C. Scott to the Special Committee of the House of Commons Investigating the Indian Actamendments of 1920, (L-2)(N-3).10. Canada, “Statement of the Government of Canada on Indian Policy,” page 20 of 24-page portabledocument format file.11. Canada, Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs, 1931, 60.12. Indian Residential Schools Settlement – Official Court Website, http://www.residentialschoolsettlement.ca/schools.html(accessed 5 February 2015).13. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Statement of Apology – to former students of Indian ResidentialSchools, 11 June 2008, http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100015644/1100100015649.14. TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, RG10, volume 7936, file 32-104, J. W. House to G. H.Gooderham, 26 January 1942. [OLD-004156-0001]15. Canada, Special Joint Committee, 1947, 1474.16. Canada, Special Joint Committee, 1947, 1508–1509.17. TRC, NRA, The Presbyterian Church in Canada Archives, Toronto, ON, Acc. 1988-7004, box46, file 1, “Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School,” J. C. E. Andrews, 1953, 36. [NCA-009046]18. TRC, NRA, INAC – Resolution Sector – IRS Historical Files Collection – Ottawa, GRS Files, box1A, file 43, Albert Southard, 8 March 1957. [IRC-040039]19. Renaud, “Indian Education Today,” 30.20. TRC, AVS, Alma Mann Scott, Statement to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada,Winnipeg, Manitoba, 17 June 2010, Statement Number: 02-MB-16JU10-016.21. For further information on these issues, see the Legacy section below.22. Media coverage on the call for an inquiry on missing and murdered Aboriginal women hasbeen extensive. See, for example: “Women’s Memorial March in Vancouver Attracts Hundreds,”CBC News, 14 February 2015, http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/womens-memorial-march-in-vancouver-attracts-hundreds-1.2957930; “Murdered andMissing Aboriginal Women Deserve Inquiry, Rights Group Says,” CBC News, 12 January 2015,