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  2. Rebecca Jamieson - Wikipedia

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    Jamieson received a Native Social Counsellor Certificate from the University of Toronto, and an Ontario Teacher Certificate from the Ontario Teacher Education College, Hamilton. She received a BA in psychology and philosophy from Wilfrid Laurier University, and Master of Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in 1978. [1] [3]

  3. Indigenous education in Canada - Wikipedia

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    According to the Ontario chapter of the Canadian Federation of Students, indigenous peoples have a right to education under the terms of the Royal Proclamation of 1763, Constitution Act, 1982, and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (Canada),and the United Nations' Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, but that these rights have historically been ...

  4. First Nations nutrition experiments - Wikipedia

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    The First Nations nutrition experiments were a series of experiments run in Canada by Department of Pensions and National Health (now Health Canada) in the 1940s and 1950s. The experiments were conducted on at least 1,300 Indigenous people across Canada, approximately 1,000 of whom were children. [1]

  5. Trent University - Wikipedia

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    The university's Geography Department was set up in 1968, [13] and in 1969 the university offered Canada's first Native Studies program. [10] [14] In 2017, Trent announced the Trent University Research & Innovation Park (since renamed to Cleantech Commons). [15] That year the university enrolled about 3,500 new students. [16]

  6. Canadian Indian residential school system - Wikipedia

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    Boarding schools in Canada worked towards assimilation of Native students. Historians Brian Klopotek and Brenda Child explain, "Education for Indians was not mandatory in Canada until 1920, long after compulsory attendance laws were passed in the United States, although families frequently resisted sending their children to the residential schools.

  7. Canadian genocide of Indigenous peoples - Wikipedia

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    The First Nations nutrition experiments were a series of experiments run in Canada by Department of Pensions and National Health (now Health Canada). The experiments were conducted between 1942 and 1952 using Indigenous children from residential schools in Alberta , British Columbia , Manitoba , Nova Scotia , and Ontario . [ 129 ]

  8. First Nations in Canada - Wikipedia

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    The parallel term Native Canadian is not commonly used, but Native (in English) and Autochtone (in Canadian French; from the Greek auto, own, and chthon, land) are. Under the Royal Proclamation of 1763, [22] also known as the "Indian Magna Carta," [23] the Crown referred to Indigenous peoples in British territory as tribes or nations.

  9. Indigenous peoples in Canada - Wikipedia

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    The Métis population rose by 6. 3%, and the Inuit population grew by 8. 5%. More than half of First Nations people (55. 5%) lived in Western Canada as of 2021. Ontario had the highest number of First Nations people, with 251,030, which is about 23. 9% of the total First Nations population.