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John Kim Bell OC OOnt (born October 8, 1952) is Canada’s first Indigenous symphony-orchestra conductor, the founder of the country’s precedent-setting National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation (today known as Indspire) and the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards (today known as the Indspire Awards) and one of Canada's leading energy resource consultants representing First Nations.
James Evans (January 18, 1801 – November 23, 1846) was an English-Canadian Wesleyan Methodist missionary and amateur linguist. He is known for creating the syllabic writing system for Ojibwe and Cree , which was later adapted to other languages such as Inuktitut .
In order to receive funding from the Canadian Government for the OMI mission to the Dene people, the area they served needed to be under treaty. [14] From 1909 to 1921, Oblate Gabriel-Joseph-Elie Breynat, Vicar Apostolic of Mackenzie and titular Bishop, [15] lobbied and negotiated so that the Dene would have such a treaty but reception from the Canadian government was lukewarm.
American Indian Film Festival best music video award (2020) [1] January Marie Rogers (born 1963) is a First Nations Mohawk / Tuscarora writer from the Six Nations in Ontario . [ 1 ] [ 3 ] Her work includes poetry and spoken-word performance poetry.
Founded in the 19th century, the Canadian Indian residential school system was intended to force the assimilation of Aboriginal and First Nations people into European-Canadian society. [76] The purpose of the schools, which separated children from their families, has been described by commentators as "killing the Indian in the child." [77] [78]
Beginning in 1874 and lasting until 1996, the Canadian government, in partnership with the dominant Christian Churches, ran 130 residential boarding schools across Canada for Aboriginal children, who were forcibly taken from their homes. [135] While the schools provided some education, they were plagued by under-funding, disease, and abuse. [136]
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Cree syllabics were developed for Ojibwe by James Evans, a missionary in what is now Manitoba in the 1830s. Evans had originally adapted the Latin script to Ojibwe (see Evans system), but after learning of the success of the Cherokee syllabary, [additional citation(s) needed] he experimented with invented scripts based on his familiarity with shorthand and Devanagari.