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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.
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.
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]
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]
From art and music, to law and government, to sports and war; Indigenous customs and culture have had a strong influences on defining Canadian culture. [1] [2] [3] The Indspire Awards are the annual awards presented by Indspire, formerly the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation. [4]
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After graduating, she was an assistant professor at the University of Manitoba from 2005 to 2008 and at the University of Alberta from 2008 to 2009. In 2010, she returned Western University as an associate professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences, serving as director for the International Centre for Olympic Studies at Western until 2015.
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