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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.
Study period at a Roman Catholic Indian Residential School in Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories. The Canadian Indian residential school system [a] was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous peoples. [b] The network was funded by the Canadian government's Department of Indian Affairs and administered by various Christian churches.
Wewoka Mission School, (also known as Ramsey Mission School) [86] near Wewoka, Seminole Nation, Indian Territory Open 1868 [87] –80 [88] by the Presbyterian Mission Board. [57] Wheelock Academy, Millerton, Oklahoma [4] closed 1955; White's Manual Labor Institute, Wabash, Indiana Open 1870 [89] –95 and operated by the Quakers [90]
As a Commonwealth country, Canada's diplomatic missions in the capitals of other Commonwealth countries are referred to as High Commissions (as opposed to embassies).Canada has diplomatic and consular offices (including honorary consuls that are not included in this list) in over 270 locations in approximately 180 foreign countries.
Led by Dr. Percy Moore and Dr. Frederick Tisdall, the research mission was sponsored by Indian Affairs, Milbank Memorial Fund, Royal Canadian Air Force and Hudson's Bay Company. [4] The goal of this initial survey was to investigate sustenance patterns and nutritional states of the Indigenous people in these communities by administering ...
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."
According to a 1953 survey, 4,313 children of 10,112 residential school children were described as either orphans or originated from broken homes. [32] The sole residential school in Canada's Atlantic Provinces, in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, was one such school, taking in children whom child welfare agencies believed to be at risk. There is an ...
Ryerson's work at the camp freed Jones to begin taking lengthy missionary expeditions to other parts of Upper Canada. During the period 1825–27, Jones undertook missionary missions to Quinte, Munceytown, Rice Lake and Lake Simcoe. He preached in the native language, a key factor to helping the Indians understand and accept Christianity; small ...