Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Remarks by Peter Katuk (via translator)
Database ID | 28710 | |
Institution | University of Saskatchewan Archives | |
Fonds/Collection | Native Law Centre fonds | |
File/Item Reference | Reference Library, RCAP vol. 1 (Box 1) | |
Date of creation | April 21, 1992 | |
Physical description/extent | 7 pgs | |
Number of images | 7 | |
Scope and content | File contains opening remarks by Peter Katuk(via a translator) regarding the situation for Inuit people in the Northwest Territories: the struggle for survival, his own birth in an igloo in 1921, how life is a learning experience, how the Inuit people have been left out of Canada, how the Cree and the Hudson Bay Company were condescending and bossy to the Inuit, an incident between his father and the RCMP who made his father relocate his home from Repulse Bay, the need to amend what Katuk describes as the defeat of Aboriginal people in Canada, how his people assisted southerners who came to the North and how southerners could not survive without them, how he saw a stone house in the arctic whose white inhabitants had died from hypothermia and how "if there were Inuit around, they probably would have survived," that white people need to acknowledge that they survived in this land with the help of Aboriginal people, and that everybody should be treated as equals. | |
Other terms governing use and reproduction | Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - Transcriptions of Public Hearings and Round Table Discussions, 1992-1993. Reproduced with the permission of the Minister of Public Works and Government Services, and Courtesy of the Privy Council Office, 2008. | |
Type | Published | |
Primary Media | Textual documents | |
Provenance Access Point | University of Saskatchewan. Native Law Centre | |
Other notes | Part of Volume 1, Fort Garry Place, Winnipeg, Manitoba. pgs 84-90. | |
Place | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | |
Treaty boundaries | Treaty 1 Canada -- National | |
Cultural region | Arctic Plains Canada -- National | |
Names | Katuk, Peter Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples | |
Subject | Government commissions -- Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Inuit Affairs Inuit Affairs Inuit Affairs Inuit Affairs Royal Canadian Mounted Police Indigenous Relations Indigenous Peoples General Early European Settlers Relocation Cree | |
Date Range(s) | 1990-1999 1920-1929 1930-1939 | |
Permanent Link | https://digital.scaa.sk.ca/ourlegacy/permalink/28710 |