Canada names new residential school commission
Thursday, June 11, 2009
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First Nations
The
Indian Residential Schools Truth
and Reconciliation Commission has been revived with three new members.
Justice Murray
Sinclair, the first Native person appointed to the bench in Manitoba, will serve as chairman.
Wilton Littlechild, the Alberta regional chief for the
Assembly of First Nations, and Marie
Wilson, a former regional director of CBC North, will serve as members.
"It's a daunting task, almost scary," Sinclair told CBC News. "I don't think there's any greater honour that an individual can have in life than to be able to help somebody else."
The commission has five years to deliver a report on residential schools as part of a $1.9 billion settlement that included a formal apology from the Canadian government.
"We are traumatized people who are just crawling out of our horrors and … we need a place to share stories that's safe." Willie Blackwater, head of the
National Association of Residential School Survivors told CBC News.
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