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The Story of a National Crime
Peter Henderson Bryce was a medical doctor, civil servant and public health expert. In 1907, after surveying 35 residential schools, he submitted a report to the Department of Indian Affairs detailing clear connections between Residential Schools, tuberculosis and high student mortality rates. His recommendations fell on deaf ears and would not be revealed publicly until he was forced to retire. Fifteen years after his initial report, he published an 18-page “appeal for justice”—a pamphlet containing his findings and recommendations, and condemning the government’s lack of action to address illness and death in the Residential School System and First Nation communities. Indigenous peoples continued to experience disproportionate impacts of tuberculosis for years to come. Eventual federal intervention involved a confusing web of enforced medical care leaving Survivors and patients’ families to seek answers and closure.
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Since 2000, we have worked with Survivors, Indigenous communities, researchers, curators, and educators to develop educational resources to increase public awareness and knowledge of the history and effects of the Residential School System and the ongoing experiences Indigenous Peoples continue to face. Our projects include mobile exhibitions, websites, applications, publications, and several bilingual curriculums, including a program called Generations Lost–The Residential School System in Canada.
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The Legacy of Hope Foundation Presents – Roots & Hoots Episode 52: Featuring Shelley Niro
The Legacy of Hope Foundation Presents – Roots & Hoots Episode 51: Featuring Apooyak’ii/Dr. Tiffany Hind Bull-Prete (Ottawa, ON) – May 8, 2024 – On this week’s episode of Roots and Hoots, host Gordon Spence is thrilled to be joined by artist and filmmaker Shelley Niro. Shelley is a member of the Six Nations Reserve, Turtle Clan, of the Bay of Quinte Mohawk. In this interview, Shelley and Gordon discuss the evolution of Shelley’s artistic process and her recent film Café Daughter. As a multidisciplinary artist, Shelley uses a variety of mediums such as painting, beadwork, photography and film, to challenge the stereotyping of Indigenous Peoples, and to feature themes of family, love and storytelling in her work. Shelley sees the doing and the completing of projects, as some of the most important aspects of her longevity as an artist, and she shares how inspiration for her work presents itself all the time. Shelley enjoys the process of filmmaking and describes it as a rich art form. Most recently, Shelley wrote and directed the film Café Daughter, based on the play of the same name by Kenneth T. Williams, both of which are inspired by the life and experiences of Dr. Lillian Eva Quan Dyck, OC - the first Canadian Senator of Chinese and Cree descent. Of the film, Café Daughter, Lillian has expressed: “It's like a story of Reconciliation - on the individual personal level. Now that Canada is in a period of Reconciliation, Café Daughter is the perfect story of one girl