Canadian Heritage committee  In terms of reclaiming our ways, our spirituality and our practices, repatriation is really important to us. I spoke about the woman's hood that we found in a museum in Montreal. Those hoods are similar to hoods used by other Algonquian nations, like the M'ikmaq, and they are a

Canadian Heritage committee  It's all about creating partnerships and collaborations. Those have to be well thought out, but the will is there on both sides in terms of indigenous cultural institutes such as ours and in terms of southern museums and other public education organizations. I don't think it's

Canadian Heritage committee  In terms of the question about what stays in museums and what goes back to communities, the key is really that indigenous communities and nations need to be the leaders in the discussion, because the expertise about the objects lies in the communities. In my opening remarks I t

Canadian Heritage committee  We have great relationships that we've developed with southern museums. We have loan agreements with them. We also develop our own travelling exhibits that we share with museums across the country. Just now we have a travelling exhibit, entitled “Footprints: A Walk Through Gene

Canadian Heritage committee  I would open up the program and rewrite it so that the same funding amounts were available to indigenous organizations through the aboriginal program funding stream under MAP. I would also look at the requirements that institutions had to meet in terms of numbers of staff and whe

Canadian Heritage committee  We frequently apply for funding from the museum assistance program. Normally, we use it for exhibit development and things like database development. The problem with the museum assistance program as it stands right now is that the aboriginal sector of the program is funded at a

Canadian Heritage committee  [Witness speaks in indigenous language] Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you also to the committee. [Witness speaks in indigenous language] I am very honoured to be here on unceded Algonquin territory to speak about the very important bill that we're discussing today. Aan