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Article

Publication Date

1997

Source Publication

Canada Watch Vol. 5 No. 5, pp.77-79

Abstract

The Aboriginal peoples have been living on the land in what is now Canada and deriving their livelihood from its natural resources for thousands of years. Elder Alex Stead, at a public hearing held by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) in Winnipeg on April 22, 1992, put it this way: "We are so close to the land. This is my body when you see this mother earth, because I live by it. Without that water, we dry up, we die. Without food from the animals, we die, because we got to live on that. That's why I call that spirit, and that's why we communicate with spirits. We thank them every day that we are alive" (RCAP Report, vol.2, Pt. 2,435-36).

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Copyrighted by York University, Centre for Public Law and Public Policy; the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, 1997

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