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DESCRIPTION:\n\nOn June 11\, 2008\, then Prime Minister Stephen Harper apol
 ogized for the harms caused by establishing the residential school system.
  He said\, “The Government of Canada sincerely apologizes and asks the for
 giveness of the Aboriginal peoples of this country for failing them so pro
 foundly. We are sorry.” Dr. Beverley Jacobs is an intergenerational surviv
 or and was President of the Native Women’s Association of Canada at the ti
 me and had the opportunity to respond on the floor of the House of Commons
  in front of millions of people. During this webinar\, she will share her 
 experience and her thoughts post-apology.\n\nThis event will be held in En
 glish.\n\nAbout Beverley Jacobs\, CM\, LLB\, LLM\, PhD Bear Clan\, Mohawk 
 Nation \n\nRecently appointed as Senior Advisor to the President on Indige
 nous Relations and Outreach at the University of Windsor\, Dr. Beverley Ja
 cobs is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of 
 Windsor and practices law part-time in her home community of Six Nations o
 f the Grand River Territory. Her research focuses on Indigenous Legal Orde
 rs\, Indigenous Wholistic Health\, Indigenous Research Methodologies\, and
  Decolonization of Eurocentric Law.\n\nBeverley obtained a Bachelor of Law
  Degree from the University of Windsor in 1994\, a Master of Law Degree fr
 om the University of Saskatchewan in 2000\, and a Ph.D. from the Universit
 y of Calgary in 2018.\n\nDr. Jacobs is a former President of the Native Wo
 men’s Association of Canada (elected 2004 to 2009) and also a consultant/r
 esearcher/writer/public speaker. Her work centres around ending gendered c
 olonial violence against Indigenous people and restoring Indigenous laws\,
  beliefs\, values\, and traditions.\n\nA prolific scholar\, her published 
 work has earned her numerous awards\; her research combined with her advoc
 acy has translated into national and international recognition. Dr. Jacobs
  received the Laura Legge Award from the Law Society of Ontario in 2021 an
 d she was inducted as a Member of the Order of Canada in 2018. She receive
 d two awards from Mohawk College in 2018: Alumni of Distinction Award and 
 Distinguished Fellow – Adjunct Professor. In her first year of teaching at
  the Faculty of Law at the University of Windsor in 2017\, she received an
  Office of Human Rights\, Equity & Accessibility\, Human Rights and Social
  Justice Award. In 2016\, she received a Franco-German Prize for Human Rig
 hts and the Rule of Law from the Governments of France and Germany for her
  human rights fight for the issues relating to missing and murdered Indige
 nous women and girls in Canada. In 2008\, she also received a Governor Gen
 eral’s Award in Commemoration of the Person’s Case\, an Esquao Award from 
 the Institute for the Advancement of Aboriginal Women and a Canadian Voice
  of Women of Peace Award from the Canadian Department of Peace Initiative 
 and Civilian Peace Service Canada.\n\nWatch the Replay\n
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SUMMARY:The Apology 24 Years After
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/channels/channels/event/apology-24-years-after-33
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