Formerly known as the Department of Indian Affairs, Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (or INAC) was the department of the Government of Canada responsible for policies supporting and relating to Canada’s Indigenous people. In 2017, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dissolved INAC and announced a plan to create two new departments: Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, and Indigenous Services Canada.
Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) Quotes in Seven Fallen Feathers
The Seven Fallen Feathers quotes below are all either spoken by Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) or refer to Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC). For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 3: When the Wolf Comes
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Parents sent their children to DFC by choice. It is not a residential school. It is not run by the church, nor is it strictly regulated by Indigenous and Northern Affairs. It is an Indigenous-run private school. But the only other choice parents had was to abandon their children's high school education or pick up and move to a city.
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Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) Term Timeline in Seven Fallen Feathers
The timeline below shows where the term Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) appears in Seven Fallen Feathers. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 2: Why Chanie Ran
The Department of Indian Affairs (now known as INAC) knew, from the late 19th century onward, that students were being sexually abused in the...
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Chapter 4: Hurting from the Before
By 2004, it was clear even to Canadian government officials that INAC—the branch of government responsible for Indigenous and Northern Affairs—wasn’t making any progress in addressing the...
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Chapter 7: Brothers
...so did the NNEC, the Office of the Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth, and INAC. NAN and Rhoda King filed motions questioning the validity of the five-member jury. It was...
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