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RCAP IDENTIFIES RACISM AND THE NEED FOR EDUCATION AND AWARENESS - SOME EXCERPTS


The result of Canada's history of colonialism, genocide, and policies of assimilation, is that racism is the most severe problem facing Aboriginal and First Nations Peoples in Canada today. The primary means to address these manifestations of racism, and the racism itself, is through education - public education and in the schools. These themes crop up repeatedly in the final Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP).