Archive for the 'Bandwagon Tour' Category

Jul 20 2008

Chief Donavan Fontaine - Resource Sharing and Child Care

Published by Randy/ Jannica under Bandwagon Tour

There is a direct link between the limited funds for decent housing and the physical and mental health of our families. Poverty is linked to housing and as you see this house here, if I were a Child and Family worker and was assessing the home, I would consider health, would consider safety and overcrowding. Obviously [...]

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Jul 08 2008

Splatsin - Spallumcheen Indian Band - July 7th

Published by Randy/ Jannica under Bandwagon Tour

Chief Wayne Christian and Marie Tonasket - Denommee, Director of Splatsin Child and Family Preservation Team including Jayne Taylor, Tresha Stevens and Vivian Bonneau   Lately in the province of BC their looking at doing an Aboriginal child welfare legislation, which I think is the direction that we want to go.    It makes a huge difference when you try [...]

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Jun 29 2008

We Have Started our Journey In Victoria BC

Honourable Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond British Coumbia’s First Representative for Children and Youth Head of the independent over site body for BC Ministry of Children and Families.   What follows is an overview of her on camera interview. And most troubling to me is that the number of non-aboriginal children in government care goes down year after year wile the [...]

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Jun 23 2008

The Bandwagon, Native Adoptions & the 60’s Scoop

The Bandwagon gives voice to the tens of thousands of children who, in the 1960’s through 80’s, were literally scooped from their homes without the consent and in many cases without the knowledge of their parents or communities. The film crew will travel from Band to Band across Canada interviewing the children affected by this [...]

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May 22 2008

The Bandwagon, native adoptions and the 60’s scoop

The Bandwagon gives voice to the tens of thousands of children who, in the 1960’s through 80’s, were literally scooped from their homes without the consent and in many cases without the knowledge of their parents or communities. The film crew will travel from Band to Band across Canada interviewing the children affected by this [...]

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