Item N-2001-016: CN-124B - Louis Riel

• Sound recording

1 audio cassette (63 min.)

This item consists of two recordings. Both of the recordings are in English. The original source item is side B of a120 minute audio cassette. The first recording (about 40 minutes) is the first part of a two-part interview of a female staff member of the Dene-Metis Land Claims Secretariat, recorded by an unidentified female interviewer. Topics of discussion include duplications of effort among Indigenous organizations and corporations, single or separate (Dene and Metis) institutions following the land claim, one organization for the Dene and Metis, hiring Indigenous people with degrees, resource sharing, wildlife harvest studies, resource management, and devolution. The interview also includes frank appraisals of the attitudes, motivations, and actions of several Indigenous and territorial leaders and bureaucrats, including Lynda Sorenson, Stephen Kakfwi, Richard Nerysoo, Tagak Curley, Nellie Cournoyea, and Jim Bourque. The second recording (about 23 minutes) is the first part of a two-part recording of a CBC Morningside episode hosted by Peter Gzowski about Louis Riel and broadcast on May 7, 1985. The full broadcast took the form of a commission of inquiry on whether Riel should be pardoned by the Canadian Government. This portion of the recording includes the concluding statements of the two lawyers, Ian Scott and Claude Thomson, and the deliberations of some of the twelve jurors.