"Collected Essays & Personal Reflections"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

Learning to Listen / Sara Fryer -- Part I. The Past Informs the Present -- Were we Ready Then -- Are we Ready Now? / Garnet Angeconeb -- Nothing to Celebrate [speech, Oct. 1989] / George Erasmus -- Sounds Like Canada interview (01/24/2005) / Andrea Webb -- The Indian Residential School System: "From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success!" / Justice Harry S. Laforme -- Is There Hope? / Janice Cindy Gaudet and William Louttit -- Part II. Reconciliation -- Ka'swenh:tha -- the Two Row Wampum: Reconciliation Through an Ancient Agreement / Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel -- The Metis Victory: Daniels v. the Crown, 2013 / Tony Belcourt -- Conversations with a Dead Man: The Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott (introduction and excerpt from book) / Mark Ablely -- Remarks in House of Commons, Jun. 11, 2008 / Mary Simon -- Part III. Hope -- Honorary Witness Statement, Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada / Stephen Lewis -- "It's like two sides of an eagle's feathers. Both are needed to fly." / Cassandra J. Opikokew Wajuntah -- Speaking My Truth: One Room at a Time / Greg Lowry and Shelagh Rogers -- Authentic Connections Among Daughters of Residential School Survivors / Lorena Sekwan Fontaine, Lisa Forbes, Wendy McNab, Lisa Murdock, and Roberta Stout -- Aboriginal Canada Today: Changing the Course of History / The Right Honourable Paul Martin -- Time to Get Our Indian Act Together for First Nations Students [with Postscript] / Wayne K. Spear -- Afterword / Mike DeGagne.