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The Spirit Has No Colour Changing Police/Aboriginal Relationships
Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia

Video
Contributors
Kendall, Nicholas; Neville, Keet; McClaren, Norma-Jean; Hovbrender, Axel; Police Academy (B.C.); Orca Productions.; 42nd Street Consulting.
Description
"A training film for B.C.'s municipal police recruits on the relationship between police and Aboriginal peoples. The intention of the film is to provide a first step training for recruits on: the history of Aboriginal peoples (First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples), particularly in B.C. ; the role of police in the enforcement of laws of Canada that today are deemed to have been damaging to the Aboriginal peoples [...] ; the experience of the Aboriginal peoples through that lens, showing what police will see on the streets and in the communities today, both the powerfully positive and the profoundly negative ; the consequence of generations of children being taken from families and entered into the residential schools of this country [...] ; and finally, connecting issues of drug and alcohol abuse, family disintegration and loss of identity to the sexual, psychological, physical and other abuses common in the schools."

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Alternate Title(s)
Changing police/aboriginal relationships
Edition
Letterbox
Publication Information
[Vancouver BC] : Orca Productions/42nd Street Consulting
Physical Description
1 videodisc (ca. 44 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences 4 3/4 in. +
Notes
This DVD does not have scene selection.;"A training film for police recruits"--booklet cover.;"A joint production of the Police Academy, Justice Institute of British Columbia, 42nd Street Consulting and Orca Productions"--Container.
Contents
History -- Police & Aboriginal peoples -- Changing relationships -- Next steps.
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