Exhibit
Contemporary Role Models
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Shirley I. Williams, Ojibway, attended St. Joseph's Residential School in Spanish River, Ontario, at the age of 10. As a professor in the Department of Native Studies at Trent University, Peterborough, she has published teaching materials for Ojibway language and is working on a contemporary language CD-ROM.
Shirley Williams
Photographer: Jeff Thomas
Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, 2002
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Judge Alfred Scow, Kwicksutaineuk First Nation, Gilford Island Band, hereditary chief. Judge Scow was born in Alert Bay, British Colombia, where he attended St. Michael's Residential School. He is the first Aboriginal to be called to the bar in British Colombia and presides over the Provincial Court in Coquitlam.
Alfred Scow
Photographer: Jeff Thomas
Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, 2002
Ektacolour print
