Building the New "Found" Generation: The Indigenous Recovery Corps

View archived Policy Briefs; The Policy Brief is a digital and print publication, written by JSGS scholars and leading policy experts, to provide context and perspective on important public issues and to further discussion and debate within the public sector. It provides policy makers and those inte...

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Main Author: Coates, Ken
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Published: 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10294/12282
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Summary:View archived Policy Briefs; The Policy Brief is a digital and print publication, written by JSGS scholars and leading policy experts, to provide context and perspective on important public issues and to further discussion and debate within the public sector. It provides policy makers and those interested in policy formation with timely and expert analysis, observations and potential policy approaches to relevant issues concerning the public. Over the last century, Indigenous communities have had generation after generation of young leaders stolen from them. It started with waves of epidemic diseases that killed tens of thousands of people and undermined First Nations for decades, leaving them seriously weakened. Residential schools subsequently removed thousands of Indigenous youth and later returned the young people to their communities, hurt and alienated from their cultures.