Looking Forward, Looking Back: Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Volume 1

The time has come for tears of sorrow to be wiped away and our throats to be cleared of dust, and for us to speak in a frank and open way about our future in this land we share.

The Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) concerns government policy with respect to the original historical nations of this country. Those nations are important to Canada, and how Canada relates to them defines in large measure its sense of justice and its image in its own eyes and before the world.

The RCAP was established by Order in Council on August 26, 1991, and it submitted its report in October 1996.

This is volume one of five volumes. All of the volumes may be downloaded from Library and Archives Canada.