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Calvin Murray Sinclair CC OM MSC (Ojibway name Mizanay (Mizhana) Gheezhik; January 24, 1951 – November 4, 2024) was a Canadian politician who was a member of the Senate, and a First Nations lawyer who served as chairman of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission from 2009 to 2015.
The judge and senator who chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into Canadian residential schools' abuse of Indigenous children has died. Murray Sinclair, born near Selkirk, Manitoba ...
Originally from Selkirk, Manitoba [1] Sinclair is the son of judge and senator Murray Sinclair.. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Education from the University of Winnipeg, a Master of Arts in Native- and African-American Literatures from the University of Oklahoma, and a Doctor of Philosophy in First Nations and American Literatures at the University of British Columbia.
Justice Murray Sinclair at the 2015 Shingwauk Gathering and Conference at Algoma University. In 2008, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was established to travel across Canada collecting the testimonies of people affected by the residential school system. About 7,000 Indigenous people told their stories. [197]
However, Justice Murray Sinclair, the chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission later stated that they only included deaths of children that they had records for and that the true number of deaths could be as high as 6,000. [22] Most of the recorded student deaths at residential schools took place before the 1950s.
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On June 10, 2009, Murray Sinclair was appointed to replace Laforme as chairperson of the TRC. Marie Wilson , a senior executive with the Workers' Safety and Compensation Commission of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, and Wilton Littlechild , former Conservative Member of Parliament and Alberta regional chief for the Assembly of First ...