At a up to date convention in Saskatchewan, indigenous and non-indigenous delegates from North and South the United States, New Zealand, Australia, and Europe addressed cultural recovery and the problems and demanding situations confronting Aboriginal peoples because of decolonization. Their goal was once to figure out how Aboriginal cultural rights in postcolonial societies may be restored and the way to discover new techniques for shielding, therapeutic, and restoring cultures and languages of long-oppressed peoples.
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