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Article: B.C. government listening to summit's concerns (First Nations summit concerned with murals hanging in legislature).
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- Wind Speaker
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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VICTORIA
Concerns voiced by the First Nations Summit in British Columbia are being addressed on two different fronts, with a panel struck to look at controversial murals hanging in the provincial legislature, and a number of place names viewed as offensive being eliminated across the province.
The future of four murals hanging in the rotunda of the legislature is to be decided by a special panel formed by Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, Bill Hartley at the end of November. The panel was formed in response to complaints from the First Nations Summit that the murals are offensive, portraying Aboriginal people in a demeaning way.
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