One view of Native education in the Northwest Territories, Canada

Until recently (see Devine 1994), Canadian aboriginals have been the forgotten, silent minority. Many in the public knew that small pockets of Indians existed, but believed that their culture was lost, or not worth saying. It was better to absorb them into the dominant culture. In 1991 and 1992, however, Canada gained more insight into the issues facing aboriginal people than the whole of the past 400 years had provided.