By Chevi Rabbit  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Crystal Gail Fraser is an assistant professor at the University of Alberta who teaches Canadian History. Her expertise is in the history of Canada’s residential schools and she is one of Canada’s top TRC advocates advancing the conversation of Truth and Reconciliation on the international stage. Fraser has also made a name for herself on the international stage as one of Canada’s leading academics regarding truth and reconciliation and its complex relationship with Canada’s first peoples. Fraser is Gwichya Gwich’in, originally from Inuvik and Dachan Choo G??hnjik, Northwest Territories. Crystal, with her family, has lived on Treaty 6 Homeland of the Metis Nation since 2004. She said, “I am from the Northwest Territories and my family’s Fish Camp on the McKenzie River, but

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