During the trip, the delegates spend three busy weeks learning about minorities and working-class people in China.
During the trip, which the Canada-China Friendship Society and China sponsor, the delegates visit various factories and the Institute of National Minorities.
Unlike other delegations, this trip is not Indigenous-led. However, this trip reflects meaningful Indigenous-Pacific connections during the 1970s
I think that the Chinese people are masters over their own destiny… The people are the leaders of that country. I think they have proven that time and time again.
– ‘On China’ with Rod Bishop
Image source: p.9 of New Breed, volume 8, 1973.