Nora Bernard

Nora BernardONS (September 22, 1935 – December 26, 2007) was a Canadian Mi'kmaqactivist who sought compensation for survivors of the Canadian Indian residential school system. She was directly responsible for what became the largest class-action lawsuit in Canadian history, representing an estimated 79,000 survivors; the Canadian governmentsettled the lawsuit in 2005 for more than C$5 billion.