What the TRC compiled was a record of a system designed to forcibly assimilate Indigenous children, including at least 3,200 who died there. Sinclair, who passed away last November, maintained that ...
Even at its most reconciliatory, Canada engages in Land Back initiatives selectively: only in instances where the political and economic stakes remain relatively low and it can purchase some public ...
Today, there are more Indigenous children in care than there were at the height of the residential school system. This is a momentous problem, especially in a time where so many in Canadian society ...
First, as Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson notes, they “reproduce and amplify” Indigeneity, the definitive characteristics of Indigenous peoples and culture, diverse as they ...
I n my forties, I decided to run for public office. We built an amazing team over two years with a hard-core grassroots campaign. Our motto was “Run Like a Girl.” And I won. I was appointed minister ...
I s it possible for Indigenous nations to define their own priorities within the very same economy built on their oppression ...
On December 15, 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presented its Final Report on the impacts of residential schools, just eighteen years after the last institution closed its doors. What ...
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Eva Jewell, from Deshkan Ziibiing (Chippewas of the Thames First Nation), is an associate professor at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Michelle Good, a member of Red Pheasant Cree Nation, is the author of Five Little Indians and Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada.
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