Let’s talk sovereignty: how Canada can help stop lingering colonial attitudes towards Indigenous peoples

The historical racially based piecemeal approach to change in the relationship with Indigenous peoples needs a big rethink.

Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations Carolyn Bennett announces Dec. 14 that Grand Chief Wilton Littlechild, right, will be chair of the interim board of directors working to establish a National Council for Reconciliation. Words like reconciliation are being used a lot in national discussions involving Indigenous peoples, writes Gar Pardy, while thornier terms like sovereignty lurk in the background.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY GAR PARDY

April 5, 2018

OTTAWA—The value-laden words of truth, apology, reconciliation, compensation, and nation are all being used repeatedly in the national exchanges involving Indigenous peoples. Lurking in the background are the larger words of sovereignty, self-determination, self-government, and possibly, independ...

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