Reconciliation isn’t up to Indigenous folks

It is up to those reconciling the reality that their place in Canada has become what it is by the intentional and invisible acts of squashing Indigenous peoples’ own economic abilities.

Red Sky Performance dancers, pictured Sept. 30, 2019, honouring the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation ceremony at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que. Until the rest of Canada realizes that instability, whether monetary or cultural, is so incredibly experienced by Indigenous individuals, families and governments, reconciliation will continue to be the pipe dream it has appeared to be over the past decade, writes Signa Daum Shanks.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SIGNA DAUM SHANKS

June 22, 2020

What to say about two different concepts that keep coming up separately? As all of us ponder how to think about health and personal finances, we can and must also shift to the way our economic conditions and reconciliation are connected. And, by gum, we need to be honest and also realize that ‘eco...

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