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Valley of the Birdtail authors looking to shift attitudes, conversations, around Indigenous reconciliation

‘That’s where the work has to be done: it’s shifting our attitudes, before we’re going to shift the policies,’ says co-author Douglas Sanderson.
University of Toronto law professor Douglas Sanderson, left, and his former law student and ex-federal staffer Andrew Stobo Sniderman, right, are co-authors of the upcoming book, Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation.
After working in the partisan trenches of Parliament Hill and Queen’s Park, the co-authors of an upcoming book exploring how neighbouring communities in Manitoba—a settler town and a First Nations reserve—founded two years apart became unequal are hoping to shift attitudes, and the conversatio...

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