A woman’s decades-long quest for recognition as an Indian ended in victory Thursday, when Ontario’s top court ruled she should be granted status, something the federal government had steadfastly denied her because she didn’t know who her paternal grandfather was.
Do they really want to just put the “reconcile” into reconciliations: to have us just accept the status quo?
” How do we reconcile a genocidal past and present that is not acknowledged as the root cause of the problem? When you start to look at it this way, it begins to become contradictory. The solution is self-determination and to implement the Peace and Friendship Treaties. We know what is best for us and our future generations. Indigenous nations and peoples also know what is best for our Mother Earth. “
“In the late 1800’s an American merchant ship, John Bright, crashed on the rocks of Friendly Cove. There were no survivors. The Chief of Hesquiaht Tribe, John Anietsachist buried the dead but word got back to Victoria that the Natives killed the survivors of the John Bright. Anietsachist and Katkinna faced an inquest conducted by the HMS Sparrowhawk and were ordered to be hanged. Anietsachist and Katkinna were taken to the gallows and hanged in front of their Hesquiaht Tribe.”
Now the Province is apologizing for that historical injustice:
Residential Schools – and the TRC
Wab Kinew – The 5 Things We Need to Stop Saying About Aboriginal People
Read The Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report