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Daniela Germano
From left to right, Christina Hardie, Robert Houle, Roxanne Tootoosis, Lynda Minoose, Noella Steinhauer, Lillian Gadwa, Terri Suntjens, Theresa Strawberry, Edna Elias and Beatrice Morin are shown in this undated handout image.
Image Credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Curtis Cameron MANDATORY CREDIT December 26, 2020 - 8:00 PM EDMONTON - To Terri Suntjens, symbolism means everything. That s why she decided to get involved with the City of Edmonton s initiative to rename its wards.Suntjens, who is from the Saddle Lake Cree Nation, became a co-chair of the Indigenous Naming Committee. Our elders talk to us about how symbolism is so important, says Suntjens, who is also director of Indigenous initiatives at Edmonton s MacEwan University.
Winnipeg Free Press By: Daniela Germano, The Canadian Press Posted:
EDMONTON - To Terri Suntjens, symbolism means everything.
From left to right, Christina Hardie, Robert Houle, Roxanne Tootoosis, Lynda Minoose, Noella Steinhauer, Lillian Gadwa, Terri Suntjens, Theresa Strawberry, Edna Elias and Beatrice Morin are shown in this undated handout image. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Curtis Cameron MANDATORY CREDIT
EDMONTON - To Terri Suntjens, symbolism means everything.
That s why she decided to get involved with the City of Edmonton s initiative to rename its wards.Suntjens, who is from the Saddle Lake Cree Nation, became a co-chair of the Indigenous Naming Committee. Our elders talk to us about how symbolism is so important, says Suntjens, who is also director of Indigenous initiatives at Edmonton s MacEwan University.
Year Ahead 2021
Burying Sir John A. Macdonald
The first prime minister will no longer be put on a pedestal as the debate turns to what to put up in his place
December 18, 2020 The head of a statue of Sir John A. MacDonald in Montreal, in August 2020 (Graham Hughes/CP)
Mi’kmaq historian Daniel Paul believes that Sir John A. Macdonald’s days in the sun are numbered.
Paul, 81, is the author of
We Were Not the Savages, a landmark 1993 book that for the first time told the history of Atlantic Canada from the Mi’kmaq perspective.
In the 1980s, Paul brought to light scalp proclamations issued by Nova Scotia governor Edward Cornwallis in the 1750s, offering a bounty for Indigenous heads. Thanks largely to Paul’s work, in 2018, Halifax took down Cornwallis’s statue and renamed a street and a park. This year, the Canadian Coast Guard took his name off a ship. Cornwallis has been cancelled.