NOW Magazine
For Indigenous Peoples it’s time to look within
It’s time we finally got rid of what isn’t working for us even if that means parting ways with long-
established advocacy organizations or demanding better of our leaders By Pamela Palmater
Excerpted from Warrior Life: Indigenous Resistance & Resurgence (Fernwood Publishing)
a collection of essays by Pamela Palmater.
I wish I didn’t have to write this. I wish I could say that now that Canadians have changed their federal government everything will be okay. But that is not a given. The decade-long reign of terror against First Nations, the environment and democratic rights and freedoms has worn on everyone.