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Astronomical housing prices, the crisis of the middle class, right-to-roam campaigns, foreign ownership and vaccination chaos for travelling Canadians were…
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They described being taken away from their homes in Kitamaat Village, and how their Haisla culture was banned, no longer part of their childhoods or education.
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I was angry when I heard these stories. It still upsets me to think about it. It wasnât right. It wasnât fair.
Hearing the stories from Kamloops and now Saskatchewan about hundreds of unmarked graves at the sites of former residential schools brings back a lot of the stories I read and that I was told about abuse, unhappiness, and wrenching family separation.
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Who, ultimately, possesses the land?
That is a question at the root of the territorial acknowledgments that have become pervasive across Canada, a sombre public rite.
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But it’s not only non-Indigenous Canadians who undergo conflicted feelings, whether gratitude, guilt or consternation, when politicians, school principals and others open a gathering by acknowledging they’re on the “unceded traditional territory” of the Wet’suwet’en, Algonquin, Musqueam or other First Nation.