CCPA Monitor: What would a world respecting Indigenous rights look like?

Karyn Pugliese, member of Pikwakanagan First Nation, is a seasoned journalist best known for hard-hitting reporting at the National Observer, Canadaland, and APTN. So it’s refreshing to hear her delighted cackle as she unpacks some of the absurdities that are baked into Canadian law.

In Canada’s historical narrative of the march from British colony to nation,, says Pugliese, “First Nations are there when it’s part of the Nation building, like the fur trade. And then we disappear until 1982, when all of the sudden we show up asking for our rights.”

In Canada, we have a convenient tendency to skip over the “truth” part in our haste to reconcile, already. However, we can’t repair our relationships until we understand the beliefs and systems that got us here—biases that continue to prevent healing and progress.

Read the whole piece: https://monitormag.ca/articles/what-would-it-look-like-if-canada-respected-indigenous-rights/