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Canada's Apology and Indigneous Peoples Rights
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Much has been going on over the past year or so regarding the Rights of Indigenous Peoples not only here in Canada, but around the world.

We all know about the current Apology to the aboriginal people of Canada for the wrong doing of the residential school process. I know that we must all have our own opinions regarding the Truth and Reconciliation process here in Canada. This issue itself is one of much debate. The truth and reconciliation process involves cash payments to residential school survivors and Federal money allocated to Aboriginal Healing Foundation. However, one area of great importance has been ignored in this process. The Aboriginal Youth of Canada.

Once again we find that the young Aboriginal voices of Canada have been ignored. The Truth and Reconciliation process was negotiated as a final deal, yet there has been nothing set in place to deal with the long term affects that it has had on the younger generations that did not directly go to the residential schools. I am a residential school survivors in the sense that my father, my step father, many aunts, uncles and Aboriginal role models growing up were residential school survivors. Many of them pass away before the apology, before the cash payments, before they were told that what happened to them was not right. I have had family members commit suicide, no doubt brought on by the socio-psychological effects of residential schools, loss of culture and identity.

How can money given to survivors and allocated to one organization fully heal the wounds of the legacy and intergenerational effects of residential schools?

Where do we go from here?

Now is the time that Canada takes serious action and looks into how it continues to breach the human rights of it's Indigenous peoples on a regular basis. We need to look at how Canada is dealing with land rights in British Columbia, Quebec, Northern Ontario, NWT, Yukon and Nunavut. If the words of our Prime Minister are true and we are a Country that truly respects the human rights of Indigenous peoples then now is the time that we all take a step backwards and take a good long look at the true history of our Country.

My great-grandfather was there during treaty negotiations. My grandfather was a child. My father a plucked from his family and stolen and forced to assimilate. No one in my family ever said yes to taking everything from us. No one in my family said they wanted to be assimilated and broken. My family continues to press forward and fight for our rights. My grandfather and my father watch their traplines get smaller and smaller. My mother and father we forcibly removed from traditional lands being considered squatters because Canada wanted to mine the land. Forcibly removed at gun point my the RCMP when my sister was less then two years old, and I was in still in my mothers womb.

You tell me Canada, does the RCMP have the right to go into the homes our your family and hold guns to them and tell them to move because they want to take what is yours for profit?

Where is the justice?

Here is a piece from CBC that I was a part of.

Please share your thoughts.

Mashi Cho,

Eriel Deranger

June 20, 2008 | 11:59 AM Comments  1 comments

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qualandar shakil ahmed
June 28, 2008 | 11:31 AM

Certainly n ot it is unbelievable that it can happen in a developed country!
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