Understanding we are a multitude of First Nations is key to reconciliation – Rabble.ca

August 2, 2022

How can there be one approach or one solution to reconciliation when there are a multitude of First Nations?

Spending the last few days arguing and responding to people who do not understand that all First Nation Indigenous are not the same has been energy sapping. One non-native person wrote on my social media platform that “Could all the matriarchs, patriarchs, elders and whoever just get together and have one definitive stance?”

There can only be one stance if the mainstream believes in the outdated textbook definition of the Indians. They then believe the Indians roamed all over North America savagely fighting one another and not knowing the worth of the land. Can we move on from this doctrine of discovery definition? Apparently not.

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