av Myran Macson 1 år siden
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Canadian politician
“I think when you’re trying to fix 150 years of colonization, I think there’s a lot of pent up anger, need that’s been ignored for far too long, and I think when people start responding and say, ‘We’re here; we want to work together,’ but you’re so used to having to be resistant, to have to be angry, that it’s very difficult to move into a new mode of thinking sometimes.”
“They’re still fighting for justice. They’re still sitting here today…and they have not had justice and many of those survivors have passed away,”
“The settlement is about giving our nations the support they need to pick up the broken pieces, to start healing our communities.”
"It"s what needs to be done... It can meet the holes that have been left in our education system for so long. It is nice that we have this opportunity for more learning, particularly around Indigenous issues and Canada's history."
“I believe each group within Canada has a different responsibility for reconciliation. For Indigenous people, our responsibility is to ourselves and to others within our communities: learning or passing on our language and culture that was attacked only one generation ago.