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Sandlanee Gid says the hope for her is seeing non-Indigenous people get educated. Organizations like Reconciliation Canada and UBC's reconciliation course have bolstered more dialogue about Indigenous people historically and today. Others say they lack sufficient resources.Ī task force also formed looking at the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in prison.

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Some teachers say they are at a loss on how to teach Indigenous content. has seen changes in elementary and secondary school curriculum to include more education about Indigenous people, but there have been bumps along the way. She said inequality also remains in areas that are provincial responsibilities, such as the high rates of Indigenous kids in foster care in B.C., access to education and overrepresentation of Indigenous people in prison.ī.C.

People should go and educate themselves and learn the truth,' Mills said. 'I just don't want to talk about the stereotypes anymore. (Joanne Mills)īut she says the conversations remain basic. Joanne Mills says before reconciliation in Canada can happen, Canadians need to educate themselves and there must be more equality for Indigenous people. ' is more about the acknowledgement that there were wrongs, but there isn't a lot of action attached to it,' Mills said. She is the executive director of the Fraser Region Aboriginal Friendship Centre in Surrey. Joanne Mills is also concerned about overuse of the word. What's needed first, Sandlanee Gid and others argue, is a process of conciliation - which the Oxford dictionary describes as 'the action of mediating between two disputing people or groups' - before reconciliation can occur. She also said many Indigenous people don't have access to basic human rights like clean drinking water, safety and education, which other Canadians enjoy, arguing this is evidence that there is not a positive relationship to this day. She pointed to the more than 250 Canadian court cases that Indigenous people have won - something lawyer and author Bill Gallagher has outlined in his book Resource Reckoning to be released later this year. Sandlanee Gid dancing and throwing rocks in the chasm where the Chief IIdansuu's Jim Hart's Reconciliation Pole would go, at UBC.

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