Children I: Official Government and Canada Website

children i: As a white settler enjoying life on stolen lands and broken promises, I'm unable to join in this celebration.I don't remember learning much about First Nations, Inuit or Metis peoples at school, according to Rabble. I know for a fact, I learned absolutely nothing about treaties, the Indian Act or residential schools. The official government of Canada website encourages Canadians to celebrate all that makes us who we are as a country. In fact, it was as an adult that I realized at least four children I went to school with and called friends were First Nations children who had been taken from their families of origin as part of the Sixties Scoop. Once the scales tipped in favour of commodities, Indigenous lives became expendable. Indigenous nations were of benefit to explorers and settlers until their usefulness was dwarfed by valuable resources the land and waterways held. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.