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Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action

Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action

By Katarina Ziervogel It has been 4 years since Canada first released its Truth and Reconciliation Commission report that includes a list of 94 calls to action, and to strengthen a strained relationship between Canada and Indigenous people. The government of Canada has made several unfulfilled promises in attempt to redeem themselves for the damage and pain they have caused to Indigenous people. The report itself was promised to be momentous for Indigenous people, but in the last four years it shows we are still a long way from achieving a better relationship, and peace for all. One of the examples is evidence that there are things that needed to be done in the event of the TRC’s report. Senator Lynn Beyak’s comment on the TRC’s report with regard to residential schools was historically inaccurate. It is eerily similar to…

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First Nation-Owned Loans

First Nation-Owned Loans

By Katarina Ziervogel LouAnn Solway, is a 47-year old Indigenous woman who was born and raised on a cattle farm on the Siksika Nation near Calgary in Alberta. With a lifetime of experience growing up on a farm, which may be difficult to leave. For Solway, she found it in herself to continue the family legacy onto the next generation but found herself in a difficult situation as she was turned down by several banks for her loan to continue the business. Thankfully, Indian Business Corporation—a successful First Nations-owned company that specializes in granting loans to Indigenous people who are unable to receive loans from other banks. Solway was able to fully grow her business, and continue the family legacy of her own. It is not easy for Indigenous peoples to find a bank where their needs can be met…

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Changing the Perceptions of ‘the North’

Changing the Perceptions of ‘the North’

By Katarina Ziervogel In the Northern regions of Canada, such as the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, a place where the sun does not set beneath the horizon for twenty-one hours a day during the summertime each year. In wintertime, the sun sets within four hours hence the shortest winter days. It is often a belief among people who have yet to visit the North that it is an extremely cold, deserted place with no green in sight. The prices in the stores appear to be more expensive than regular prices in the south, and there is absolutely nothing to do up in the North which makes all of it sound like a miserable, depressing place to live. Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, is a performance artist and an Inuk whose true home lies in the North. Bathory’s desire is to change the…

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What is Cultural Genocide?

What is Cultural Genocide?

By Katarina Ziervogel In the 19th century on the very same land European settlers arrived on many years before, the Canadian government made an inimical decision that would forever change the lives of Indigenous peoples. The government set up an “education system” in which they removed Indigenous children away from the First Nations reserves, away from their home, and away from their own family to be ‘educated’ in residential schools and to be assimilated into mainstream society, where the settlers resided. At the time, it was an attempt at erasing the Indigenous people’s heritage, traditions and language starting with the children. Canada’s first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald’s initiative for the final result of residential schools was to “take the Indian out of the child” an infamous quote linked to the history of residential schools. Meanwhile, the First Nations…

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The Game

The Game

By Katarina Ziervogel Human trafficking is an underground, illegal industry that runs right under our nose in Canada. Often, teen girls and young women fall victim to human trafficking and unfortunately, it is far more common than you think. “Pimp boyfriends” is a tactic where a good-looking man seeks out vulnerable, naïve girls and lures them in with false promises of true love, a house, and a good future. The “pimp boyfriends” tactic has pulled many victims into human trafficking. Some have survived in and out of the industry and have lived to tell the tale, which is further evidence to the police that there is a problem in the country that needs to be investigated and as a warning to all other young girls and women of the dangers that lay out there. For more information about the stages…

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