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This copy is for your personal non-commercial use only. Aanii Christine nitiishinikaas. Peguis nitoonci. Mashkedebejiki ni totem. Hello, my name is Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith. I am from Peguis First Nation and Buffalo is my clan. When I was approached to write a piece on Canada Day and how it looks from an Indigenous perspective, my mind began to spin with what I could write without offending anyone.
This silence has hurt Indigenous people all over Turtle Island and beyond. Canada Day is a contentious holiday. It serves as a stark reminder of the day that our land was not taken away, but stolen. It also reminds Indigenous people of colonization and the assimilationist policies that have been put into place to effectively eradicate us as a people. When Europeans first arrived on Turtle Island, Indigenous people were seen as beneficial because we helped settlers survive.
But over time, we were pushed aside. Not only because of the fur trade decline, but also because military threat subsided. Indigenous people began to be seen as threats on our own land. Not only were we were pushed off onto tracts of unfarmable land reserves so that settlers could move in and essentially take over, but a pass system was put into place to limit our movements, and rations that consisted of flour, water, sugar and salt, left many Indigenous people starving and more susceptible to illness.
First Nations are one of the highest minority groups in society to suffer from diabetes. This is in part because of the high cost of foods and lack of food security.
Many laws were put into place that saw us be made Crowns of the Canadian government. We are the only group in Canada who are legislated to carry a status card. We also had our ceremonies banned, traditions taken away and were prohibited to speak our languages. Not long afterwards, thousands of children were taken from their families and communities and placed into residential schools where many suffered emotional, physical, sexual and mental abuse.
The last residential school closed in Another forced removal of children that took place was known as the Sixties Scoop. I was a product of the Sixties Scoop; my two biological sisters and two brothers were also. My biological mother was a survivor of both of these enforced removals. I cannot even begin to imagine the pain that ni mama my mom went through, and the thousands of other survivors who like my ni mama pan are no longer with us and have gone onto the spiritual realm.
As an Indigenous woman, who has survived the Sixties Scoop, a failed interracial adoption, and is a survivor of not only the foster care system, but the mental health system, I cannot personally celebrate a country that since its inception has been based on incomprehensible policies that have attempted to not only eradicate my own identity, but the identity of many Indigenous people all over. I ask those who read this, to try and read with an open mind.
Be open to understanding the pain that many Indigenous people have endured. Despite this pain, we are still here continuing to fight for a better future for the generations coming up after us. If some people can relate to this, that is great. If they do not, I gently suggest taking the time to learn the true history of Canada, and why Canada Day is such a contentious day, and try to understand why it is not a day that many Indigenous people want to celebrate.
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