The roads to colonization were long and Indigenous people paid the price – brantnews.com
The Friends and Neighbours lecture series comes back this Wednesday with a screening of Colonization Roads
Sep 25, 2017
Making sure everyone enjoys equity and equality is a hard-fought battle.
The Friends and Neighbours of the Save the Evidence Campaign are trying to help people learn about Indigenous struggles both historical and current, to help them start an introspective journey of decolonization.
Rob Knechtel, vice-chair of Friends and Neighbours, said the group started out trying to raise funds for the Woodland Cultural Centre’s Save the Evidence campaign to renovate the former residential school, but are now doing that and trying to educate people to try to reconcile and to stop seeing the problem solely as a government problem.
“I think we all carry historical, cultural, and ideological assumptions about each other that certainly do need reassessing from time to time. Canadian history with Indigenous people has certainly been one that needs to be redefined significantly,” he said. “It’s something we often think the government and courts need to do, but it’s equally important and something each of us individuals have to do at a level individuals can only do.”
