Indigenous resistance doesn’t begin or end at the Canada-U.S. border – Broadview Magazine

Jun. 20, 2025

As Canadians react to cross-border tensions, many Indigenous communities stay focused on more systemic struggles

While Canadians adjust to a new federal government, we are also dealing with a trade war and threats of annexation from the United States. Based on my circle of Indigenous communities, I suspect families and leaders across this country are not so focused on the chaos that U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments have wrought as they are on attending to the immediate legacy of colonialism, including pressing needs such as access to healthcare and clean water.

Canada itself is an ongoing colonial project and we have much work to do. At the release of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation report, the late Senator Murray Sinclair said,“We have described for you a mountain, we have shown you the path to the top. We call upon you to do the climbing.” Words have been spoken and reports have been published that redress the legacy of Indian Residential Schools, which were only one aspect of Canada’s colonization effort.

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