MMIW commissioners reconcile Canada Day with their genocide finding – National Post
WINNIPEG — When Michele Audette was growing up, Canada Day was not a celebration.
It left her feeling bitter.
The daughter of a Quebecois father and an Innu mother, Audette didn’t see herself in the school curriculum.
She didn’t see a recognition of Indigenous populations that existed for thousands of years in many of the places she lived.
But she was also conflicted.
When First Nations, Metis and Inuit dancers took the stage there would be a feeling of pride, she says, even if it was only fleeting.
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