Indigenous leader calls for new reconciliation agreement with the monarchy
Global News
“We need to exercise our own form of government based on our own worldview, philosophies, traditions and values of the nations.”
One of the leading experts on treaty rights and First Nations governance in Canada says the queen’s passing marks an opportunity to improve the relationship between the Crown and Indigenous people in Canada.
Sol Sanderson, 80, is the former chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations and has spent nearly 65 years fighting to dismantle what he calls the colonial suppression of Indigenous self governance in Canada.
“We need to exercise our own form of government based on our own worldview, philosophies, traditions and values of the nations.”
He was also born in James Smith Cree Nation and claims the knife attack that resulted in one of the worst mass killings in Canada’s history is partly rooted in the British royal family’s colonizing powers, making the vicious and senseless acts of violence, entirely predictable.
“There’s still a lot of shock in the families and a lot of people there who are hurt… the sad thing for me is, I’ve been warning about this type of thing going to happen for years,” Sanderson told Global News when returning to his Saskatoon home after spending time this week supporting grieving members of the community.
The horrific mass stabbings that left 10 people murdered and another 18 injured, shocked people around the world.
“Suicides, mental, physical and emotional abuse, all kinds of addictions… there’s about 4.5 pages of symptoms that you can identify today that are affecting us as a result of losing total control, losing our way of life,
because we’ve been under suppression of the empire and colonial policies for 500 years,” he said.
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