Over the past few days, with the news coming out of Attawapiskat, I’ve heard a few people comment that Indigenous people should leave the reserve and go closer to the cities where they would have better access to employment, health services and so forth. I wanted to react every time but I was too emotional to put things into words. But the article linked to above helped me formulate some of my thoughts.
Leaving the reserves won’t fix things
13 Wednesday Apr 2016