Keeping this short and sweet, friends. I've been spending the last week MOVING and totally overshot my capabilities for getting this newsletter out on Friday/Saturday. But midweek, I managed to interview Dr. Kim Tallbear, the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate professor and all around badass, about the similarities and differences when it comes to
Indigenous affairs in Canada versus the U.S.
I don't know if you followed, but last Monday, June 21, marked Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada and I have to say, my mind was a little blown when I realized how on board the Canadian government is about commemorating this special day and, for that matter, Indigenous Peoples Month which is all of June.
Check out the Canadian government's website for an insane list of interactive resources about First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples - and as you browse,
consider the immense void of anything like that here in the United States. Then ask yourself why?
Dr. Tallbear and I had a rich conversation premised around that one question. Read our interview where we discuss Treaty People, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland's boarding school investigation, and militant Natives.