Thread by @sunnshiiny

I think it’s appropriate to send this out again. With some information that I researched and compiled in 2019.

https://twitter.com/sunnshiiny/status/1408188321625370625

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There’s a reason I don’t trust JWR. There’s a reason I have several issues with her veracity and portrayal as the victim of LPC racism and misogyny.

It’s not because I’m some partisan hack. It’s not that I support the Liberals unquestioningly.

I support their mandate.

I support reconciliation. And no other political party supports Inuit, Métis and Non status FN reconciliation but the Liberals.

All other political parties who support reconciliation focus exclusively on First Nations. A subgroup of First Nations.

My community needs healing too. I’m Métis. My community has been denied treaty rights for most of the last 150 years.

95% of federal funding has been towards the support of FN.

Métis received very little federal support for community healing, but we endure 100% of the racism.

I don’t detract from FN issues and oppression. I support the FN community to address abuse, genocide and violence enacted on FN people. My wish is that Métis receive the same support as they expect from our community.

We have our own story, our own injustices and grievances and our own idea of what reconciliation means. It doesn’t involve breaking up the nation to hand out resource ownership to a sub group of FN with treaty and band status.

Most don’t realize that Métis had no earmarked ongoing federal funding until treaty status was extended to Métis by the Supreme Court of Canada in 2016. Treaty status was also extended to non status FN who have also been denied federal recognition for 150 years.

That’s five years ago. For the rest of the time non status FN and Métis had no recognition but most of the same racism experienced by off reserve status FN.

globalnews.ca/news/2639115/s…

Like I’ve said several times before, Canadians are basically completely unaware of indigenous issues in Canada.

I’ve tried to educate through threads and discussions. But how many who regularly read my threads knew Métis were provided status under the LPC government in 2016?

How many know Métis communities finally qualify for federal funding for labour force initiatives, education and community healing since the Métis Nation signed the Métis Accord with the Crown in 2017?

pm.gc.ca/en/canada-meti…

How many know the Métis are about 1/3 of all indigenous people in Canada? But until the Accord was signed received at most 2% of federal funding to be shared with all off reserve FN.

We were abandoned by our federal government. Left to fend for ourselves.

How many know non status First Nations who didn’t have treaty status until 2016 receive no support or acceptance from on reserve FN. or qualify for any funding for labour force participation or education? They are 25% of all FN in Canada.

Indigenous politics is rife with competition for funding, identity politics and recognition from the federal government.

Until 2017 roughly 700K indigenous people were just ignored by the federal government.

LPC is the first government that has acknowledged that 700K people.

They didn’t have to sign Accords with non status and Métis. They could have forced those indigenous peoples to go back to court to fight for resources.

But they didn’t.

They included all indigenous people in reconciliation efforts.

A small subgroup of radical FN who want all federal funding, power and resources to remain with First Nations community and the exclusive right to access, benefit from and control those resources derailed the LPC efforts to develop an indigenous framework in 2018.

That was under the guise of “self governance” and “Nation to Nation” concerns voiced by a sub group of radical FN. They also eliminated the effort to sign modern treaties with FN to replace the Indian Act.

JWR is one of those radical FN people who assisted to derail the reconciliation of Canada’s indigenous people.

All opposition parties have partnered with this radical faction to support UNDRIP and that’s who is speaking for all indigenous people in MSM and indigenous media.

That’s Pam Palmater, Russ Diabo, Terrence Tailfeathers, Cindy Blackstock and several others.

Canadians are blissfully unaware of indigenous infighting and political sabotage that’s been conducted between indigenous communities for decades.

It’s time people educated themselves and learn about the various indigenous peoples, and the various injustices that each has endured.

I’m happy to focus on Residential School abuse at the moment. But that’s a small part of the indigenous experience.

Reconciliation should be open to all indigenous people. I have no need to access funding for labour force participation, education or healing. I worked my ass off and used my fair skin to gain that independently.

But I have plenty of family members who don’t have my privileges.

I take it personally when people provide JWR the benefit of the doubt and ignore criticism from other indigenous people who are more informed, more knowledgeable about the history and have more integrity in their pinky finger than JWR. And I’m not speaking about me.

I am by far not the only indigenous person who has observed inconsistencies in behaviour and stated values.

Don’t listen to me. I’m one person out of many and created privilege with my hard work and fair skin.

Listen to the people who would be impacted by the restriction of federal recognition to participate in reconciliation to First Nations on reserve.

There are about 700,000 of them being drowned out by a radical wing of libertarian FN.

@threadreaderapp please compile.