Thread by @cvpedri

1/9 This ordeal has been so personal and emotional for me and my family. Can you imagine moving to a new city, being introduced to “an Elder from your home territory” who is this man? Can you...cbc.ca/news/canada/ot…

2/9 Imagine realizing quickly that this man was not Ojibwe but was a non-native man appropriating your language, your art, your family’s stories of intergenerational trauma related to IRS and the Sixties Scoop? Can you imagine the years of work my family & other families...

3/9 have had to commit to to quite literally piece themselves back together after decades of settler colonial brutality aimed at breaking our family/kinship ties and our connection to our homelands?...

4/9 This is an IRS survivor from Treaty 3, my late choomish toussant Shebobman-baa who attended St Joe’s IRS until he was 16 years of age...

5/9 This is a Sixties Scoop Survivor, nin maamaa Marcia ❤️...

6/9 Can you imagine what each day feels like when all these organizations claiming to support #trc and advance #indigeneity in the city you moved your family continue to uphold this white man from across the lake where your family is from?...

7/9 Our stories are sacred because without our truths, there is no healing for us. They are our medicine. This is what I have learned through my life...

8/9 The question all folks should be asking is who is accountable for this? What structures and processes (and the people in charge of them) make it possible for a white non-native man from Atikokan to be elevated to an IRS and Sixties...

9/9 Stop waiting and watching. Start upholding our truths and holding your own people accountable. Meeya. #truthandreconciliation #onpoli #academictwitter #nativetwitter #cdnpoli #indigenous

Can u imagine that even after this story is out, there will still be people who try to tell me that he is likely just a confused unwell man with good intentions? Can u imagine that I will have ppl still telling me and ppl from my Nation that he is still ojibwe?