Alongside the rallies for the Black Lives Matter movement, support for Indigenous lives in Canada have come to the forefront. Two police shootings of Indigenous people in New Brunswick and the emergence of a video of an arrest with force of an Alberta chief have underscored the plight faced by Indigenous peoples.

On this episode of This Is Why, we hear about past and present systemic racism forced upon Indigenous peoples from the chief of a First Nation in Alberta and the current director of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.

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Guests:

Siksika Nation Chief Ouray Crowfoot

Ry Moran, director of the National Center for Truth and Reconciliation

More resources:

"The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America" by Thomas King