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John Fischer

@jackcfish

Cree from Cowessess First Nation working as the Interim AVP, Indigenization and Decolonization, Mount Royal University

 Calgary, Canada
Joined April 2009
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Cherokee Nation Principal Chief @ChuckHoskin_Jr issues a statement on President Biden granting clemency to Leonard Peltier. #Justice #NativeRights
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“It’s finally over – I’m going home" #LeonardPeltier “I want to show the world I’m a good person with a good heart I want to help the people,just like my grandmother taught me.” #LeonardPeltier #INDIGENOUS #TAIRP
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In Ojibwe our word for thanks is miigwech. Music by the American Indian Movement.
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Clemency for Leonard Peltier!
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🚨BREAKING🚨  Leonard Peltier Granted Executive Clemency After 50 years of unjust incarceration and the tireless efforts of intergenerational grassroots organizing and advocacy, our elder and relative Leonard Peltier has been granted executive clemency.
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@CBCNews24 Nov 2024
Getting the Canadian government to apologize for its role in the mass killing of Nunavik sled dogs has been a 25-year-long mission for Pita Aatami, the president of Makivvik Corporation, which represents Inuit in Nunavik. cbc.ca/news/canada/north/ste…
For some in Nunavik, federal apology for dog slaughter is a step toward reconciliation | CBC News

For some in Nunavik, federal apology for dog slaughter is a step toward reconciliation | CBC News

Inuit spoke about how much they depended on their sled dogs, and how much they lost when over 1,000 dogs were slaughtered by police in the 1950s and 1960s. For some, a formal apology from the...

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Crown-Indigenous Affairs Minister Gary Anandasangaree delivered an apology in Kangiqsujuaq, Que. accepting responsibility for the horrific slaughter of over a 1,000 Inuit sled dogs in the 1950's and 1960's. Proving once and for all, the Fed are cat people.
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@APTNNews25 Nov 2024
In the 1950s and ‘60s, the RCMP and Quebec police killed around 1,000 sled dogs in Nunavik to forcibly assimilate the Inuit. On Saturday, the federal government apologized.
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A lasting legacy of PM Justin Trudeau’s govt should be the establishment of a 20-year Indigenous led investigative commission looking into the deaths of children at Indian Residential Schools, one of the 42 obligations in ⁦@OSI_BIS⁩ final report. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
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The time is now for truth, justice, and healing for Survivors of Indian boarding schools. Take action to support S.1723/H.R. 7227: The Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding Schools. "To the children who never returned from the Indian boarding schools: we remember you. – at Cyprus
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On Red Shawl Day, we honor our relatives lost to the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples, an emergency which impacts Native people across our country. I'm proud of our work with Tribes and survivors to build the solutions we need.
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🚨Red Shawl Day Today, we honor the lives and families of #MMIP. The red shawl symbolizes strength, resilience, and the voices of those we've lost. It serves as a visible reminder of the ongoing crisis affecting Indigenous communities across Turtle Island. #NativeTwitter
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Today, on #RedShawlDay, we honor the lives of Missing & Murdered Indigenous Peoples (MMIP). American Indians and Alaska Natives are 2.5 times as likely to experience violent crimes. Demand justice & support healing! Download our MMIP guide: loom.ly/g3bCQ7g
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President Biden’s apology is an important first step, but it must be followed with action. #NativeBoardingSchools #IndianBoardingSchools #TruthAndHealing
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"Quite frankly, Native American history is American history, so it's important for the survivors and the descendants, I believe, to feel that they are seen." #NativeBoardingSchools yahoo.com/news/interior-secr…

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland applauds Biden apology for Indigenous boarding schools

For more than a century, from the early 1800s to the 1960s, Indigenous children were taken from their tribes -- sometimes forcibly from their homes -- to attend government assimilation boarding...

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These are photographs of #IndianBoardingSchools attended by Cherokee children. Today, @POTUS formally apologized for the United States’ long history of #BoardingSchools & the impact still felt by boarding school-era policies. Wado, President Biden, for this long-overdue apology.
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@cspan25 Oct 2024
President Biden on treatment of Native Americans in Federal Indian Boarding Schools: "The federal government has never apologized for what happened, until today. I formally apologize as President of the United States for what we did. I formally apologize and it's long overdue."
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.@SecDebHaaland on the resiliency of Tribal communities across the country as they rebuild from the devastation caused by residential boarding schools: "It failed to annihilate our languages, our traditions, our life ways. It failed to destroy us because we persevered."
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Biden's apology is just the beginning. Truth is, there were over 523 government-funded & church-run Native American boarding schools. It's time to confront the past & demand justice for the present. Use this map to learn how your community was impacted. nctr.ca/records/view-your-re…

Interactive Map

Use our Interactive Archival Map to search for public archive material by specific residential schools, events or hearings.

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No matter the politics of it all, the apology from the President of the United States to Indian Boarding School survivors and families happened. It’s the first step towards reckoning with the truths and atrocities of the American Genocide aimed at children & opens the healing path for the First Peoples of the land. For many survivors I know, this was all they asked for…
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So honoured to be here with the incredible @CaringSociety team of Jennifer King, Sarah Clarke (legal counsel) and Stephanie Wellman🧡 Honouring all children from all Nations who deserve to be loved and protected from Canada’s discrimination now and forever🧡
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