The recent brutal terror attack on Israel and Israel’s ongoing military strikes in Gaza are, of course, global news, and people are rightly paying attention. But there is an important element to this story that has real bearing on the lives of North Americans. I am deeply concerned about the increasingly casual and widespread use — I’d say “misuse” — of the term "decolonization" in relation to new war. As a '60s Scoop Indigenous woman from Canada, "decolonization" for me as a term has meant the profound struggles of Indigenous peoples to reclaim our rights, lands, resources and heritage. Its use in the context of the recent Middle Eastern atrocities by Hamas is deeply inappropriate and hurtful and indeed even damaging to Indigenous people in North America ... CLICK HERE to read the full commentary
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