‘We are Indigenous’: NCC vows to fight back against MUN’s Indigenous verification policy draft, saying it’s “designed to exclude NunatuKavut Inuit”

By Anasophie Vallee, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Telegram Memorial University released a draft of the Indigenous verification policy earlier this month for public consultation with the university community, but it isn’t sitting well with the NunatuKavut Community Council (NCC). The NCC is calling out the university for putting forth a policy draft that is a “huge failure in Indigenous reconciliation,” saying it is “designed to exclude NunatuKavut Inuit.” When the policy was still in development, NCC President Todd Russell received a call from Memorial’s vice president of Indigenous affairs two years ago informing him that the university would undertake a consultation process with Indigenous groups in the province regarding a verification policy. The problem? “I have never received a worse call than that call on April the 11th, 2023,…

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