By Nicolas Crier, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Megaphone Magazine I was adopted. My non-Indigenous family, all good people who treated me with respect and dignity, did not raise me on the reserve, but in the urbanized city of Calgary, Alberta. It’s the same province that the graphic novelThe Rez Doctor takes place in. But unlike its central character — young Ryan Fox — I didn’t grow up facing the realities of reserve life. I was sheltered. I didn’t have to navigate the racism, segregation and systemic barriers baked into on-reserve health care. I don’t know what it means to leave a reserve and enter the very system that’s historically excluded your people, and then fight tooth and nail just to build a life within in — as Ryan Fox had…
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