‘This requires a dialogue that is grounded in opening up’

By Aastha Sethi, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Cabin Radio Métis scholar Kristy McLeod and Orange Shirt Day founder Phyllis Webstad have co-authored a book, Decolonization and Me, which is set to be released on September 1. McLeod, born and raised in Victoria, British Columbia, said she did not know much about Métis culture growing up and only began to become familiar with it as an adult – eventually pursuing a PhD focused on it. Many of her relatives are non-Indigenous. “I was really close with my maternal extended family and on that side of the family, I was the only child that did not have blonde hair and was not fair-skinned. That certainly raised a lot of questions for me,” she told Cabin Radio. “I had memories I’d suppressed during…

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