By\u00a0 Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Energeticcity.ca FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. \u2014 As he stood speaking to the crowd gathered at Fort St. John\u2019s Festival Plaza, John Lambert spoke candidly about being a young boy in Oliver, B.C. and his introduction to domestic violence. \u201cI can remember my father chasing my mother down the stairs,\u201d said Lambert, \u00a0an Indigenous man whose band roots are near Fort St. James. \u201cI still remember her running down the stairs, screaming, running into the street, calling for the police to be called. They were, and Dad was subsequently arrested.\u201d \u201cThe majority of assaults against women today are done by First Nations people, by our own people. Now ask: how did we get here? How did we go from a culture that didn\u2019t even hit our… <\/p>\n
By\u00a0 Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Energeticcity.ca FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. \u2014 As he stood speaking to the crowd gathered at Fort St. John\u2019s Festival Plaza, John Lambert spoke candidly about being a young boy in Oliver, B.C. and his introduction to domestic violence. \u201cI can remember my father chasing my mother down the stairs,\u201d said Lambert, \u00a0an Indigenous man whose band roots are near Fort St. James. \u201cI still remember her running down the stairs, screaming, running into the street, calling for the police to be called. They were, and Dad was subsequently arrested.\u201d \u201cThe majority of assaults against women today are done by First Nations people, by our own people. Now ask: how did we get here? How did we go from a culture that didn\u2019t even hit our... <\/p>\n