By Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com The second edition of Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, M\u00e9tis & Inuit Issues in Canada will be released in September, marking the 10th anniversary of the original volume. Author Chelsea Vowel admits that on the strength of the five years of \u201cdifficult conversations\u201d that followed the 2015 final report issued by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) on Indian residential schools, she \u201cprobably naively\u201d hoped that settler and newcomer knowledge about Indigenous peoples would be further along than it is. The first edition of Indigenous Writes followed a year after the TRC\u2019s final report. \u201cIt quickly became apparent that political will runs everything and however much work you put into that educational push, (it) can be undone,\u201d said Vowel, who… <\/p>\n
By Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com The second edition of Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, M\u00e9tis & Inuit Issues in Canada will be released in September, marking the 10th anniversary of the original volume. Author Chelsea Vowel admits that on the strength of the five years of \u201cdifficult conversations\u201d that followed the 2015 final report issued by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) on Indian residential schools, she \u201cprobably naively\u201d hoped that settler and newcomer knowledge about Indigenous peoples would be further along than it is. The first edition of Indigenous Writes followed a year after the TRC\u2019s final report. \u201cIt quickly became apparent that political will runs everything and however much work you put into that educational push, (it) can be undone,\u201d said Vowel, who... <\/p>\n