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\u2019s the same province that the graphic novelThe Rez Doctor takes place in. But unlike its central character \u2014 young Ryan Fox \u2014 I didn\u2019t grow up facing the realities of reserve life. I was sheltered. I didn\u2019t have to navigate the racism, segregation and systemic barriers baked into on-reserve health care. I don\u2019t know what it means to leave a reserve and enter the very system that\u2019s historically excluded your people, and then fight tooth and nail just to build a life within in \u2014 as Ryan Fox had… <\/p>\n
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\u2019s the same province that the graphic novelThe Rez Doctor takes place in. But unlike its central character \u2014 young Ryan Fox \u2014 I didn\u2019t grow up facing the realities of reserve life. I was sheltered. I didn\u2019t have to navigate the racism, segregation and systemic barriers baked into on-reserve health care. I don\u2019t know what it means to leave a reserve and enter the very system that\u2019s historically excluded your people, and then fight tooth and nail just to build a life within in \u2014 as Ryan Fox had... <\/p>\n