By Jeremy Appel, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Alberta Native News The forces that Alberta\u2019s separatist movement represents pose a far greater threat than the prospect of Alberta separating from Canada, according to a scholar in the University of Alberta\u2019s Department of Native Studies. \u201cIt might be better for us to shift our energies from trying to foreclose the possibility of Alberta separation from a legal standpoint,\u201d said Prof. Matt Wildcat, \u201cto thinking through what the Alberta separatist movement is and how it should be responded to.\u201d Wildcat, a member of Erminskine Cree Nation in Maskwacis, made these remarks at the Parkland Institute\u2019s annual conference at UAlberta on Saturday. He emphasized that all 48 First Nations in Alberta \u2014 either individually or via the organizations that represent them \u2014 have spoken… <\/p>\n
By Jeremy Appel, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Alberta Native News The forces that Alberta\u2019s separatist movement represents pose a far greater threat than the prospect of Alberta separating from Canada, according to a scholar in the University of Alberta\u2019s Department of Native Studies. \u201cIt might be better for us to shift our energies from trying to foreclose the possibility of Alberta separation from a legal standpoint,\u201d said Prof. Matt Wildcat, \u201cto thinking through what the Alberta separatist movement is and how it should be responded to.\u201d Wildcat, a member of Erminskine Cree Nation in Maskwacis, made these remarks at the Parkland Institute\u2019s annual conference at UAlberta on Saturday. He emphasized that all 48 First Nations in Alberta \u2014 either individually or via the organizations that represent them \u2014 have spoken... <\/p>\n