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• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
• Stolen Continents by Ronald Wright
• Any Book by Richard Wagamese (examples: One Drum, Indian Horse) 
• Five Little Indians by Michelle Good
• Settler: Identity and Colonialism in 21st Ce

These extracts are from a speech given by Gerry Gambill at a conference on human rights at Tobique Reserve in New Brunswick. In this speech, he warned Indigenous people about how society goes about taking away their human rights.

Can you guess what year this speech was given? Read on and we’ll tell you at the end.

^{Note: The speech was given at a time when the word “Indian” was used by government to refer to Indigenous people and it was common to default pronouns to he (him/his).}

On May 27, the Nova Scotia government announced that the long awaited public consultations on the Sustainable Development Goals Act (SDGA) were beginning immediately. While it’s a bit like being invited to a dinner party once the meal has already started, Sierra Club’s Atlantic Canada Chapter and other environmental groups are jumping in. 

Land Acknowledgments have become more and more common in recent years and can be a great place to start as an ally for Indigenous communities and peoples. The term "ally" is defined by Sheree Atcheson as "any person that actively promotes and aspires to advance the culture of inclusion through intentional, positive and conscious efforts that benefit people as a whole." You can read more about allyship here.