{"id":17031,"date":"2022-12-20T10:34:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T15:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irpp.org\/podcast\/public-policy-in-canada-from-an-indigenous-perspective-and-a-multiplicity-of-birdsong\/"},"modified":"2023-01-23T10:40:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T15:40:03","slug":"public-policy-in-canada-from-an-indigenous-perspective-and-a-multiplicity-of-birdsong","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/irpp.org\/fr\/podcast\/public-policy-in-canada-from-an-indigenous-perspective-and-a-multiplicity-of-birdsong\/","title":{"rendered":"Public policy in Canada from an Indigenous perspective and A Multiplicity of Birdsong"},"content":{"rendered":"

What does it mean to be a status Indian in Canada? Douglas Sanderson (<\/span>Amo Binashii<\/span><\/i>), a professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and a member of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation, answered this seemingly straightforward question in his <\/span>keynote speech<\/span><\/a> at our 50<\/span>th<\/span> anniversary gala. Explaining the processes of losing and gaining status in his family and the policies made to disempower Indigenous people over the last century, Sanderson paints a powerful portrait of how public policy shaped his life and that of Indigenous people across this land.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sanderson\u2019s words are followed by a stirring <\/span>poetry performance<\/span><\/a> from Greg Frankson (aka Ritallin), a leading Black Canadian poet and editor of <\/span>AfriCANthology: Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets <\/span><\/i>(2022). Frankson\u2019s work in this selection continue the theme of inequality.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n