By Canadian Press

Native women’s association says high school students should be taught about genocide

Jun 19, 2023 | 1:56 PM

OTTAWA — The Native Women’s Association of Canada says the ongoing genocide of Indigenous peoples should be part of Canadian high school curriculums, and the organization has developed a graphic guide to help teach students about it.

The group’s CEO Lynne Groulx says she sees a lack of political will when it comes to implementing the 231 calls for justice that came out of the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

She says in the four years since those calls were made, only two of them have been implemented.

The group developed an easy-to-read graphic booklet in the hopes it would spur politicians into action and better educate the next generation of Canadians.

The organization says it plans to send the booklet to each member of Parliament as well as to provincial ministers of education.

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The author of the booklet, lawyer Fannie Lafontaine, says many don’t recognize the treatment of Indigenous populations as a genocide because they associate the term with other historical events that played out differently.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 19, 2023.

The Canadian Press