Rallying the Vote, On and Off Reserve – TheTyee.ca

Grassroots organizers shoot for the greatest Indigenous voter turnout in Canadian history.

Indigenous people in Canada are far from apolitical or apathetic.

A legacy of several hundred years of colonialism — broken treaties, residential schools, unliveable houses on some reserves, missing and murdered women, high incarceration rates and low high school graduation rates — has resulted in political actions such as protests, hunger strikes, blockades and plenty of court cases.

First Nations, Inuit and Métis people are perhaps more politically engaged now, during the Conservative government years, than at any other time in this country’s history.

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