Indigenous leader calls for new reconciliation agreement with the monarchy
He was also born in James Smith Cree Nation and claims the knife attack that resulted in one of the worst mass killings in Canada’s history is partly rooted in the British royal family’s colonizing powers, making the vicious and senseless acts of violence, entirely predictable.
Sanderson points to foundational precedents like a papal bull decreed in 1493 that enabled land inhabited by non-Christian people “discovered” by European explorers to be vanquished and the peoples to be subdued. He says it was used to validate the theft of Indigenous lands and resources, and set the stage for more than 500 years of systemic racism and cultural genocide.
“That’s what it was all about, taking away our way of life so we’d destroy ourselves… the violence will turn internally, that’s what’s happening today like in James Smith Cree Nation,” he said. Now with the queen’s passing, Sanderson says he does not believe the monarchy should be abolished or that Canada should cut its ties with it, but he is renewing calls for action from the royal institution.
“To me, it is unfortunate the death of the monarch has taken some of the necessary attention away from those events and the families at James Smith Cree Nation,” Supernant told Global News.
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