'It can be easier to correct someone's stereotypes about Indigenous people through education if you have a relationship with that person.'
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“It’s not true, that’s a myth,” said Kyle Willmott, an assistant professor of sociology at Simon Fraser University and Tyendinaga Mohawk. “Story continues below advertisement“This idea that every Indigenous person has access to those legal rights is part of the myth. Because you have non-status people, you have Métis and Inuit who don’t have access to those things. It’s only people with status.
“There’s this concept that the relationship between Indigenous people and the federal government has led to some type of ‘benefits’ that Indigenous people have and that somehow these ‘benefits’ outweigh the impacts of colonization and assimilation and cultural genocide of residential schools,” said Young.
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