Interview with Kristen Gilchrist

This interview is a part of a research work I’m undertaking to see how non indigenous people understand and engage in decolonizing work. View the blog, and all interviews at http://imasettler.blogspot.ca/.

Topics:

Elliot Lake Ontario, economic migrations, blended families, unearned privilege, being a good ancestor, working with Families of Sisters in Spirit, what success means. Tanya Nepinak. How non indigenous people can help, and not help; the problem of 'colonial activism'. Problems with the official summit on murdered and missing women. Official apologies vs "Canada has no history of colonialism". UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People. Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. The Aboriginal Justice Inquiry, and the use of new inquiries. Solidarity work as privilege, and transformation.