Poverty and Homelessness Action Week
As we enter Poverty and Homelessness Action Week (Oct. 20-25), it's essential to reflect on the causes of disproportionate poverty and homelessness among Canada's Indigenous people.
Poverty and homelessness among Indigenous peoples is not an accident or a result of individual failure.
It is the ongoing outcome of colonial systems, policies, and structures that were designed to displace, dispossess, and dehumanize Indigenous people.
Warning: This discussion contains content about residential schools. The Indian Residential Schools Resolution Health Support Program has a hotline to help residential school survivors and their relatives suffering with trauma invoked by the recall of past abuse.
The author's reflection is based on personal experiences, having written many short stories about their life.
Author's summary: Reflecting on colonial harms during Poverty and Homelessness Action Week.
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