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Betty Ann Adam recalls covering the Neil Stonechild inquiry and the impact it had on police-Indigenous relations in Saskatchewan.
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Betty Ann Adam recalls covering the Neil Stonechild inquiry and the impact it had on police-Indigenous relations in Saskatchewan.
Kit for schools included examples from Saskatchewan like the starlight tours by Saskatoon police and the shooting death of Colten Boushie.
For more information about CBC's First Person stories, please see . To be a Black person living in Saskatchewan is to be perceived as an ephemeral anachronism — at best understood in relation to the groups of refugees moving through or the odd highly-skilled immigrant professional who, for some reason, decided to stay. At worst, to be a Black person living in Saskatchewan is to be a punchline, a joke. Any other history of Blackness in the Prairies doesn't compute, although there are two centuries of it that reflect different waves of migrations and movements. This history has only very...