Plus, an extract from the Don’t Call Me Resilient podcast on the damage done when North Americans pretend to have Indigenous identity. Listen to episode 38 of The Conversation Weekly.
Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation and Haley Lewis, The Conversation
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