Indians.
You know who I mean.
Aboriginals. Native Peoples.
The folks we stole the land from.
It's one honkin' big story today that First Nation folks are outrageously over-represented in Canada's prison population.
A few voices on the margins of the colonist world have been trying to tell this story forever.
Not to mention the entirety of the Native population.
But it's getting worse. All the trend-lines are pointing in the wrong direction.
And suddenly the media big-boys are presenting a hand-wringing spectacle designed to grab your attention for the two or three days their focus groups tell them you can pay attention.
A few days of sanctimonious headlines, some throw-away government commitment to studying this, and we'll be back to business as usual.
Maybe this time things can be different...
Idle no more!
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