Summary Of The Speech Of Audra Simpson

I enjoy listening to the speech of Audra Simpson because even is she is not an Indian woman herself; she feels concerned about the issues of Aboriginal people in Canada. She also mentioned the same problem about Indigenous people and the need to stop the oppression. I think to improve the conditions of Indian people; we should all feel concerned about those issues so that we can stop the marginalization and the murder of the Indigenous people especially woman. We see in advertise about immigration in Canada that Canada is a free trade, multiculturalism country. However, many native people are still suffering from poverty. How can we ask foreign people to come into our country when we are not able to treat well people already there? Many indigenous
women are murdered around Canada and the government does not do anything to stop it. There is no possible reconciliation between indigenous people and the government because the death of Indigenous people is still happening and nothing have changed in the conditions of Indigenous people since treaty. Women started disappearing or were missing in 1918 when an Indigenous woman married a non-Inuit man. She lost her indigenous status and her land. Many important treaties have not been applied yet to improve the life of indigenous people. Many houses of Aboriginal people are not suitable for living because the housing and lifestyle have not been improved as said in the treaty. The missing of indigenous girl is more seen as an Indian problem than a governmental issue. In 2002, a female indigenous had to fast for 6 weeks to have the attention of the governor general and prime minister to see how native people were suffering. We should all stand up to defend the Indigenous people