Dr. Glen Coulthard, a member of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation and an Assistant Professor in the UBC First Nations Studies Program and Department of Political Science, has written a short analysis of the historical context that led to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) in an effort to get a better understanding of the transformative political possibilities in the present moment. His analysis is available in the online, interdisciplinary, Open Access journal, Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society
“Much has been said recently in the media about the relationship between the inspiring expression of Indigenous resurgent activity at the core of the #IdleNoMore movement and the heightened decade of Native activism that led Canada to establish the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) in 1991. I offer this short analysis of the historical context that led to RCAP in an effort to get a better sense of the transformative political possibilities in our present moment of struggle…” Read the full article at Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society.