[news] Surviving Canada: Regina, Saskatchewan: Colonizing Decolonization

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Macdonald Stainsby | Surviving Canada | June 13, 2005 The Queen of England just visited Regina last week, and was quoted as saying about a hunk of rock presented as a gift: "It symbolizes the rights of First Nations peoples, reflected in treaties signed with the Crown during her reign," as well as being a "reminder of the special relationship between the sovereign and all First Nations peoples." In perhaps one of the grandest perversions, she spoke it while standing in the First Nations University of Canada. The CBC had nothing negative to say about this visit, instead uncritically quoting the remarks of a sovereign whose history and present includes the attempted legislation of Indians out of existence, one nation at a time, in particularly British fashion.

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