"I was twenty-two, a recent graduate of a university named after Christopher Columbus. The Huffington Post had hired me to be their "Native Issues Fellow," essentially a glorified intern working mostly from behind a desk in New York City. My first headline, written in that tabloid-y left-of-centre HuffPost style: "Canada Just Confronted Its 'Cultural Genocide' of Native People. Why Can't the U.S. Do the Same?""
"He had a hard upbringing, bouncing from one house to the next. He got off the rez as soon as he could, found his way to Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver, and landed a job at a fine art printmaking studio as far away from Canim Lake as he could imagine: New York. That's where he met my mother, a loud, quick-witted Irish Jewish New Yorker, at a bar outside the city."
A journalist began reporting the week the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released the summary of its Final Report. The journalist was twenty-two and recently graduated from a university named after Christopher Columbus. The Huffington Post hired the journalist as Native Issues Fellow, a desk-based internship in New York City, producing a headline comparing Canada's confrontation of 'cultural genocide' with the United States. After a decade reporting on Indigenous communities in Canada and the U.S., the journalist identifies as a member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq'escen and describes family history including a father born at St. Joseph's Mission residential school, his escape from the rez, work in New York, and a mother who maintained cultural ties.
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