The role of recent newcomers to Canada in reconciliation with Indigenous peoples.
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2019
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Akhmetova, Roxana
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This thesis sought to examine the importance of recent newcomer contribution to reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. In this thesis, I argue that the road to reconciliation demands a more targeted newcomer education of Indigenous peoples and their histories, as well as a greater emphasis on face-to-face interactions at the community-level between Indigenous peoples and recent immigrants. This is not to say that reconciliation at the federal government level should be abandoned or that meaningful reconciliation can be solely achieved at the community level through interactions between Indigenous peoples and newcomers. Personal experiences and observations as well as a focus group with eight Indigenous and newcomer participants guided me in my engagement with these topics. To inform my understanding of the above, I discuss the meaning of reconciliation; degrees of settler-ism; the difference between white and settler privilege; as well as the importance of intercultural collaboration. I conclude that increased efforts to educate recent newcomers and create more opportunities for personal interactions between newcomers and Indigenous peoples has the potential to increase newcomer participation in reconciliation and strengthen Indigenous-newcomer relations.
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Indigenous peoples, Reconciliation, Newcomers, Canada, Winnipeg