Treaty 6 Grand Chief Littlechild says the withdrawal of the land acknowledgement is a sign of disrespect

Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations calls discontinuing the land acknowledgement at government events by Rick Wilson MLA for Maskwacis-Wetaskiwin a sign of disrespect. “I urge Minister Wilson and Premier Jason Kenney to rethink this decision,” says Grand Chief Wilton Littlechild.

Treaty 6 Grand Chief Littlechild says the withdrawal of the land acknowledgement is a sign of disrespect

(May 28, 2019) – "Disrespecful,” stated Dr. Wilton Littlechild, Grand Chief of the Confederacy of Treaty 6 First Nations, when he read the announcement of the newly elected Provincial Government of Alberta that effective from this point, “the Indigenous land acknowledgement – once symbolic ope…


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