The Promised Land

This episode of Ideas includes a lecture by Max FineDay given at Vancouver Island University as Part of the University's "Indigenous Speakers Series." FineDay, the Executive Director of Canada Roots Exchange discusses the historical legacy of treaties, reserves, the pass system, economic disenfranchisement and relates them to contemporary the intergenerational pain among Indigenous youth has led to young children taking their own lives, he argues that reconciliation must include land reclamation.