Conflicts
revealed between Indigenous people and refugees
Posted by Ann Corcoran on June 3, 2018
“It’s further colonization,” Wirch said of refugee resettlement. “We [Indigenous people] are further being displaced from our lands, from our food, from our waters. And it’s wrong.”
Diversity is strength
alert! This isn’t supposed to be happening in
welcoming Canada!
Aren’t we led to believe that
poor and oppressed minority people feel for each other, that there couldn’t
possibly be racism when neither side is white European?
Here is a bit of the story at Refugees Deeply where the
author is working really hard to get the message out that the two minority
groups (Indigenous people and refugees) are working on their tensions.
CANADA HAS A reputation
as a welcoming haven for refugees. But for some Indigenous Canadians, public
support and funding for displaced people stands in stark contrast to their own
communities, which remain impoverished and overlooked.
Notice how the author
immediately has to get a whack in at Donald Trump!
Last year the nation
welcomed 300,000 newcomers, including about 43,500 refugees and asylum seekers. Faced
with President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration policies, thousands of migrants
have left the United States to seek asylum in Canada.
Many arrived in Manitoba,
whose capital Winnipeg has the largest Indigenous population of any Canadian
city. The city also faces problems with violence, drugs and homelessness.
[So of course it is the perfect place to insert Middle Eastern refugees!—-ed]
Refugees compete with the local
low income people for government services. Where have I heard this before?
Indigenous peoples’ leader Jenna Wirch Refugees in Winnipeg often settle in
low-income and predominantly Indigenous neighborhoods. Many of the residents
fear they will be forced to compete with their new neighbors for resources that
are already scarce.
Last year, a group of
Indigenous children pepper-sprayed a group of young refugees outside an Immigrant and Refugee
Community Organization of Manitoba (IRCOM) housing facility in the mainly
Indigenous Centennial neighborhood of Winnipeg.
Jenna Wirch, 26, an
Indigenous woman from Winnipeg and a community development worker at IRCOM,
works with both communities. She is also the youth engagement coordinator for
Aboriginal Youth Opportunities, an organization working in Winnipeg’s North
End.
“It’s further
colonization,” Wirch said of refugee resettlement. “We [Indigenous people] are
further being displaced from our lands, from our food, from our waters. And
it’s wrong.”
Keep reading, there is much more about how this grand experiment in
creating a multicultural dream land is not going so well.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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