Poverty and Homelessness Action Week
As we enter Poverty and Homelessness Action Week (Oct. 20-25), it's essential to reflect on the causes of disproportionate poverty and homelessness among Canada's Indigenous people.
The Indian Residential Schools Resolution Health Support Program has a hotline to help residential school survivors and their relatives suffering with trauma invoked by the recall of past abuse.
Poverty and homelessness among Indigenous peoples is not an accident or a result of individual failure. It is the ongoing outcome of colonial systems, policies, and structures that were designed to displace, dispossess, and dehumanize Indigenous people.
The writer has written many short stories about their life, highlighting the struggles faced by First Nations people.
In summary, Poverty and Homelessness Action Week can reckon with ongoing colonial harms.
Author's summary: Colonial systems cause poverty.