Alberta Separatists' threat to Indigenous communities + Japanese Canadian health & care amid internment

Picking the brain of Ermineskin Cree Nation member and the Director of Indigenous Governance in the U of A Faculty of Native Studies, Matthew Wildcat on the real threat of Alberta separatists’ ambitions on Indigenous Peoples. Plus, Grant Notley Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta’s Department of History, Classics, and Religion, Letitia Johnson on how Japanese Canadians were racially restricted in the 1940s and yet continued to contribute to health care across the nation.

The recording of Matthew Wildcat's talk was completed at the 2025 Parkland Conference. 

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