Indigenous Elder Shuts Down Disrespectful White Journalists

[@marksavoia3687]

"There has been 524yrs of holistic genocide on Turtle Island ....You havent changed, because you haven't started your healing journeys ... THE MOMENT WE HAVE OUR VOICE AND OUR BACKBONE YOU WANNA SHUT US DOWN ... because of your white fragility, YOU CANT TAKE OUR TRUTH" -Jocelyn Wabano-iahtail #AmplifyIndigenousFemaleVoices

[@dwhite8997]

CHECKED HER IN HER OWN LANGUAGE! "YOU ARE A GUEST HERE! ALL YOUR GOVERNMENTS HAVE BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS! YOU CAN'T HANDLE OUR TRUTH! WITHOUT US YOU'D BE HOMELESS!".....ABSOLUTELY POWERFUL...

[@Mavuno100]

@Lan Astaslem Lan, yours is a mindset born of privilege. Any good to Canada clearly isn't done by people like you. We need to elevate the conversation to a more sophisticated level than you exhibit through your shallow remark.

[@trav2190]

The truth will break this country apart and all races depend on the system to the point they will defend

[@trav2190]

@Lan Astaslem native people were better off. Cant say that about the other side of the world

[@antoniomontana1334]

Im mexican and love my native american Brothers. We are the same people.

[@terriluanne4538]

Antonio Montana what abought native Canadans

[@ajvaldez11]

Canadians are included in native american. As well as south and central americans of native descendants

[@HinduBoy]

Truth. As a US citizen who has not traveled there... it feels true. U can see more of the color / culture / looks / presense in mexicans than any US (multigenerational)

[@Migmaw]

You my friend are indigenous, you are Native, you may live in a place called Mexico but you are indigenous. Colonial powers gave us labels, Mexican, American Indian, Canadian Indian, those are labels of places we reside Had they not separated us they would be the minority, they decided but never conquered 🧡

[@kikiking4463]

And that’s how you shut em down!!!

[@mshafer1021]

Lakenya King, shut them down for what? Asking a simple question?

[@HinduBoy]

@@mshafer1021 boy... u better gwt off u computer.

[@astrogirl9987]

No that’s how you make yourself look like an ass. All that woke rhetoric! How is it okay to scapegoat an entire race of people for the wrongs of the government. She knows nothing about that room full of people she only sees the shade of their skin and prejudged them like any bigot would.

[@trav2190]

@@astrogirl9987 dude the news is owned by the government. Take your head outta your ass

[@jp-jax]

I get goosebumps hearing her speaking in her native language. I don't know what she said, but her indignation is clear and cuts across any language barrier.

[@sisterlylove1175]

"Chiholloli"..... My Elder .. I Love You in Chickasaw

[@eyesthatsmile-heartthatlov8050]

The passion and directness was so powerful.

[@terrencemyers2735]

The truth is always on the side of the oppressed!

[@ParadigmRabbit]

Truth will not seek people. It is higher than people. People must seek truth. Truth devotes itself to no one. You must devote yourself to truth.

[@RNDes-sz4qe]

"the struggle of (humans) against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." the truth is always on the side of the oppressed when the oppressor's primary tactic is lies.

[@astrogirl9987]

Wrong

[@astrogirl9987]

@@RNDes-sz4qe and who might I ask r the oppressed and can they ever use lies to benefit from the current circumstances remember Jesse Smollett, fake hate crimes r reported all the time. Truth is the truth regardless of your shade of skin

[@Romer411]

I'm a Noongar *Aboriginal* woman in Western Australia, this made me so Proud. Respect and love to you all x

[@mshafer1021]

Ro Merrett, without white Australians, you’d be sleeping in stick huts. If that was such a glorious lifestyle, why not go back to it!

[@Naquel21]

mshafer1021 shut your ass up. Without them you’d be dead from starvation when you arrived.

[@HinduBoy]

🐺🐾✊

[@HinduBoy]

@@mshafer1021 p.S. i prefer stick and eastern abodes... step back sheetrock sheep

[@trav2190]

@@Naquel21 lol so true

[@freewill2232]

Love her... from the Trinidad and Tobago ..ARAWAK NATIVES... we will be known forever...

[@tanitaindelicato5649]

The blood and spirit of the ancestors cannot be, nor will it ever be shut down. We are them and they are us. Thank you my beautiful elder.

[@NunyaBey]

Arawak Natives are very invisible. When I tried to tell Caribbean ppl about the Arawak Natives in T&T, they LAUGHED me down, said I was making shit up.

[@GaryHField]

@@NunyaBey that's because Arawak no longer exists as a tribe. Their population was decimated by Spanish diseases, and the few that were left intermarried with White Spaniards and Black Slaves. They were absorbed by bigger cultures and ethnicities. This is in contrast with the Nahua and Mayans in Mexico that are very popular because their ethnic identities remains strong and they are in millions.

[@jaydee4646]

I am Black and felt this deeply.

[@MrTvareshoward]

God bless the native people.

[@adamewakman8167]

Slavic Strong Go back to Europe

[@adamewakman8167]

Slavic Strong Slavic that name Explains a lot. By the way Your day's are numbered.

[@adamewakman8167]

Slavic Strong I fuckin hate your race, you're a fuckin invader in my Land.

[@randompeople6835]

@@slavicstrength8916 dude what the hell shut up

[@charleslennonbaker]

@@slavicstrength8916 500+ plus years and WE are still here. You have tried to systematically destroy us with bad medicine, then expect us to blame ourselves for our condition. "No matter how you try us 'Natives' we will never die! We just retaliate with truth and then we multiply". Paraphrased from the verse, "Got Nothing to Lose" by the lyrist "Shining Serpent" Shakur.

[@doublekatana95]

I have nothing but respect!! As a descendant of the slave trade who's ancestors also married in to the Native tribes and just the facts being preached out. ✌✌✌

[@slavicstrength8916]

fuck them and you

[@DA1NONLYDANI88]

You don't wanna mess with Natives, but native + black... ohhh you just asking for a war 🤣 No offense, btw. I know a lot of Native history and African/black history in the U.S.

[@MrThomas564]

@@DA1NONLYDANI88 Word!

[@mshafer1021]

Slavic Strength, 🙋🏻‍♂️

[@mshafer1021]

doublekatana95, you wouldn’t exist if not for the slave trade. Do you mean to say you’re a victim of your own existence?

[@trista4congress827]

I am SICK AND TIRED of the DISRESPECT & GENOCIDAL POLICIES toward our native families! Indigenous people deserve our respect ✊🏾 & love ❤️ & understanding & appreciation for their knowledge & wisdom. Native peoples know how to save the 🌍 earth, to heal the world & to live in harmony w/ Mother Nature.

[@traumahealingandprevention]

That reporter needed to be escorted out. Period

[@bearone7777]

She was right---You are a guest here on "TURTLE--ISLAND"!! BLESSINS TO ALL OF THEM!!

[@realcanadian4179]

lol stfu Europeans own this land bitch

[@bearone7777]

You and your stupid ass comment are not worth commenting about!!

[@conorcorrigan765]

Lol so kick us out then... If we're really just "guests". I don't think you understand what that word means...

[@conorcorrigan765]

And your rather unlettered spastic comment proves just what sort of intellectual calibre you yourself possess. Thanks for demonstrating it, and as always, thanks for doing your part to make sure more Canadians become conservatives. Your insane racist diatribes really do a lot for us...

[@slavicstrength8916]

shhhhh relax your people are slowly going away LOL can't wait!

[@michaelb.9231]

i love these ladies, we need more of them

[@marceljacques2330]

our Women are our fiercest Warriors

[@lorilemonade6649]

"524 years you've been visible, White Lady!" lol! gotta ❤ it!!

[@doublekatana95]

lorilemonade 524 years!

[@conorcorrigan765]

I don't think humans live that long... What you're applauding was literally just a racial prejudice, i.e. using her race to tar her with crimes she never personally committed. You know- racism?

[@joannechisholm4501]

Ye pack those Pecky whitties back to Europe whence they came!!

[@justplay9389]

@@conorcorrigan765 your a crime the minute you were concieved🤣😂

[@conorcorrigan765]

Nothing to see here just the left being massive racists (again).

[@Mr.Pristine]

Omg! That was beautiful. She let her have it in all sections. Just amazing

[@DonDon-up8wf]

Lol! She put them dead-square in their place...

[@SkepticalChris]

couldn't have said it better myself. "put them in their place"? She had a microphone, they didn't. Just because her volume was louder and you couldn't hear the replies, doesn't mean she was remotely right. All she did was show that she too was just as racist as those she was attacking, and I wouldn't be surprised it the majority of Canadians just simply turn around and ignore her.

[@TheDCGuitar13]

Slavic Strength because the Slavs aren’t the equivalent of back people in Europe.😂😂😂looks like someone wants to feel superior despite the facts you’re equally worthless😂😂😂

[@justplay9389]

@@SkepticalChris Your a parasite

[@justplay9389]

@manu ochenta your an idiot like a real uneducated idiot

[@commonsince9401]

@@slavicstrength8916 it must be hard living with nothing honorable to be proud of .nothing your race has ever done that is Honorable. All with evil intent. You are the lowest of the low that is a fact. But brother I love you and I will pray

[@MrThomas564]

She speaking the truth!

[@adannew1831]

The amazing, and truthful Native Indian woman is called Jocelyn Wabano-Lahtsil, and i absolutely adore how she puts this white reporter down.Everything she says is the real truth,and non-whites should acknowledge her wonderful words to these reporters.Congratulations to this lovely Native Indian lady for speaking the truth. 😍👍👊👏

[@mshafer1021]

She didn’t speak truth, she evaded a simple question with victim bullshit

[@luvu2323]

@@mshafer1021 The white reporter had the audacity to ask" You don't think they've done enough?" When they explained for an hour The injustices and the unfairness they have endured. The reporter is blind and deaf.

[@HinduBoy]

glad she has backs and voices with her.

[@HinduBoy]

@@mshafer1021 u are child, we forgive u... respect ur elders and we will heal and uplift u, our son.

[@trav2190]

@@mshafer1021 dont hate and dont be jealous. Just like she said when they have a voice and backbone people like u try and shut them down and FAIL hahahhahaa

[@daniesavage]

My people are so BEAUTIFUL; pure, raw, unfiltered.

[@mshafer1021]

Dan Savage, and bitter as fuck.

[@trav2190]

@@mshafer1021 when they have a voice and backbone people like u try and shut them down and FAIL hahahaha

[@Sean-cb8qb]

This is the press conference of voice and life! Yes they've had their voice for 524 years! That colonial mindset is a real thing! I noticed the majority of white Americans do have this tone in their voice of superiority and importance (very subtle in most) and I never could nail it until this woman described it for me and such masterly detail! With that being said all humans Need racial reconciliation and individual healing Journeys in order to be free from our undeniable unjust histories.

[@mshafer1021]

Sean, 1.) As a white American, I felt “superior” to other Europeans while I lived and traveled in Europe. That sense of superiority is not racial, it’s national. 2. ALL people on planet earth have been victims of conquests and colonialism. What you and I think of as someone from India is not actually indigenous to India...they replaced indigenous Druvidian people who were of African origin. The Japanese and Taiwanese also displaced indigenous populations. The Jews displaced Canaanites. Blacks displaced Egyptians during the Hyksos reign of Egypt. Turks displaced Greeks. Warring Native American tribes displaced other tribes. That’s just how history goes. All we can do is live by our newfound values. We can’t change the past and we can’t burden living people to rectify what dead people did

[@damionhogans2947]

@@mshafer1021 Excuse me? Let’s not “All lives matter” this conversation. We know colonization and conquest has existed all over the world and for centuries but in this period of time it is European colonialism and supremacy that we as people of color are trying to deal with. Mentally and culturally we have been broken down and destroyed by the ideology of white supremacy and we are still trying to throw off the chains of that slavery today. Stop conflating issues of nationality and race. We do not all experience these things from the same place. The past absolutely affects the present but as long as people like you want to deny it to protect your own privilege and place at the top of the social hierarchy nothing will ever change. You don’t move on from things by forgetting. You learn by remembering.

[@trav2190]

@@mshafer1021 when they have a voice and backbone people like u try and shut them down and FAIL hahahaha

[@stevierae6654]

I will forever remember this power indigenous women and how she humbled that white reporter. I could watch it everyday

[@darlenefarmer5921]

Speak, my sisters/elders! SPEAK! Dohi!

[@itoldyounottotouchit3336]

What does "Dohi" mean?

[@slavicstrength8916]

Probably means give me more gas to sniff

[@seanl548]

I TOLD YOU NOT TO TOUCH IT! It is Inuit for "d'uh"

[@trav2190]

@@seanl548 when they have a voice and backbone people like u try and shut them down and FAIL hahahaha

[@boutybutsweet]

Amen! You are DONE HERE spoken from one of our beautiful Indigenous elders. Love your voice

[@lancsFrogger]

she does recognize the tone in her (own) voice & in her delivery. she sure as f**k'd change both when speaking to anyone she was afraid of

[@trav2190]

Shes pissed off becuz of 500 years of being treated bad. If something like this happen to your white race u would be mad

[@djchrisoakcliff]

Yes yes yes you will respect our people and stop treating the native people like they are the problem. You got a problem so humble yourself and make it right by the native body.

[@MetalxMasters]

The reporter didn't give a shit about what we have to say. She was there to push buttons and get a reaction. Sadly, she got what she wanted along with a reinforcement for her ignorant beliefs against indigenous people. I have dealt with women like that reporter that was told to leave. People like her will either give you attitude and a cold shoulder or they'll talk down to you like you're a child or handicap. You can't win with these people.

[@Ms.Delphine1204]

Whew! I felt that. Bless all people that have suffered at the hands of whites.

[@mshafer1021]

Delphine w....how about thank God for whites and everything we’ve done for this world, including give you the device you used to type that bullshit

[@trav2190]

@@mshafer1021 when they have a voice and backbone people like u try and shut them down and FAIL hahahaha

[@neoniahazelwood9263]

She is brave, strong and respectful. Thank you Elder for speaking out in a professional way.

[@conorcorrigan765]

Respectful? Did we watch the same video?

[@mshafer1021]

She’s not brave. She would be brave if she faced jail time or persecution for speaking her mind, but the liberal idiots running Canada eat that shit up

[@ScoutMotto2011]

Native gal using such bigoted verbage is not professional in the slightest, nor is it respectful.

[@trav2190]

@@conorcorrigan765 i like how white people get offended when another person tells a native lady good job

[@trav2190]

@@ScoutMotto2011 keep hating. U would not like were u end up with that hate and jealousy

[@angelgates2938]

I love this lady!!

[@seanl548]

Angel Gates y tho? She's a racist pig.

[@trav2190]

@@seanl548 dont hate and dont be jealous

[@whatthecrap9928]

I am black and i felt her proudness to my core and i was proud with them....just watching 6 years later....powerful.

[@daraokon9740]

PERIOD. As she should

[@Dumpsterfiregrace]

Dohi! Speak Mothers, we listen and we spread your Truth!!

[@conorcorrigan765]

Lol Did you just watch Pocahontas or is that actually how you think Native people talk?

[@trav2190]

@@conorcorrigan765 when they have a voice and backbone people like u try and shut them down and FAIL hahahaha

[@donnaclark2268]

100% Real Truth💟

[@meaux8]

Truth! Truth! Much respect ~

[@gotrain4me]

The land IS their identity. FAITHFULNESS. MODESTY. PATIENCE. COURAGE. BIGHEARTEDNESS. TRUSTFULNESS. PENTIENCE.. all are qualities of a prophet.

[@cocricklewood4441]

Well Done! What a slap an a quick education.

[@MrSteveTurney]

I am with, beside and behind the native community.

[@bnatruelleking1042]

tribe of gad waking up..... this is your brother juda we are the 12 tribes the holy people the Israelites they will pay for what they did us...SHALOM

[@zaandamdog]

USA is ready for Native president please make this happen

[@marceljacques2330]

POTUS Johnathon Strong Eagle

[@JudyReadsCards]

Six years ago. Auntie wasn't wrong about Trudeau then and she's still not wrong. ALL indigenous peoples must be free!

[@westernessence7644]

I'm a European American that certainly wants to preserve my European culture and heritage and values, and at the same time I really admire, and I respect the Indian culture.

[@zoiedee5341]

Johnny Bump thank you for respecting my culture

[@tanitaindelicato5649]

Which European values are you speaking of? Many of us are under the mantle of the European value of genocide, the European value of the divine .manifest and manifest destiny, and the European value that justifies crimes against humanity in the name of greed and progress. I am not accusing you of having the values listed here because I do not know which European values you identify with, so, I am asking. Take care and be safe

[@westernessence7644]

@@tanitaindelicato5649 I was talking about the European values expressed in the Bill of Rights, expressed in the Constitution, in the Declaration of Independence, in our National anthem... And the truth is that one of the biggest issues people use to degrade and to cast hate upon White people and anger and racism against White people is the fact that Europeans came to America and defeated the Indians that were here (and established this great country). And there's no question that Europeans (500 years ago) came to the Americas and conquered much of the American continents. This wouldn't necessarily be looked about good from the Indian population. And anyone could go back and say well, 'this was wrong what happened'. Well, it's true from a modern perspective. Anyways, the Indians certainly had many advocates for fair treatment including Davy Crockett (one of my heroes). And I honor the Indians for fighting for themselves - every honorable people fights for their own heritage (including White people). But the idea of saying that White people are terrible because we came here and we created this great country and we conquered - tell me one Indian tribe that has not conquered others. Actually, the Indian warfare between each other was in many ways like a racial conflict because these Indian tribes actually often had different physical appearances, they had different dress, they had different languages and they saw them as completely alien people not of them - they conquered, they exterminated, they oppressed, they enslaved, they kidnapped. I mean, the Mound people in American were totally wiped out by the other Indians. And there were no reservations built for them, no concern at all. You cannot go and find any Mound people, any Mound reservations because they were wiped out primarily by the Cherokees and a few other Indian tribes - they were genocided. And if you look at every Indian tribe in the United States of America - every one of these tribes has had different migrations where they've conquered other tribes, taken over the land and created their society. So there's no unique crimes by European Americans that didn't exist of Indian tribes against each other (Indian peoples against each other). And the truth is that there have been many Americans, leading Americans from the earliest times of colonialism who respected Indian culture and who worked hard to make sure that Indian culture wasn't wiped out (that they had reservations) unlike the Mound people who were wiped out and genocided by other Indian tribes. So, the truth is that Europeans did much more to recognize and honor the people that they conquered (the Indian people they conquered) - they tried to establish reservations for them where they had their own sovereignty. And I understand that Europeans have committed ethnic domination and conquest before - but every other people has done the same. Chinese tribes have done it; the Chinese conquered the Mongols, the Mongols conquered the Chinese and repressed them, the Indian tribes attacked each other, we can go on and on. I've heard this theme that Europeans are so horrible because what we did in colonialism or what we did with the Indians. But the truth is that every race has conquered other races or other tribes, other peoples, and this is nothing more than just a vicious way of hate speech against European people. You see, if we're going to condemn European tribes for coming in and conquering and creating a society then you're going to have to condemn every Indian tribe that attacked each other and put each other into slavery and all sorts of other issues. Furthermore, there's a lot of evidence that the Europeans came to the Americas before the Asian Indians and yet we're given a guilt complex and a guilt trip all the time about what we did to the Indians. What did they do to our ultimate ancestors? I mean, the truth is White people lived in North America peacefully for more than 5,000 years - then the Asians came over the Bering Land bridge slaughtered us to extinction and called themselves "native". You see, the evidence is that we had thriving European communities in America upwards of 30,000 years ago during the period of the great ice age. And we know that the earliest evidence of Indian presents in the Americas was 13,500 years ago. That's the accepted date of the earliest Indian settlements in the United States of America. And the evidence is overwhelming. And these European tribes were completely (unfortunately, from a European standpoint) conquered by Indian tribes; they were wiped out or to a degree assimilated and their identity was completely destroyed in the Americas. So, the truth is that the first people that came to this country (America) and created culture, societies were in fact European people. And by saying this I'm not trying to denigrate Indians. I actually admire the spirit of the Indian peoples standing up for themselves and I honor them - and I also honor the European people for the same value system. And I celebrate when the Indians say 'we want to preserve our culture, we want to preserve our heritage (our genealogy), we want to preserve our ways - I clap my hands. The truth is that Indian populations today are flourishing and they have their own areas which they have literally control over. They don't even have to pay the same kind of taxes as other Americans have to pay. They have a lot of individual sovereignty. It's almost like autonomous states. It's similar to the Cantons of Switzerland where they really can do what they want. They're not even subject to many Federal laws or state laws, and I think that's good, and I think that they have a right to preserve their heritage, and I think there's a special accord we could give to many of the people who lived here. You see, the truth is that Indian reservations actually compose literally millions and millions and millions of acres. And we recognize the idea that the Indians have a right to preserve their heritage and their culture. In fact, we absolutely don't allow Europeans to go (against their wishes) into those Indian reservations, right? They have that right, but isn't that interesting how there's a double standard today? And it's also true that there were very few Indians in proportion to this huge land mass of Canada and America, but they certainly fought very bravely to defend their own hunting grounds, their own territories which you'd expect of any people. You can't condemn any people for doing such. But Indian population figures were never huge in these huge vast Americas; and there were migrations of people historically. And finally, the truth is that all peoples now (whether they be Indian, whether they be African, whether they be Asian) we need to respect each others culture, allow for each others culture to survive and be preserved and absolutely endorse the idea that no one has the right to exploit or harm or try to destroy anybody else's culture.

[@Gl6619]

@@westernessence7644 as a bi-racial man…I hate how the woke SJW act like everything white people have done is bad….while ironically enjoying the comforts of many white inventions…yes white peoples have done some bad things in history, but everyone else has also….I use to be a die hard SJW until I started to see the hypocrisy and pandering and know I consider myself politically an independent….I’m someone who appreciates aspects of other cultures so how can I then turn around and say “all white people bad/racist”….I understand your just proud of your culture and woke people will try to construe it like you’re proud of racism/sexism/ etc…as if that all white peoples have brought…not realizing most western nations…founded by white people are very peaceful…again not that any non-white country is horrible….but just saying we can deny the founding fathers have a vision of what a free country could be like, even despite the fact that they themselves where far from perfect…and because we are human with weakness, we sometimes sabotage that vision, but the fact that that document is still respected and admired by other people who have started revolutions because they believe in that vision should be acknowledged and if where going to talk about all the bad that white people have done let’s at least be fair and give credit to that

[@Jah-Know]

That's how you fight back... Take no Bullshit

[@sistasaturn]

Wooooo! Yes ma'am! I'm inspired!

[@trav2190]

@Lan Astaslem dont be jealous. That someone said good job to a native. Dont let hate control u

[@mellow_mallow]

this is so fucking good!!!!!! these two are incredible

[@yoshisaba]

BEAUTIFULLY DONE!

[@dedequinney]

"Can you just answer the question please!"

[@surgeland9084]

If anyone is wondering why this is an offensive question, it's because they're making it about themselves and their government. This question of who is the preferable government misses the point that every Canadian government is guilty as she went to say. People really don't understand what this country looks like to us Indigenous people if they don't see what's wrong with that question.

[@DA1NONLYDANI88]

These beautiful native, original natives were pretty much telling the press, they took charge. If only ALL my native people would stand together like this.... hopeful dreams. This country would be different, more peace.

[@tanitaindelicato5649]

We will and are. Time is up

[@dymonnholden]

Without (us Natives) you would be homeless!!! -Dyin' laughing 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@satanshameer690]

Please support indigenous people in Latin America, Siberia, Alaska, Greenland, etc too . They are your closest relatives

[@benjamitewarriorqueen9355]

Along with “black Americans” all are the “lost” tribes of Israel 🇮🇱

[@TexasHeathen]

Waya hatu no seyata!!!! You fight for my three daughters and their Tawakoni bloodline!! ♡♡♡♡

[@jadavison]

Pathetic. They can handle a single question and then go full racist. Native people in both Canada and especially the US can be as successful as they want.

[@allkindsofthings673]

your're a guest here.......get out!

[@conorcorrigan765]

Make me.

[@slavicstrength8916]

Yeah make us... Europeans did so much for this land

[@rektangel9589]

In the conferance room? So are you, just sayin. Many of those journalists probably spend many hours every week in that exact room and you wanted them there to write about you. No journalist will write exactly what you tell them no questions asked. Unless they are corrupt and if so fuck em, they should be jailed.

[@trav2190]

@@slavicstrength8916 when they have a voice and backbone people like u try and shut them down and FAIL hahahaha

[@trav2190]

@@conorcorrigan765 no one cares about u and your 3 friends lol just hiding behide a computer lmao cowards

[@papitodon7198]

Crushed her soul with the Truth

[@e.j.406]

These women blew up an opportunity to get support for MMIWG. All they did was alienate people. Yes this reporter turned this into a political/partisan issue. But the reaction to her question was out of bounds. Here's a response. "Ma'am, I understand what you're saying, but this is not about politics. I don't care who the Prime Minister is. No, I don't think Harper would have paid much attention to this problem. But Trudeau isn't doing enough either. No one is. That's our point, and that's why we're here. I understand you may like Trudeau and want to defend him from criticism. But this problem is bigger than politics. We want to raise awareness of unsolved MMIWG cases to ALL leaders and push ALL leaders to address this problem."

[@YaffaKedarZion]

Speak!

[@mshafer1021]

YaffaKedarZion, “heya-heya, heya-heya, wa-wa-wa-wa-wa”

[@kathleenoney4507]

This is epic! It’s about time white Americans were forced to see what their ancestors have done.

[@chicagosdarkcrow2384]

She wasnt havent any of that bullshit .

[@aloetrancy6276]

Where's the full video?

[@DianaLDiehl]

I want someone like her for president in the U.S. Start righting some wrongs.

[@trav2190]

If that happen im sure she would expose all of usa wrong doing probably collapse the country lol but i would like to see that happen

[@BlueHooloovoo]

So what was the point of this press conference?

[@twistedsideways8181]

BlueHooloovoo Read the Description

[@BlueHooloovoo]

+Twisted Sideways - Only the journalists weren't disrespectful. Why was this press conference called by the protesters? What was their end game here?

[@conorcorrigan765]

It's secretly a campaign ad for the Conservative party...

[@BlueHooloovoo]

@Lilac 098 Huh?

[@gramz6301]

Much Respect...

[@victorwilson2209]

tell it mom

[@jeffholden1921]

I have to say that I'm extremely disappointed by this comment section. Apparently the media can't freely ask legitimate questions without getting shut down by disrespectful and racist speakers. Of course these women probably went through lots in their life but that absolutely does not justify taking out your own problems on others. We need to focus on the future and let go of the past already.

[@ninastone9054]

Jeff Holden I couldn't clearly gear the question nor would I be able to fully understand where the speakers are coming from because I haven't experienced it or have any personal connection to it. But I do empathize with them because I too come from a people who have been disenfranchised and mistreated. A fact! Never will a group of people just LET it go. To this day people Natives are still being mistreated and others. When that stops then we will LET it go

[@TheDCGuitar13]

You get mad at Donald for doing that or are you cherry picking today?...

[@krisv1991]

Jeff Holden how can we focus on the future when we do not address the past? It’s the past that has led us to this point. The issues of today stem from the issues of the past. So, that doesn’t quite make sense. That’s like saying ignore that slavery happened. But it was slavery that led to Jim Crow and it was Jim Crow that led to Civil Rights Movement and it was that that has still affected us today.

[@jeremylamy2554]

Jeff Holden, your Basically Stupid man, take your time to learn about indian residential schools and the sixties scoop and go to a indian reserve to see how it effects indians to this day, Those indigenous women were offended by that female reporter stupids ass question and that male reporter was being totally rude by re asking the same question when they weren't comfortable answering that question

[@sommertally1930]

She was upset at the way she was talking to her! I can totally agree. It's not about the questions she's asking, it's how she delivered it. That's what she was trying to say.

[@agatheringinjordan]

Praise AHAYAH!!!!

[@ericabenjamin2850]

Why would she turn to United Nations if she needs help. Something is wrong thou she sound right Something is wrong

[@therainforest4314]

It's so heart-breaking, the truth. :(

[@teamscouts]

HF ... that’s power.

[@macabee5576]

Damnnn!! She put!! that white lady in her place

[@redhen2123]

Lol, Natives yelling at CTV journalists to stop asking questions ! So brave ! Primitive hunter-gatherers, whaddya gonna do? /shrug

[@RescueRangersOPES]

Awesome!! Speak the truth, shame the Devil!!!

[@rodrigolara6733]

White lady should have shut up when asked. They are activists because of what they see true injustice that has a caused the death of many, a question of if someone did a little better then someone else may have insulted them because they probably feel like they are dying. I am not sure exactly what was disrespectful about the question, but I guess when you are talking about 500 something cases of injustice and even massacres and you are there to get the government to hear the plea. I do see how she would be offended by the question or it be seen as completely irrelevant. Even if it was not a disrespectful question and just felt insulting because it diminished their cause, it should be enough for the white lady to ship up. She kept asking her to stop and the white lady was disrespectful in that way. Maybe that was her job as a journalist to ask that specific question, but if they see it as insulting well you better be quiet or get lectured as she did hear. This isn’t about answering stupid questions to them, they are trying to get their message and have a mission at hand, the government as done very little in comparison to what has been taken in regards to treaties that were actually signed to give to them. So for example they probably saw the question as insulting like saying didn’t the governor hand out plates of food on thanksgiving day? while they were talking about broken treaties that caused death and broken school systems that caused many problems such as alcoholism, underfunded medical help, deaths etc.

[@fishingbear69]

..too many truth hurts..

[@collijul8]

nothings changed

[@anthonycomer8410]

So asking a completely reasonable question is now offensive?

[@dumdauzi]

God i love the POWER of the Truth, God bless you lady

[@dustinmcgladrey562]

Beautiful

[@SkepticalChris]

You don't attract sympathy with attacking. Sorry, but as of Jocelyn Wabano-Iahtail's little tryad the public will easily turn a blind eye to them. Zero sympathy.

[@natureboi2426]

I love this!!!

[@Chillyman010]

Well damn

[@tifftreads]

I Love this!!!

[@KStewart-th4sk]

JULIE VAN DUSEN, is nothing more than a TRUDEAU LIBERAL ASS KISSER, the typical type that work at the CBC. They are/were always attacking Harper while defending their Trudeau at every turn. I am glad you exposed in the notes who was asking the question(trying to garner accolades for her Trudeau) because i wasn't sure if she stated her name.

[@ScoutMotto2011]

Turtle Island? 2:45 This is taken to refer to North America. She refers to genocide on Turtle Island. Does she speak for all north American tribes? If she's going to go that big, then does she include the genocide of tribe against tribe? Or is this just her opportunity to preach at white people?

[@Theatrelove]

I didn’t know natives spouted from the dirt into a human life form

[@mshafer1021]

Electric jaye rodriguez, LOL. They sprouted from Siberia across an ice sheet

[@tanitaindelicato5649]

Very ethnocentric comments. Maybe unaware that there is more than European epistemology and ontology. Figure it out and respect

[@neoniahazelwood9263]

She is a great speaker.

[@ashleigh411elizabeth]

How is the reporter being disrespectful all the speaker has to do is say we are not taking questions at this time thankyou. The speaker is the one who is being racist and making it a big deal.

[@ScoutMotto2011]

I heard more racism from that podium than I have in real life in the last month.

[@kosmickittie2368]

Totally unacceptable stupid journalists 😢

[@kalt4689]

I hope the Trumpsters ( racist colonists) will hear this. You’re a guest here! Go back wherever you came from should be their words, not yours!

[@nabilahalbert5589]

Yes. Yes. Yes. I. Love. These. Strong Powerful Wise. Woman. Continue. Speaking N Demanding Your Overdue Rights The. Struggle Continue. ( Aluta. Cuntania ) ! ! !

[@collijul8]

Exactly!!!

[@FRANKRICECOLD209]

AWESOME''

[@vernaabreaa414]

YESSS!!! Ahoo! Ahéhee' ❤︎ #nativepride

[@scottmichels14]

We are only here a few Winters America is dying Within why can't people respect the Native Americans they were here before anybody as my ancestors tell me go Native Americans tell the whites and the human beings what it is all about they don't have the spirit of the eagle the hawk or the coyote get off our land they promised one thing and that's to take our land and they're still doing it peace be with you

[@bladder1010]

Chugs.

[@sheldonsmall6751]

She had to speak in tongues to cast that demon out!!!

[@yessicalizeth98]

Got emm 👊👊 haha #Nativepride ❤