Riley Yesno: Why absence and silence was so powerful at Daughters of the Vote
“Your seat is your power. By giving up your seat you’re giving up your power”.
Although many of my fellow delegates and I didn’t say a word during our protests earlier this week, I think our messages were certainly heard. The entire day leading up to the event in the House, I felt a deep and unrelenting unease. I could not shake the fact that this setting was the same one where legislation passed that put my grandparents in residential schools for a decade.This was where laws and policies meant to assimilate me and my community, like the Indian Act and the 1969 White Papers, have been upheld and proposed as a means to effectively erase Indigenous people from society.
Watching more and more brave and excited delegates exit the House, this was when Minister Monsef entered and told us that we had forfeited our power. I stood baffled, wondering how it was possible that we were watching the same scene unfold.
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