United States, Canada and New Zealand share their Indigenous rights success stories as Australia contemplates a new way forward after the Voice referendum.
With a Voice to Parliament off the table, a question lingering in the minds of many First Nations peoples and allies is: Where do we go from here?It was an outcome that campaigners and critics warned could damage our nation's reputation globally and cruel our reconciliation efforts to date.
"If we're not acknowledging the truth and making amends to correct the way Indigenous people have been treated in their own lands, then I think it feels stalled, even from way over here," she said.In 2007, the Canadian government established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to hear the traumatic stories of survivors who were torn from their families and placed into Indian Residential Schools right up until the late 1990s.
"The Truth and Reconciliation Commission brought awareness to the consciousness of Canada, even to those that are opposed to Indigenous people for whatever reason," she said. It was there that these founding members established a representative body that still stands today as the oldest and largest of its kind.Yancey Orr, an American Indian citizen of the Potawatomi nation, says the Congress was established to be a unified voice to represent tribes.
"American Indians said, 'How can we participate to make this act better and to encourage people to vote for this legislation?'" Dr Orr said. Back in 2010, Australia had a similar organisation set up by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It was called the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples.
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