Mount A Indigenous student support group on how to help Mi’kmaw fishers
Mount Allison president Jean-Paul Boudreau and the Mount Allison Students’ Union have released statements condemning the anti-Indigenous violence in Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia).
Second year voice student and Indigenous student support group (ISSG) secretary/treasurer Rowan White says the statements are appreciated, but more work needs to be done.
White, who is from the Qalipu Nation of Ktaqm’kuk in Mi’kma’ki, visited the Saulnierville wharf with the ISSG and Divest Mount A volunteers to provide support.
RW: So our group has been going down in person to help organize move supplies, document what’s going on. We’ve also been gathering financial donations, donations of physical goods and storing them and bringing them down, as well as pressuring both the student union and university administration to put out statements and in support, both of which have been done.
MC: Do you have any thoughts about either of those statements?
RW: I was super touched that we are the first university and the first student union to actually make a public declaration about what is currently going on all through Nova Scotia. So I was really proud. The student union has been working directly with us to be super, super helpful and we really appreciate that. And of course, there’s always things to be done. But it’s a great first step.
MC: What can those who live on the unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq people do to support the fishers at the moment?… Continue