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The colour of money / MI 235

ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:

Banking While Brown In B.C.. A Heiltsuk grandfather in British Columbia has recently launched a pair of human rights complaints almost a year after he and his young granddaughter were forced to stand outside a downtown Vancouver bank handcuffed for upwards of an hour. They’d been detained there by police after a bank manager suspected their Indian Status cards were fake and called 911 to report a potential fraud-in-progress. Now a transcript of that call has come to light, and  wouldn’t you know it, someone from Indian Affairs Canada may have  actually contributed to this mess.

Back at the roundtable with host/producer Rick Harp are Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies at York University Brock Pitawanakwat, and assistant professor with the University of Alberta’s department of  drama Ken Williams.

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LINKS REFERENCED / CONSULTED THIS EPISODE:

• Indigenous man and granddaughter handcuffed at Vancouver bank file human rights complaint against BMO, police: CBC News [TV story on YouTube]

• Seeing his 12-year-old granddaughter handcuffed sparked this  Indigenous man’s bid for justice. ‘It’s just got to be made right’: Toronto Star

• Heiltsuk Nation calls probe into arrest of Indigenous man at bank ‘woefully inadequate’: The Northern View [15 January 2020]

• Rosenberg Fund honors memory of Native activist [Mary Pitawanakwat]: Windspeaker

• Pitawanakwat v. Canada (Attorney General) [1994]: CanLII

• "Bank of Montreal Indigenous Banking": BMO

• "Is there a reason why [Indigenous Services Canada] is not also included in the Human Rights complaint?" [tweet]: @Coastal_AVE

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