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Na’kuset

@nakuset.bsky.social

Cree, 60’s scoop survivor,executive director, advocate for Indigenous women and children in MTL.

571 Followers  |  233 Following  |  26 Posts  |  Joined: 14.11.2024  |  1.542

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Today, I AM MY NAME is out in the world. The book is the true story of my experience during the 60’s scoop
My deepest gratitude to my co author, Judith Henderson, Knopf young readers.
And to Onedove, whose art brings tenderness and light to each page.

www.strongnations.com/store/12177/...

18.10.2025 22:22 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Join us on September 30th for our Every Child Matters March. Thrilled to partner with POPMontreal @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social ,Alcoa and ResilienceMTL
Speakers include Kevin Deer, EllenGabriel, and performer @
LeonardSumner. 🙏donate to ResilienceMTL

12.09.2025 12:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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On Canada Day, let’s reflect on this painting by Kent Monkman.

01.07.2025 11:10 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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It’s a beautiful day to be Indigenous!! Thrilled to host the National Indigenous People’s Day concert with Irene Qavavauq and Fay Virginia Desjarlais at Cabot 🔲! We have an excellent line up! Join us!! HUGE thank you to @popmontreal 💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻

21.06.2025 10:40 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

🙏@michele_audette I respectfully decline the King Charles III Coronation Medal. As an Indigenous woman, I can’t accept an award tied to the Crown while we fight for truth, justice and healing for the children lost to residential schools. #Decolonize #indigenousRights

19.06.2025 15:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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So thrilled to partner again with POP Montreal for National Indigenous Peoples Day! A free concert at Cabot 🔲!

02.06.2025 22:54 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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#concordia50 #indigenouswomen #indigenousrights | Concordia Alumni “Be patient and persistent. Change takes time." 🧡 Meet Nakuset, BA 00, a fierce supporter of Indigenous peoples and this week's Great Concordian. #Concordia50 A Sixties Scoop survivor, Na’ku...

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10.04.2025 12:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thank you all who braved the cold to honour MMIWG2S+ on Feb 14, 2025

17.02.2025 22:33 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Currently in Montreal🌨️❄️

16.02.2025 23:22 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Buffy Sainte-Marie's Order of Canada terminated by Governor General | CBC News The federal government's official publication posted the notice Friday evening, indicating that Governor General Mary Simon ordered the termination of Sainte-Marie's appointment on Jan. 3.

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Trudeau asks Indigenous leaders in Canada for help standing up to Trump | CBC News National Indigenous leaders in Canada say the prime minister is asking them to lobby their counterparts in the United States as part of the pushback against president-elect Donald Trump’s tariff threa...

Really?! Because you’ve proven yourself on implementing the TRC’s calls to action, MMIW calls to Justice, etc…(not)😡

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18.01.2025 15:26 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Toronto opens Spirit Garden, a space for residential school survivors, in Nathan Phillips Square | CBC News The Spirit Garden is a 1,918 sq/m space in downtown Toronto dedicated to residential school survivors and their families. It's a response to the Truth and Reconciliation’s Call to Action 82 which call...

www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

01.01.2025 23:35 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Toronto man creates tiny mobile homes to help unhoused people escape the cold | CBC News Tired of watching people sleeping outside in the cold, a Toronto man is building tiny mobile homes attached to bicycles to give temporary relief to those who are unhoused

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29.12.2024 01:13 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Residential school survivors' group on verge of shutdown amid lack of funding from Canada | CBC News A residential school survivors' group says it will have to close its doors at the end of the month unless it receives a federal funding decision. Laura Arndt, lead at the Survivors' Secretariat in sou...

Unacceptable😡

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20.12.2024 13:47 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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'He sparkles': How Billy Merasty brings lightness to Winnipeg-shot drama Aberdeen | CBC News These days, if you see Billy Merasty on a Winnipeg street, you’re most likely to recognize him as Roger Laughingstick, the low-key zany deejay spinning platters that matter for the Grouse Lake reserva...

Can’t wait to see this!!

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15.12.2024 12:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Assembly of First Nations takes Trudeau to task over racism, rights and reconciliation | CBC News Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was pressed on everything from racism in policing, broken promises from 2015 and a lack of consultation on key pieces of proposed legislation at the Assembly of First Nations annual winter meeting in Ottawa Thursday.

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06.12.2024 14:21 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Please consider the NWSM on Giving Tuesday 🙏

03.12.2024 11:01 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Special interlocutor still waiting for Canada's response to report on disappeared residential school children | CBC News Kimberly Murray says she's received no word from Canada a month after she hand-delivered her two-volume final report in Gatineau, Que., finding that children who died and were buried at Indian residential schools were victims of a crime against humanity.

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29.11.2024 20:13 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Justice for Twins March
🗓 Date: November 30th, 2024, 1:00pm
📍 Location: Police Station 12, Westmount, Montreal
✊ Purpose: March Against Police Brutality and Demand Systemic Change

29.11.2024 02:22 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Coming soon to Canada, a Permanent Peoples Tribunal on Missing Indigenous Children and Unmarked Graves.

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Ottawa to compensate Inuit in Nunavik for mass sled dog slaughter | CBC News Ottawa will offer financial compensation to Inuit in Nunavik for the devastation caused by the mass slaughter of their sled dogs, the Crown-Indigenous relations minister tells CBC News.

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17.11.2024 10:07 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Montreal city councillors table motion to declare state of emergency on homelessness A pair of independent Montreal city councillors have tabled a motion to get the city to declare a state of emergency on homelessness next week. The motion calls on the city to usher in a host of measures including requisitioning private accommodation spaces to shelter the unhoused before winter comes and allocating more resources to […]

It’s about time, Montreal!

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17.11.2024 00:37 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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All smiles and in good company at the final OSI National Gathering on Unmarked Burials with Autumn Godwin and Christa Big Canoe🥰(October 29)

16.11.2024 00:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Unhoused man behind assault case against Montreal cop dies before trial Johnny Inukpak Tukalak, 35, died in early November of a presumed overdose. The case against a cop charged with assaulting him will proceed.

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15.11.2024 01:26 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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