Canada pledges $31.5 billion over abuse of Indigenous children
A Red Cloud Indian School student holds an orange T-shirt at an assembly for Orange Shirt Day on Sept. 30, 2021, in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. Students and teachers wore orange in solidarity with Indigenous children in Canada and the US of past generations who suffered cultural loss, family separation and sometimes abuse and neglect.
Canada’s government has pledged to award a $31.5 billion settlement to families in order to begin to repair the damages by a discriminatory system that has removed tens of thousands of children from their parents over the decades. And, scientists in South Africa have made major discoveries about the behavior of the omicron variant, but most of the continent continues to lack vaccine access. We hear from the director of Africa’s Center for Disease Control on lessons learned so far from Africa. Plus, Preet Chandi is the first woman of color to complete a solo, unaided trek to the South Pole. The British Sikh army officer said she braved extreme conditions, in part, to be a role model to other Asian women and people of color.
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