That's exactly what I'm saying.
I went through the whole system of education, foster care, and residential school, and what I learned to do through all of that to survive emotionally and feel some kind of dignity was to internalize that racism. I hated being aboriginal. I was ashamed of aboriginal people. I missed all the teachings from my grandmother. Thank goodness there's a spiritual way you can get all the teachings. So although we're changing some of that, we're still not changing the bigger system.
While I agree with my sister here, Lyda, who talks about needing community healing, I also think service providers need the same healing. They're born into the same system. There's this idea that they're appointed to fix us, but if they're all acknowledging that aboriginal people are still under a colonial, oppressive system, then they're part of it. They're either colonized or the colonizer.
I think that in order to have really effective programs there needs to be a joint healing process for service providers and communities. Otherwise you're just going to perpetuate a different name for the same systemic oppression.