Some might say that getting rid of the Act will be like moving out of the frying pan and into the fire, as though this is a bad thing. But I don’t agree. We can also think about fire as a new opportunity. In Kwak’wala we have the term “i’tusto,” which means “to rise again.” Getting rid of the Indian Act will give First Nations, and Canada the nation state, the opportunity to rise again to be better and to be stronger.
