How Far Is It to Muscowequan School?

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In </span><em style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>How Far is it to Muscowequan School?</em><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Nelson Bryksa tackles Canada's systemic racism. The book highlights his personal opinions of how immigrants to Canada were used to further racist policies of colonial governments. Drawing upon a significant personal experience he develops a narrative of how Canada's governments propagated a non-Indigenous national enclave of culturally desirable people who could support European empire-building nations that colonized North America-nations that brought supremacist attitudes that institutionalized racism in a Canadian society that has only paid lip service and inconsequential appeasement to non-Indigenous peoples' reconciliation.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Bryksa warns of insidious pressures put on society by those who promote racism and discriminatory practices to further their own self-interests. He puts forward an idea for the kind of reconciliatory step the sovereign nations of Canada might take to shift government policies from programs of appeasement to the decision-making partnership and shared governance that was envisioned by the Indigenous signers of the Treaties of Canada-the kind of governance not intended by colonial-minded governments.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Nelson Bryksa is a Canadian writer who lives in Regina Saskatchewan. He is a retired government policy analyst who worked with First Nation community-development corporations that distribute proceeds to First Nation communities and municipalities from SIGA casinos in Saskatchewan. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>How Far is it to Muscowequan School? </em><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is the author's personal promise to push back against the stigma of systemic racism that Indigenous peoples still have to endure and to support their rights guaranteed by the treaties.</span></p><p><br></p>