July 13, 2026 | Source: Indigenous Insider | by Brandi Morin

Tansi/Hello — You showed up. I am grateful.

I have 8,383 readers. 537 paying. That is amazing, but there’s still a big gap. And it’s the weight I carry every day.

These stories exist because I refuse to let them disappear. I have spent 15 years on the ground; I have built the trust and repertoire that barely exists anywhere else. Which is why you won’t find this kind of coverage, the way I do it, anywhere else.

I need you in this with me now more than any other time.

That’s what reconciliation looks like from where I’m standing.

Step into the fire with me.

I want to tell you about a report that came out this month, and then I want to take you somewhere. Because the two belong together.

Parks Canada put its name to something it has spent a hundred years avoiding: an internal review admitting that this country’s national parks — the ones on the postcards, the ones politicians stand in front of to talk about Canadian pride — were built through what the agency itself now calls “colonial injustices.” Beginning in the 1800s, the report says, Indigenous peoples were forced out of their homes to make way for parks, cut off from territories they had cared for since time immemorial, and banned from hunting and harvesting the land that had fed their families for generations. They weren’t consulted. They weren’t compensated. They were treated as something to be cleared out of the frame.