The Rural Voice, 2019-03, Page 43future land sharing. Among Ontario’s
three farmers’ unions, the Ontario
Federation of Agriculture (OFA), the
Christian Farmers Federation of
Ontario (CFFO), and the National
Farmers Union-Ontario (NFU-O),
only the NFU-O, in conjunction with
its national partner, the National
Farmers Union (NFU), has policy
addressing Indigenous justice issues
including land claims.
“We know as farmers that we
need to be having difficult
conversations about how we have
come to the land on which we are
farming,” says Maureen Bostock, a
member of the NFU’s Indigenous
Solidarity Working Group.
Learning about Indigenous
peoples’ historical and sacred
bond with the land and the
history of violation of their sovereign
rights is a critically important place
to begin, Trivett says. He regularly
teaches courses for non-Indigenous
peoples on Indigenous history and
culture that delve into these issues.
People who have experienced the
teachings say they are liberating and
empowering and in no way induce
guilt or shame.
All farmers’ unions in Ontario
could talk to representative First
Nations’ organizations about what
policies would best support their
efforts to ensure their historical treaty
rights are respected and land claims
successfully settled.
Says Bostock: “Until we resolve
inequity, until everyone has access to
the same resources, and all of the
injustices have been corrected and
the land claims have been settled, our
work is not done.” ◊
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