First Nation chooses affluent Vancouver launch pad to reform indigenous child welfare
Solomon Reece spent a decade in Vancouver before being elected as a councillor to the Key First Nation in Saskatchewan last year.
Other children of the nation have been taken from their families and placed in government care, including Noelle O’Soup, who at 13 disappeared from a B.C. group home only to be found dead a year later. Chief Clinton Key said a big step in mending their community is reforming a system that sees many First Nations children taken from their families.
Reece said collaboration between First Nations and provincial governments is paramount to reforming a system that has seen many Indigenous children die in care, while leaving families and their communities with “no answers.” The letter outlined the nation’s grave concerns about the B.C. government’s inaction on the teen’s disappearance and death, and calls on the government to address systemic failures that compromised the girl’s safety and her family’s access to information.
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