Tanya Kappo
Tanya Kappo is a citizen of the Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation in Treaty 8 territory. She is a lawyer in Edmonton working with residential school survivors and a mother to three children.
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Opinion
Stephen Harper's comments on missing, murdered aboriginal women show 'lack of respect'
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's comment that a national inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women is not high on the government's radar, made during an interview with the CBC's Peter Mansbridge, shows a disregard and lack of respect for indigenous people, says Tanya Kappo.
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Blog
1700 unfinished pairs of moccasins memorialize the missing and murdered
Walking With Our Sisters is ceremony, it is art, and it is a memorial, says Tanya Kappo. It has already had a profound spiritual impact on many. 1724 pairs of vamps were submitted from around the world — each pair representative of a missing or murdered Indigenous woman or girl in Canada.
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