Andrea Landry
Freelance contributor
Andrea Landry is a mother, an Indigenous rights defender, a freelance writer and a life skills coach. She teaches for First Nations University in the Indigenous social work program. She is originally from Pays Plat First Nation in northern Ontario and currently resides on Treaty 6 Territory on Poundmaker Cree Nation in Saskatchewan.
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First Person
I hate alcohol, but it never made me stop loving my dad
Andrea Landry says her dad did the best he could in life, but he had his struggles. Those struggles taught her a powerful lesson after he left.
Canada -Saskatchewan |
Opinion
Meeting the world's Indigenous peoples changed how I saw colonialism — and Canada
'We can come together collectively, as Indigenous nations, and bring revolution to our own peoples.'
Canada 2017 |
Opinion
Coerced sterilizations are more than an attack on mothers; they're an attack on Indigenous nationhood
Reports to supposedly safeguard the wellbeing of Indigenous peoples — and more specifically, the wellbeing of Indigenous women — have been constructed for decades, with little progress. Columnist Andrea Landry worries that this one, on coerced tubal ligations at Saskatoon hospitals, will be no different.
Opinion |