On the Art of Stealing Human Rights

These extracts are from a speech given by Gerry Gambill at a conference on human rights at Tobique Reserve in New Brunswick. In this speech, he warned Indigenous people about how this society goes about taking away their human rights.

Can you guess what year this speech was given? Read on and we’ll tell you at the end.

^{Note: The speech was given at a time when the word “Indian” was used by government to refer to Indigenous people and it was common to default pronouns to he (him/his).}