“Dakota and Lakota Elders, chiefs, councilors, and to all community members who are both here and watching back in their communities, it is both my duty and my humble honour, to be here today to turn the page of a dark chapter of our national story and to formally recognize and acknowledge the Dakota-Lakota as Aboriginal people of Canada with constitutionally protected rights and forming an essential part of our national story and fabric. Today, on behalf of the government of Canada, and all Canadians, we seek to begin to mend this injustice with three simple words…We are sorry.”
-Canada’s Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree
