ABSTRACT
This chapter uses an intersectional perspective to understand reconciliation as it relates to land, immigration, and anti-racist education. As immigrant women from the United States and Kenya, the authors recognize that privileges are bestowed upon newcomers to Canada that have been historically denied to many Indigenous peoples. The chapter uses intersectionality to examine their relations to land, social and economic practices, environment, and more-than-human beings, and how these relations can contribute to the process of reconciliation and solidarity with Indigenous peoples. Many immigrants come to Canada seeking the Canadian Dream, and many of those newcomers are willing and able to pursue that dream. Many immigrants do not see racism towards Indigenous peoples as affecting them because they are not Indigenous. Since the civil rights era in the United States and the election of a Black president, many people have “post-race” ideologies that reinforce the notion of meritocracy.
