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Indigenous Human Rights
The Indigenous Human Rights podcast is produced by Pro Bono Students Canada's Indigenous Human Rights Program. We're a group of law students shining a light on the experiences of Indigenous people at human rights tribunals across Canada. Listen and learn what it's really like to fight for your rights in the colonial legal system. Our podcast is sponsored by Thomson Reuters, PBSC's National Research Partner.
Indigenous Human Rights
Crystal Smith: A mother's fight to protect the right to smudge
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Pro Bono Students Canada
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Season 1
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Episode 2
In our second episode, we talk to Crystal Smith, a member of the Tsimshian and Haisla Nations and a mother, artist, activist, and teacher. She tells us about the time her landlord tried to evict her for smudging in her apartment with her children, and the long road she travelled to fight for her family's cultural rights. Crystal won her case at the BC Human Rights Tribunal in 2020, paving the way for a better future for her kids and many others.
Discussed: children and youth, smudging, human rights, discrimination, cultural rights, colonial legal system, Indigenous laws.
Music: Ross Bugden, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.