SYILX OKANAGAN NATION TERRITORY – The Chiefs Executive Council of the Okanagan Nation Alliance is endorsing calls from the First Nations Leadership Council, for OneBC MLA, Dallas Brodie, to resign immediately.

Brodie stands accused of using public funds, inside and outside the BC legislature, to create and distribute racist and anti-Indigenous materials, including a recent image that was taken on Penticton Indian Band land. In the image, Brodie holds a sign that says, “Zero Bodies” while standing in front of a larger sign that references the 215 suspected unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School site.

Chief Gabriel of the Penticton Indian Band and Tribal Chair Clarence Louie of the ONA, issued the following statement:

“We condemn the Indian Residential School denialism and anti-Indigenous racist rhetoric of Dallas Brodie, and we call for her immediate resignation.

“MLA Brodie owes our Elders and Indian Residential School survivors an apology. She owes the voters of Vancouver-Quilchena an apology. She owes all British Columbians an apology for her hateful and divisive rhetoric, which belongs in the dustbin of history, not the halls of the BC legislature.

“As we have said before, political leaders who hold and espouse racist and backward views, are disqualified from public service, as such views and comments are hateful and hurtful to Indigenous people, and put at risk the government-to-government relationship with Indigenous Nations on whose land this province depends.”

Syilx Okanagan Nation Chiefs Endorse Calls for Immediate Resignation of OneBC MLA Dallas Brodie

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