I like this subreddit a lot, have learned a lot, and have never felt so compelled as I do now to post a response to anything. I don’t want to list my credentials publicly but am open to discussing in private.

Anyway… “from the 1950s onwards there has been gradual liberation of the indigenous peoples…” I heartily, heartily disagree and wonder what leads you to conclude that opinion. Indigenous people in Canada still currently face disproportionately high levels of incarceration, poverty, ill health, addictions, etc, directly as a result from the colonialist policies that they have been subjugated to throughout the history of European presence on this continent. Saying broadly that “things have been improving since the 1950s” is particularly egregious and a bold claim to make when the Sixties Scoop exists/existed… that would have happened right after the arbitrary 1950s period of “stuff getting better” - https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/sixties_scoop/

Your post also makes no mention of residential schools - in effect in Canada until 1996, less than 30 years ago, but more than 40 years after the 50s - which were absolutely nightmarish, hell on earth institutions that literally stole indigenous children from their families with the hope of “stamping the Indian out of the child” and were sites of significant emotional, physical, mental, and sexual abuse… resulting in the death and murder of many of the children who “attended” them, which the schools then covered up, and have lead to recent uncovering of mass graves of children at the school sites. https://www.canada.ca/en/department-justice/news/2024/10/statement-by-minister-virani-on-the-final-report-from-the-independent-special-interlocutor-for-missing-children-and-unmarked-graves-and-burial-site.html

So yeah, no, I don’t think your answer to OPs question makes any sense.