At the NBA All-Star Game in Salt Lake City, Canadian R&B star Jully Black made a statement to her country, singing “O Canada! Our home on native land,” instead of the original lyric “our home and native land.”This prompted the hashtag #ourhomeONnativeland to trend on Twitter and subsequently sparked a national conversation about Indigenous rights. According to the senate statement from 2018, the last official change to Canada’s national anthem was to make the lyrics gender-neutral. Jay Soule, an artist also known as Chippewar noted that the phrase “on native land” isn’t new. When Black changed the lyrics to the anthem at the All-Star Game, Soule commented that “seeing it being sung on a national stage is just fantastic.”The events of the All-Star Game have shone a light on the importance of recognizing Indigenous peoples.

Source: National Post February 22, 2023 03:44 UTC