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An organization representing about 2,500 Indigenous students is blasting the University of Saskatchewan’s “stale” reconciliation efforts, which it says have “yielded little practical results,” and is urging its members to stop participating in them.

In a statement released last week, which makes reference to tensions on campus in the wake of controversial verdicts in the trials of Gerald Stanley and Raymond Cormier, the Indigenous Students’ Council said it is “tired of being taken advantage of” and will no longer “toe the line” of reconciliation on campus.

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“We have not seen any real systemic change occur on campus. We are controlled, regulated and limited in our ability to govern and develop the solutions our Indigenous students need,” the ISC said in the unsigned statement.

The statement alleges that reconciliation is benefiting “individuals well embedded” in the university but not Indigenous students, and calls on its members to resign from administrative committees and councils.