But the panel faced backlash before it even started: Then-Missisquoi chief Richard Menard wrote a letter to Vermont legislators asking them to speak out against the event and branding its intentions problematic and anti-Indigenous.

Source: https://vtdigger.org/2023/11/14/a-false-narrative-abenaki-leaders-dispute-the-legitimacy-of-vermonts-state-recognized-tribes/

It also means changing the hearts and mind of Catholics and dismantling anti-Indigenous structural racism — work that cannot and should not rely on Indigenous people.

Source: https://www.chroniclejournal.com/news/national/a-long-journey-reconciliation-happening-day-by-day-one-year-after-popes-apology/article_68af55fa-ad10-55e3-b2f9-301f86a919d2.html