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Tanya Kappo
Tanya Kappo (Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation, Cree) is an Indigenous rights activist. She is one of the four women who co-founded Idle No More and was briefly the manager of community relations for National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Canada's National Public Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Early life and education Kappo is from the Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation in Treaty 8, Treaty 8 Territory and was raised on the Northwestern Alberta Reserve in Sturgeon Lake First Nation, Sturgeon Lake. Her father was Harold Cardinal, author of ''The Red Paper''. She graduated the University of Manitoba with a Juris Doctor, J.D. in 2012. Activism and career Kappo is one of the four women who co-founded the Idle No More movement in November 2012. Kappo described the impetus for founding the movement as "the legislation facing First Nations in Canada, First Nations, primarily Bill C-45". Kappo co-edited the book ''The Winter We Danced: Voices From th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
