{"id":4867,"date":"2025-06-17T16:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T16:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=4867"},"modified":"2025-06-17T16:49:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T16:49:02","slug":"canadian-indigenous-leader-says-he-was-filled-with-rage-before-intense-conversation-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=4867","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Indigenous leader says he was \u2018filled with rage\u2019 before \u2018intense\u2019 conversation with Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"66\" data-end=\"317\"><strong data-start=\"66\" data-end=\"94\">KANANASKIS, Alberta (AP)<\/strong> \u2014 Steven Crowchild, a Tsuut\u2019ina First Nation leader, said he was \u201cfilled with rage\u201d and nearly walked away before meeting Donald Trump at the G7 summit, citing the former U.S. president\u2019s role in global pain and suffering.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"319\" data-end=\"592\">Instead, after prayer and consulting his community, Crowchild chose to stay, greeting Trump in traditional regalia and engaging in a long, intense conversation about peace and protecting water. \u201cI almost didn\u2019t stay,\u201d he said. \u201cBut visibility is key and diplomacy matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"594\" data-end=\"857\">Speaking in his traditional language, Crowchild showed Trump treaty medals older than Canada, aiming to represent his people with honor and dignity. \u201cI spoke for my elders,\u201d he said, adding he also urged other world leaders to be good stewards of water and peace.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"859\" data-end=\"967\">Despite his feelings, Crowchild said, \u201cI choose peace. I stood taller than him as a proud Tsuut\u2019ina Isgiya.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANANASKIS, Alberta (AP) \u2014 Steven Crowchild, a Tsuut\u2019ina First Nation leader, said he was \u201cfilled with rage\u201d and nearly walked away before meeting Donald Trump at the G7 summit, citing the former U.S. president\u2019s role in global pain and suffering. Instead, after prayer and consulting his community, Crowchild chose to stay, greeting Trump in traditional&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=4867\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Canadian Indigenous leader says he was \u2018filled with rage\u2019 before \u2018intense\u2019 conversation with Trump&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4869,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions\/4869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}