Why does this sense of belonging matter? Ratt is mixed — his mother is Indigenous and his father is white with various ties to European ancestry — and he struggles to embrace his Indigenous identity . "This growing feeling that I didn't belong was something I never confessed to my friends, my family, or the people I dated," he says. And when both halves of my background didn't bring any sense of belonging … I was a drifter in a very grey area," says Ratt. If this question of identity and belonging resonates with you, we want to hear from you.

Source: CBC News March 27, 2021 00:00 UTC