Indigenous hip-hop star on healing after school racism

As a student at St Matthew’s High School in Orléans, Cody Coyote was accustomed to taunts, to having his ponytail pulled, to being told he was ugly and that he didn’t belong.
But the word that cut deepest was “savage.”
“You hear that word? Stop using it,” Coyote told a crowd of about 150 mostly Indigenous students at a symposium Friday hosted by the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board.
“That was the word that stung. It was the word that made me