text: How is being called a settler derogatory?  Acknowledging youre a settler descendant is understood as the part of the reconciliation process.  Acknowledging that we are 'settlers' serves to shift perspective; it is acknowledge the role of colonialism and outcomes for FNs.  One cant change what one does not acknowledge.  It doesn’t mean settler descendants are responsible for or should feel guilty about what they’re ancestors did. Guilt/ire helps settler descendants feel better, it does nothing for other people, it is not productive.  Acknowledging one’s settler descendant status does mean one, whether one likes it or not, benefited from and thus continue to benefit from the ills of our ancestors.  Acknowledging one’s settler descendant status means you want to move forward and help the disenfranchised/wronged; one is essentially committing to fight against further injustices.  It is fundamentally about, a step in, acknowledging the wrong done and developing a desire to understand.