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[lesorciercanadien]

Our Path to Healing and Reconciliation

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For today is Truth and Reconciliation Day in Canada, many folks have the day off. I hope for people to take some time today to read on residential school testimonies, reflect on the children lost and the survivors left to deal with the scars, and their children who feel the intergenerational trauma.

We are weaker when we don’t let others shine in their brilliant cultures and wisdoms, and no country is strong without the active involvement and respectful considerations of the needs and worldviews of Indigenous, Métis, and Inuit peoples.

As I can’t do extended trips or walks outside right now, I’m taking some time to listen to Gord Downie’s Secret Path album, and choosing from one of the titles I have in my library.

I have had the honor of meeting both Stephen Kakfwi (Northern Dene, former premier of the NorthWest Territories/former National Chief of the Dene Nation, representing Chiefs of Treaties 8 and 11, always an activist for his homeland and people, and a residential school survivor) and his wife Dr. Marie Wilson (former Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner) during my congregation’s reconciliation service. Kakfwi was warm and full of good humor, and we talked a bit of his home Fort Good Hope, North West Territories, and the beauty of our homes in the boreal forests. It was too short a meeting to get in depth, but I was grateful to have met him. Dr. Wilson was an amazing presence, and if I could have an extended tea with them, I’d adore every second. Seeing my sash, she asked if I was an impacted family member. I honestly told her no, but as a French Canadian, it’s important for me to be involved. While I may have distant ancestors, it’s my present job to listen to their descendants and reach out and connect respectfully.

Dr. Wilson’s book is a must-read for those that want a perspective on how to go about reconciliation as an obligation and gift. Her chapter, Part VI: Humility - Quebec struck hard with me as a folk practitioner and how I go about understanding my maiden province’s history and impact on Indigenous peoples.

If you want to donate to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and adjacent projects, follow the link below!

https://nctr.ca/donate/

[alittlespacepwincess]

Photography Class

[protoslacker]

If you go out into a part of the bush you haven’t been before with an Elder, the Elder will often get you to stop on the trail and look back.  This is done so that if you get lost or separated, you’ll know the way back home. By “looking back” the hope is that one learns to recognize features of the specific and intricate features of the landscape. The path looks completely different on the way home because there is a different set of visual cues.  “Looking back” is something that is done to keep us safe and independent and literally connected to the landscape. Our Ancestors were very astute at reading landscapes.  So let’s recognize the value of this technique and apply this technique to the Canadian political landscape.   Let’s stop and take a look around and focus on those visual cues, not what settler governments are saying, but the evidence of what they’ve done.

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson in Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society (2012). Aambe! Maajaadaa! (What #IdleNoMore Means to Me)

[amphibialife]

Amphibia Holographic Sticker!

Pre-orders will be open till July 30th & all profits will be going to the Residential School Survivors Society (IRSSS) more info about it below the cut

Etsy Pre-Order Page

Below is more info on Residential Schools and the current events happening in Canada TW: residential schools, and indigenous genocide

On May 27 2021, 215 buried children were found in Kamloops B.C. On June 24, 751 unmarked graves were found near the previous location of a Residential School in Saskatchewan and 182 more in Cranbrook B.C on June 30

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/tk-eml%C3%BAps-te-secw%C3%A9pemc-215-children-former-kamloops-indian-residential-school-1.6043778

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/cowessess-marieval-indian-residential-school-news-1.6078375

The Roman Catholic Church ran most of the residential schools in Canada, and has yet to take responsibility for their actions. Canada was built upon Indigenous oppression & genocide, and continues to take advantage of colonization on stolen land.

https://www.facinghistory.org/stolen-lives-indigenous-peoples-canada-and-indian-residential-schools/chapter-3/role-churches

he IRSSS offers counselling support for those affected by the schools as well as cultural support and provides resources on the matter. I believe it is my duty as a Canadian settler living on stolen land to support these people and to spread awareness.

I also strongly encourage donating directly to the IRSSS

https://www.irsss.ca/

There is also the #IdleNoMore movement which calls for peaceful action towards the government’s violations of treaties and reconciliation between nations. Their website provides resources as well as more information on the movement.

https://idlenomore.ca/about-the-movement/

[icehockeygoaltendersthough]

Powerful Words from Montreal Canadians Goaltender Carey Price, a proud member of the Anahim Lake First Nation in BC 👏🏼

https://t.co/22exmXWwIZ

https://twitter.com/lnueypei/status/1218877678402535424?s=19

L'nuey PEI on Twitter

“Powerful Words from Montreal Canadians Goaltender Carey Price, a proud member of the Anahim Lake First Nation in BC 👏🏼”

[noopnoopsoup-tappedout]

I might look like a cracker but same Apu, same.

[jeannereames]

A Little Reminder....

I’m frankly disturbed by how much the news made of Trump’s choice of Tulsa on Juneteenth, and how damn little is being said about Trump’s choice of Mount Rushmore for his July 3rd fireworks extravaganza. Once again, NDN concerns are “not important enough to be news.”

Below, as a reminder. And for those unaware, not only is Mount Rushmore on STOLEN land, that stolen land is SACRED to the Lakota people. And while he’s there, his speech railed at people pulling down statues of Confederate heroes, and “defaming” national monuments? Meanwhile, he’s be fine with bulldozing burial grounds for pipelines and destroying native (natural) monuments.

Oh, wait, we’re not real Americans. We’re just the wild bunch of Injuns you stole the land from.

PLEASE do not forget RED lives too. American indigenous are killed by police at the same ridiculously high rates. And our women are *disappeared* on a regular basis.

[xanaddams]

We've been in this fight for the planet for so long, we don't even protest or wait for permission, we act. #directaction #indigenous #climatechange #idlenomore #n8v https://www.instagram.com/p/B22ihaOpLP6/?igshid=hik9jwvyhxo