Category: Indigenous Literature
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#OneWord2019
I have been considering what word would best encapsulate my goals for 2019 for quite some time now, and one evening during Christmas break, as I sat contentedly knitting a shawl from Norwegian yarn brought to me as a gift from a friend, I had an epiphany. My word was right in front of me…
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Final Thoughts on Seven Fallen Feathers
It’s been awhile since I read and wrote parts 1 and 2 pertaining to this book for the #voicEDReads Summer Book Club. Summer is long over, but there’s a reason I have taken so long. I have spent the last couple months digesting everything that I read and I have come to the conclusion that I found…
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Thoughts on Seven Fallen Feathers Part 2
Hurting from the Before Mental Health and wellness supports need improvement throughout the province overall. Stigma, lack of education, long waiting lists and “band aid” solutions – including lip service without the necessary backing – riddle positive progress. The situation in Indigenous communities as shown through this chapter are even more abysmal. Isolation may be…
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Thoughts on Seven Fallen Feathers Part 1
Notes from a blind man. The community support and strength is inspiring. In contrast, the ignorance, cover-up, illogicality, and botched police work is reprehensible. Why Chanie Ran While I was aware that status rights were stripped from women who married white men and from those who moved off the reserve, I was astonished and angered…
