INAC (Aboriginal Affairs) is busy patting itself on the back for solving all of Attawapiskat’s problems. To hear them tell it, Jacques Marion was a veritable hero, swooping into Attawapiskat in the nick of time, narrowly averting disaster. INAC is magnanimously withdrawing its Third Party Manager, but shouldn’t hold its breath for any thanks from…
Category: Culture
Feel like celebrating!
There are a lot of things I could get pissed off about (say no to the speedo!), but I think other people have those conversations under control, and there are some things I just want to celebrate. A Tribe Called Red If you haven’t yet downloaded A Tribe Called Red’s debut album (and if possible…
Language, culture, and Two-Spirit identity.
I am a huge language geek. As in, I’m a little obsessed with language and how it relates to culture, to identity, to understanding the world around you. If you speak another language, or have even tried to learn another language, you realize pretty early on that although you might be using a comparable term…
Community. It isn’t just a word, it is a need.
Living in an urban setting is incredibly stressful for me sometimes. It is noisy. It is big. It smells. I am surrounded by people who do not know me, who do not know my family, who are strangers with no connections to myself or my home community. I sometimes feel as though my daughters and…
Ruby’s Story
Today, I’d like to present to you something a little different; an interview of sorts. A while ago, a comment on one of my blog posts really caught my attention. In it, a mother was describing an experience her young daughter had at school, and that brief description had such a powerful impact on me…