Generally, once people become aware of Indigenous issues in a clear sense, the first question is “how can I help”? Having faced this question so many times with only vague answers in my head, I have thought a lot about how best to answer this question with something concrete. After Read more…
To hear non-Indigenous people tell it, we’ve been teetering on the edge of extinction since not too long after Contact. That narrative hasn’t changed much over the years, though the cause of our cultural and perhaps even physical demise has varied somewhat in the details. There have been moments of Read more…
When it comes to the many challenges that aboriginal peoples face here in Canada, I find I have to strike a balance between identifying those problems and trying to come up with solutions for them. Spending too much time on either of those things and I get mixed up, ungrounded. Read more…
napatêhkasikan cî ahpô wîhkihkasikan? Pie, or cake? Answering “both” is of course understandable, but I like to think that just as some people are ‘dog’ people while others are ‘cat’ people, some of us will take a pie over a cake any day. The harvest season here in Quebec is Read more…
In the Language and Culture Links section of this blog I used to link to a Cree Family Unit site that I stumbled across years ago. Unfortunately it is no longer available, and the site domain which is saskschools.ca has been taken over by some spam site. (I’m keeping the Read more…