After
attending last night’s INM gathering last night (From Idle No More to the
Indigenous Nationhood Movement) I think I need a Children of White Settler
support group. It was intense. After only a couple of hours listening to
personal stories, the emotional rollercoaster that moved me from sadness and
guilt, to a sense of relief, and back again and all around left me exhausted.
I didn’t know
that a trench 30 ft wide and 80 ft deep known as the St. Lawrence Seaway was
built on top of Taiaiake Alfred’s family homes, forcing thousands of years of
ancestral history to suddenly take a radical turn. Taiaiake (a Kahnawake Mohawk
and Professor of Indigenous Governance at UVic) reminded us how important it is
to protect the wilderness now, before it’s too late.
