Reflecting On Losing a Matriarch
Losing a grandparent, or any family member is painful in any culture. What adds even more pain to our loss coincides with an anxiety that...
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Aug 26, 2022
5 Steps to Start Your Decolonization Journey
Decolonizing your mind, heart and Spirit is a long journey when colonial institutions have fought hard to ingrain their values and beliefs..
Aug 26, 2022
Call Us By Our Names - Which Names Are Appropriate and Inappropriate to Call Indigenous Peoples
Names are tricky, and confusing for a lot of people because what was acceptable one moment is offensive the next, right? Well, it's more...
Aug 26, 2022
What is Reconciliation to You?
I once heard someone say that racism isn't just a dark chapter in Canadian history, it's the entire plotline. As a writer, that really...
Aug 17, 2022
The Land Still Knows Your Name
So many of us have been removed from the Land, and this removal continues to this day in many forms. For many, it's as forceful as it's...
Aug 17, 2022
Why Language Revitalization is Crucial to Self-Determination and Indigenization
Not many people stop and think about the language they speak and how it shapes their view of the world, but you can actually tell a lot...
Aug 17, 2022
Sharing Turtle Island and Making Space for Both Indigenous and Settler Grief During Reconciliation
In many of our cultures, our peoples possess stories and prophecies that have been passed down, predating contact, warning us that we...
Aug 17, 2022
Healing Our Communities: Could Sharing Our Trauma Boxes Be the Key to Reconciliation and Healing
In Indigenous cultures, mental health was never something to be ashamed of but rather something that was actively taken care of as part of..
Aug 17, 2022
Cultural Burns: How Indigenous Peoples Use Fire to Heal and Protect the Land
To those who are familiar with Fire management practices, the concept of a cultural burn may be relatively known to you under the guise of..
Aug 17, 2022
Two-Eyed Seeing and Validating Indigenous Knowledge
When I was young, my brother Adam and I would play memory games that would last hours...
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