Tag: Turtle Island
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Continue Your Activism Beyond the Awareness Month
June is a big awareness month, with both Pride Month and Indigenous History Month occurring. Now that June has come to an end and the rainbow logos are disappearing (hey wordpress… my app literally changed back from rainbow to blue on the 30th, it wasn’t even July yet) and the spots on TV about Indigenous…
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Indigenous People’s Day
Today is National Indigenous People’s Day in Canada! Today is a celebration of the cultures, traditions, languages, and peoples that have lived on Turtle Island since time immemorial. It falls in June, Indigenous History Month, and I feel that this year’s Day falling on the Summer Solstice is probably particularly auspicious, as Indigenous people’s tell…
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Welcome to Canada, Time to Start Your Reconciliation
Major trigger warnings: genocide, racism, anti-Indigenous racism, sexual and physical assault If you don’t follow Canadian news you may not know, but late last week a mass grave was found at Kamloops Indian Residential School in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada; on the traditional and ancestral territory of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation; containing the bodies…
Laura Caeris - Thoughtful Millennial 