In thinking about what #IdleNoMore means to me, I think of my family, my home fire. First I am a mother and my family life is a responsibility I take seriously. As I have come to believe, women birth nations.
For far too long western colonial thought has brainwashed Indigenous people to believe that our People are inferior and that only men can make decisions pertaining to our livelihood, dismissing the role and significance of our women. Historically, Euro-white males observed how our women were consulted when making decisions and observed what I believe was viewed as a discrepancy and introduced what became a legacy of colonialist thought that has left a gap that widened with each generation. Unfortunately, as a result, we have remnant cultural and social organization that does not reflect nations, but fractionated Indigenous communities. When colonizers saw how divisive alcohol made our communities beginning with early…
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