Look to the Mountain!
<p>As an Indigenous womyn I have lived a tumultuos life ever since I found out about the atrocities rendered against our people since the colonization of North America from reading at 13 the book “Bury my heart at wounded knee”, though not historically correct from an Indigenous perspective as it was written by a settler, it still impacted my heart and mind til this day. All I ever wanted was to be an activist, a member of the Red Power movement and the American Indian Movement. Settler society has constantly looked at conditions of our nations, soon to be reserves, referring in specific to the differences in our housing, child rearing, family structure, the accumulation of stuff (hoarding as it is referred to in settler society) and our spirituality and culture always in comparison to a ‘mainstream’ society we did not invite and who more or less, ran us over like the trains and roads they ran in all directions through our villages. Expecting us to literally lay down and die. In Mr. Dave Elliott’s book, ‘Saltwater People”the settlers were described as ‘thieves and vagabonds’ who were arriving here hoping for a better life and willing to ‘take the best for themselves’.</p>
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