“We need these survivors who are in recovery to help our people. We need #FirstNation counsellors and workers with experience firsthand in #recovery, relapse, the use of AA, NA, traditional and cultural #healing to give our future generations hope.”

#Indigenous #addictions

https://www.windspeaker.com/under-northern-sky-xavier-kataquapit/road-recovery

Generations of gardeners regenerating the soil of sovereignty in Moose Cree First Nation: An account of community and research collaboration

#Indigenous #FirstNation #FoodSecurity #FoodSovereignty #Gardening #FoodSustainability #CommunityBased #ParticipatoryResearch #ActionResearch #Resurgence

#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/637

Truly splendid book

Five little indians by
Michelle Good

Children of different nations, taken from their parents by the candian government
And raised in a mission under hardship

Thawing out frozen wild #salmon to butterfly before cooking them over the fire.
The oceanspray branches that we stripped bark off from yesterday, are soaking under the 5 fish.

Beau working with Tyler, from #Esquimalt #FirstNation - crafting the maple branches for day 2 of men's group healing event. These will be used to mount the salmon we will be cooking over the fire this morning.
Beau & I are heading out to meet Tyler soon to build fire, butterfly & mount the salmon & other related preparation work.

It's a gorgeous day in Esquimalt & #Songhees territories. Sunny & warm morning!

"It must have been a lonely moment for Uncle Mark, a Bunurong and Gunditjmara man, but this was surely not the first time he'd had to stare down prejudice and racism." - Bridget Brennan

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-25/anzac-day-uncle-mark-black-diggers-neo-nazi-heckling/105215590?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web

I am a history teacher from Switzerland trying to find (text) books about American Native history suitable for teenagers. I am not the right person to put together all the different pieces of history I find online. This there anything, Native people would recommend?
(Please repost for wider spread)
#NativeAmerican #TurtleIsland #FirstNation

Gorgeous early evening in #KulleetBay yesterday.
Seen from the beach at the rez.
#Stzuminus #FirstNation territory stretches over 1,200 hectares which includes four reserves; Say-la-quas 10, Squaw-hay-one 11, Oyster Bay 12, and Chemainus 13.
Stz’uminus First Nation members speak Hul’qumi’num.
The Stzʼuminus are well-known for their war canoes. The vessels can range from 19 to 52 feet long. They are made of cedar and hand carved.

#dei #Racism #trump #politics #codebreakers #navajo #alt #firstnation
Heather Cox Richardson Navajo Code Breakers,Medalofhonor #arlington

#CPPotD Canadian Politics Poll of the Day - Mark Carney Goes to Europe Edition!

I have been supportive of talk of Canada joining the EU, but I admit, I feel a little... conflicted.. about this quotable quote from PM Mark Carney today alongside President Macron.

What was your reaction to Carney saying we are "The most European of Non-European Countries”?

CBC: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-arrives-in-uk-1.7485534
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #EU #Indigenous #FirstNation #MarkCarney

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-arrives-in-uk-1.7485534

The Concept Of Indigenous GIS
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Reading a paper (http://alturl.com/8wte5), they used the specific term ‘Indigenous GIS’ – and I found this intriguing!
As I read it, spatial data collection and analysis was done with a focus on how a tribe or social group might ‘see’ the data, including spatiotemporal....
I look forward to finding out more about what others are working on! – so PLEASE feel free to share any examples that you might have…
#GIS #spatial #mapping #indigenous #IndigineousGIS #FirstNation #perspective #cultural #social #naturalresources #archaeology #publicsafety #socialservices #planning #design #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #mapping #cartography #usecase #practical #pragamatic #resultsdriven #focused##

#Crow (Gibbous) Moon rising over the northern skies

A #FirstNation Creation story from #Canada when Crow created the world.

https://poetryisjustawesome.com/2015/01/18/how-the-world-began-the-story-of-crow-indigenous-creation-story-as-told-by-angela-sidney/

#Snuneymuxw #FirstNation members favour a $42-million offer from federal government to settle the Crown's breach-of-contract failing to protect land along #Nanaimo River.

Snuneymuxw nation has aimed at a settlement for more than 20 yrs. Their 'Teytexen Village Specific Claim' in 2001 - breach of Sarlequnn Treaty between Snuneymuxw & the Crown in 1854.

https://www.nanaimobulletin.com/local-news/nearly-100-per-cent-of-snuneymuxw-first-nation-favour-42m-land-claim-7858147

I'll be calling #KaatzAdventures on Monday to ask about a double kayak rental so me & Ojistoh can get to a really nice boat access only spot. We want have a fire & do some drumming ceremony there. She has never been there & I haven't been there in almost 20 years.

Kaatza Adventures is owned and operated by #Tsuubaaasatx #FirstNation - formerly known as #LakeCowichan First Nation.

They also host #IndigenousBeading workshops in the Summer.
https://www.kaatzaadventures.com/workshops

IMPORTANT Please Read and Boost
Application DEADLINE MARCH 31, 2025
Healing Fund Provides up to $70,000 to Survivors of Forced and Coerced Sterilization

"it’s estimated that at least 15,000 Indigenous women and girls were pressured, coerced or forced to undergo tubal ligation since the 1890s, although better data is needed because many Indigenous people who have experienced forced sterilization are unaware they have been a victim of systemic racism."

#Canada #Indigenous #Racism #FirstNation

https://thetyee.ca/Presents/2025/02/13/Survivors-Circle-Reproductive-Justice-Healing-Fund/

My personal #books #ReadingGoal this year is to find & read every book that Richard Wagamese wrote. I have read 3 of his books so far & loved them. He's one of my fave #Indigenous authors in #Canada.

Richard Wagamese was one of Canada’s foremost #IndigenousAuthors & esteemed public speaker & #storyteller. A professional writer since 1979, he was a newspaper columnist & reporter, radio & television broadcaster & producer, documentary producer & author of 14 titles from various #Canadian publishers.

He was a success in every genre of writing he tried. An #Ojibway from the #Wabaseemoong #FirstNation in Northwestern #Ontario, he became the first #NativeCanadian to win a National Newspaper Award for Column Writing in 1991. He won the Alberta Writers Guild Best Novel Award for his debut novel, Keeper’n Me in 1994 & the Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction for his third novel Dream Wheels, in 2007. One Native Life was one of The Globe & Mail’s 100 Best Books of 2008 & One Story, One Song was awarded the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature in 2011.

Indian Horse, the feature film, is based on his book of the same title.

If you haven't read any of his books yet, I highly recommend finding them at your local library