DAY 1 (Monday, August 1, 2016):
Today was a memorable
day of mixed feelings and awareness.
Today was the first day back on the lands, sleeping in canvas tents
again like my childhood when mama would make the tents to keep us
sheltered. I am on Day one of a thirty
day healing journey.
The morning was being silly and having some fun...Sasquatch made an appearance hahaha...
It’s called the Red
Road to Healing and our journey is to look and resolve, come to terms with, and
release the crippling effects of Indian Residential School indoctrination which
has created a life of it’s own and continues to be unconsciously enforced
through the generations of our people.
Just like parenting skills and teachings are passed through the
generations…as Indigenous Peoples, these sacred teachings of our peoples have
been replaced by our oppressors and the genocide continues…we are a fractured
people!
This is Day one of decolonizing
my mind, heart, soul, and body…and recolonize back to our origin, as strong,
proud self sustaining sovereign Indigenous Peoples of our lands…
Today was getting
familiar with everyone, the lands, the animals and getting used to being and
sharing these spaces for the next thirty days…
We did a little
relaxation, learned to make some healthier meals over a camp fire with
healthier living foods (greens etc) and wild meat. We can Salad, Antelope Skewers, & Wild
Rice.
Then we moved onto
our next agenda, the Land – it continued to be our classroom and we walked the
land and learned of foods and medicines our people have known for thousands and
thousands of years like wild spinach, wild chia which is also flour, White
Popular has a sweet sap for our sugar and for those who know the Creation
Stories it helps with bone or wound repair, the White Popular was the tree
Creator used to make our bones. It’s
white powder is also used to protect our skin too. There are so many foods we can eat that non
Indigenous society calls “weeds” but there are no weeds on our lands, there is
only food and medicine…many medicines Western Society can not cure illnesses
but ours can, including prevent illnesses & keep us healthy.
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Later we connected
with the horse spirits and met our friends, allies etc.. for the next thirty
days… my partner’s name is Maverick, he is about 12 years old and a beautiful
gentle spirited horse but I can see some challenging spunk in him, he was
testing me today (hahaha) but we soon became friends. I look forward to getting on him tomorrow and
riding like I did when I was a teen…I so miss horses. They always remind me of my dad and brother,
the days of rodeos, my grandparent’s family farm, and all the good times.
Today, I’m so
grateful for this opportunity to commit and invest in Shannon and my
healing. I was in a very toxic
environment created by the oppressors…an environment our people are unconsciously
enforcing… that corrupt Indian Act system…but today, I am on a different
journey and reconnecting to the laws of our people… on the land, taking in the
water, breathing the air, and absorbing the sun…these are the real laws and the
laws of treaty too…the ‘True Spirit and Intent” of Creation!
PS: These are my raw
journals & as real as they will get in the moment I am feeling or
experiencing them…they are mine, no one else’s, my perceptions, my journey;
therefore, free of other’s opinions, unless you are in my head, heart, body,
& soul! Humbled respect!
Kinanâskomtinanawaw
wâpimahihkan
(White Wolf)
1 comment:
Love it. I think you'll find solutions for us once your done
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