I am an Indigenous woman from small town Vancouver Island. As a Métis child in a white settler state, I think I was programmed genetically with the instinct to flee. My life was accompanied with the knowing that I had been born in the wrong place, apart from something significant, a small town where life […]
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Writing this book was cathartic for me. I felt a great release at being able to expose Canada’s history of nuclear colonialism, the extraction of Uranium for NWT and Saskatchewan, the harm done to Indigenous people. My family’s history has links to the cold war, to health issues created by radiation and toxicity. High rates
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As I grew older, I become more passionate about writing. Creating compelling narratives that integrate life experience, poignant moments, indignation and hopes for a better world… bring thoughts to life. I invite in pain, humour, synchronicity, and all that is delicious into the mix! I am inspired by love, travel, personal and political resistance and
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Indigenous people have long been talking about the violence they experienced, and witnessed, in the prison camp for Indigenous children, euphemistically referred to as ‘residential schools.’ The problem was that Canada wasn’t listening. For a long while, Indigenous folks were ‘gaslit’ while mainstream Canada minimized their suffering and asked ‘when are you going to get
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