"what are we"
"what are we when we stop being spiritual enviromentalists?"
- d.rivers 1989-Present
Is that the basis for the very foundation our ansestors stayed true too. The creator showed them through the flood to loose that would lead to our peoples destruction. Yet as "Aboriginal Canadians" striving for colonial governance and capitalist job training we add to the destruction of our mother. It's bad enough the one we're shaking hands with (and like my nation, having an affair with) the goverment who's raping "our" mother but isn't it just sick that we, us, INDIANS are raping our own mother? How sick is that? Like seriously... I know that's harsh but...quite frankly, deal with it.
We drive our big SUV's and big trucks but at what expence. Where are the stelmexw of old that did everything to sustain the land. We are and never the "owners" of this land but stewards of mother temixw. The waste of everything from water to oil to energy. It all leads up to disaster. How many of our people even recycle?
Is it because we're so far assimilated that we don't care and have become what we never were. If that is the case, are we even close to what we were or that at all? How many of our people just litter away eveything. Throw it on the ground, or into the land. Crap, garbage and junk. Then people go and buy gazz-gussling cars and SUV's. What have we become?
Did our people fight long and hard aganst our past and current oppressors so that their future generations can become of this? Settlements and "negotiations"? A people build on strong foundation that fought hard to protect it's society's autonemy through all it's aspects. And here we are, littering, polluting, demolishing. We not only kill ourselves but our mother who gave us....everything. Ladies and gentlement, if we stay on this course, I'd start to expect another flood because it's the same thing repeating itself.
Now there is one solution that come from outside status-quo that is among the younger iGeneration and Y for that matter. Somthing I'm in the process of doing. This concept and ideology is formaly known as.....DECOLONIZTION.
When are you going to decolonize?
Dustin, I can't speak on behalf of your culture and race, but I can say, as a fellow Canadian, that lives on the same land and Earth that you do, I, too, am worried about what we are doing to our - once beautiful - planet.
It makes me sick to look out from Grouse Mountain and look downtown and see to clouds. Not normal clouds though - clouds of smog and pollution.
It also disgusts me how lazy people have become. Why does everybody drive everywhere? I've seen people literally drive 4 blocks to the corner store and back. Why? What could is it doing your planet - and better yet - your body?
When you think of how life was like 200 years ago, before cars, to have to walk the distance equivalent to 4 blocks to get some food would have been a miricle to any person back then.
Heh, this comment is turning into a blog post of my own. Talking of which, I've posted again, so go check it out.
Great blog you got going, and although most of the time I feel out of place to comment on the issues and discussions of your culture, I still read it, and will comment where I see fit. Keep it up buddy.
Thanks and I know most of my posts are to do with Indigenous issues. I get all my friends or anyone to read because it gives your whities an insight and somthing to think about. haha
sometimes our paths, the path of the red man and white man intertwine.