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When Worldviews Collide
By: Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith When Worldviews Collide The First Nations peoples of Canada have a particular understanding of the ways in which the world came into being, and the ways they have come into being as a people. This particular knowledge is often conveyed through story/myth and legend, and it is through these venues that…
Read MoreReview of Highway of Tears
Review: “Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls” Reviewed By: Christine Miskonoodinkwe-Smith “Highway of Tears: A true story of racism, indifference and the pursuit of justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous women and girls,” is written by journalist Jessica McDiarmid and…
Read MorePoetry- Wounds By Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith
Wounds open And fester inside Bringing forth a pain I cannot adequately describe Wounds open And fester inside Though I know I’m not alone And there’s countless other Sixty Scoopers who feel the same My pain from yesterday Compounds with today’s And becomes fresh once more. Wounds open And fester inside Bringing forth a pain…
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Read MoreI Walk in Two Worlds
By: Christine Miskonoodinkwe-Smith I walk in two worlds Despite being a racialized woman A member of a First Nations in Canada I walk In two worlds Fighting to live In the westernized world When I also have Anishnawbe worldviews I take westernized medication And listen and adhere to western knowledge and Anishnawbe knowledge When all…
Read MoreReview: Nitisanak by Lindsay Nixon
Nitisanak Review: By: Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith Nitisanak is a ground breaking memoir that explores love in its many intricate and difficult ways. It explores queer love, prairie punk scenes, toxic masculinities, the feminine divine and so much more. Author, Lindsay Nixon asks “Is there really such thing as NDN love, as trauma bb love, as…
Read MoreReview of “Raised Somewhere Else”
Review- Ohpikiihaakan- Ohpihmeh- Raised Somewhere Else Reviewed by Christine Miskonoodinkwe-Smith Cardinal’s book “Raised Somewhere Else” brings awareness to an assimilationist policy that the Canadian government practiced between the 1960s to the early 1980s of removing First Nations children from their biological families and being raised somewhere else (outside their own culture) and striving to essentially…
Read MoreHome: What is it?
Home? What is it? That’s a question that often crosses my mind and as I contemplate it I think about my biological family, question the audacity of the Canadian government and their puppets who took my siblings and I away from my mommy, and that we were kidnapped to another province. It has taken me…
Read MoreMemory……
I wish memory didn’t become faulty or wax and wane with time. I remember the day I met you, I travelled three days on a greyhound from another province. Told a stranger in the seat beside me with the excitement of a little kid “I’m meeting my mom for the first time” the lady looked…
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