Before colonization, Indigenous people had very few issues with addiction, if any at all. The various societal structures that had developed thrived successfully for millennia before Columbus ever stumbled to the shore. And some of the first acts of the European colonists, once they had power, was to do to Indigenous children what they had done to each other for many, many centuries: Traumatize the child. Take the child from home. Isolate them. Kill some of them and experiment on and abuse others. Destroy that childs ability to trust in the world, in other people, in safety, in themselves. Generation after generation. And this trauma, to varying degrees, has been practiced on children (no matter their background) time and time again. Its a sickness we have inherited. This is the world that isnt really working for us. Can we find our way back to community, to love, to acceptance? If we want to cure our culture of addiction, we must. Hiy hiy ******* Aaron Paquette is a First Nations Metis artist, author and speaker. Based in Edmonton, Aberta, his Bestselling Novel Lightfinder was published 2014 through Kegedonce Press and is now in 2nd printing. To order Lightfinder: chapters.indigo.ca/…/lig…/9780986874079-item.html
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 17:41:05 +0000
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