First Nations, Métis, Inuit, their lives matter.

We bring with us assumption that #pain and #discomfort are abnormal and something to be "gotten rid of," something to be ended #quickly by leaving the situation or even popping a pill.-#BecomingAnAlly, Anne Bishop.

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#AboriginalLivesMatter
#Allyship
#Heal

We are missing the point, staying in the role of uninvolved observers and taking an important part of #AboriginalCulture lightly...An elder has a first memory of being #beaten by a #whitewoman, a nun at the #residentialschool-Becoming an #Ally. Anne Bishop.

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Writing about #Aboriginal themes means joining the dots from the #ColonialPolicies of the past to the problems faced by #FirstNations, #Métis, #Inuit today. It means acknowledging the wrongs and the pain.―Lynda A. Archer
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#condolences

The chief of a Mi'kmaq First Nation in New Brunswick says an RCMP officer shot one of his community members Friday evening. (CBC)

Indigenous Mi'kmaq chief says community member fatally shot by New Brunswick RCMP

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