And we did at one time have very, very big families, and certainly today we see that the role of men in our families is not there anymore. And the burden of dealing with systems like child welfare are on the shoulders of our women. So our men, well where are they? We know that our men are in prison and they\u2019re over-represented in the prison system. They should be involved in their children\u2019s lives but unfortunately they\u2019re not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
That\u2019s not to say that all of our men aren\u2019t involved in their children\u2019s lives. They certainly are but quite often the system doesn\u2019t recognize the importance of our men in the role of their children\u2019s lives. But also too, you know, just extended family members, aunts and uncles, cousins \u2013 I mean in my family, my brother was the firstborn. He went to live with our grandparents. That was just the way in our family. All the firstborns went to live with our grandparents as a means of making sure that our grandparents were looked after as they got older. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Epigenetics recognizes that we inherit DNA from our parents and our grandparents. And sometimes in the process of inheriting that DNA we also inherit memories. Our people have always known that. We call it blood memory. And we\u2019ve inherited some traumatic incidents. We carry that in our blood, in our DNA. And if you don\u2019t resolve some of those things that cause the trauma you will see it carry on in the next generation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And that has happened for our people. It\u2019s taken many years when you consider, I mean Canada is still a very young country and we have indigenous populations that are trying to heal from the violence that has been inflicted on us through the process of contact. And so it\u2019s going to take a while for our people to get to a level of healing. So, but we\u2019re in that time now. Our people are awake and we\u2019re reclaiming who we are, so it\u2019s recognizing there were harms that were done in the past but we can recover from them. And certainly developing stronger relationships with settler populations will be important to that healing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I want to believe that there are going to be positive opportunities that result in the future and that we\u2019ll see numbers come down. But the thing is we need to put more resources into the hands of our families and I think that that\u2019s an area that\u2019s really important to recognize, that we\u2019ve sacrificed a lot. And you know, not just by sharing the land but everything that we\u2019ve gone through with residential schools in the \u201860s Scoops and living through poverty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I want to see that there is going to be positive opportunities but also we\u2019re waking up. I\u2019ve seen more and more of our people participating in ceremony and they\u2019re bringing forward beautiful ideology that comes from our indigenous ancestors. These are things that have been around; these are practices that are changing people\u2019s lives. And you\u2019re seeing people becoming much more stronger and asserting their right, and you know that I think is positive for the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And I know right now that our people are challenging systems, and that resurgence, that reclaiming of our culture and the beauty and the strength that come with it makes our people stronger. And so if we guide more of our young people, more of our families to understanding that they come from a long line of very strong people, and that they can affect their future \u2013 so I think we\u2019re seeing a lot of change in that direction happening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So it takes time. But it\u2019s about developing relationships. I think that is really key too, is educating people to understand the beauty and the strength and the knowledge of our own ways of being and doing, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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