The more I read into the book the better it gets (as well with consulting with my peers who spoil a lot about the book) makes me enjoy the reading and the discussions of Motorcycles & Sweetgrass. This book has great setting (which is Otter lake) and the actual events that are in the book make me feel bad about what has happened in the past because as they describe the residential schools they only get one light above their beds and that when the speak their original language they are beaten and thrown into a shack and kept in there for days on end, without water, without food. When the motorcyclist comes in and says "I'm back" and the crow flies right above them it was pretty weird because to have a crow come flying over your head and have some guy say i'm back would be really weird.
With the abuse in residential school's (well residential schools don't exist anymore) we as the people who are invaders and just took their land and decided it was ours, after that they shared resources with us and we just completely stabbed them in the back and took their children away from them and put them in schools where we beat them into our culture and took their culture away from them and they could not parent their children properly (the survivors anyway) because they never got the experience of a parent because they were taken and put into the residential schools and beaten. Also the abuse with residential schools have been mostly destroying our relationship with the aboriginal people, as we destroy the relationship with the aboriginal people we destroy the chances that we have to make amens with them. As we supposably make amens with them they will still be mad at us because one story said " One child was told to hit a nail into the fence every time he was mad, after he never got mad and his dad told him to pull out one nail every time that he didn't have a temper tantrum so he did and finally when he pulled out all of the nails his dad said see once you say or do something bad and apologize for it the scar will always be there" so no mattyer how hard we try to make it up to them they will always be mad.
The most interesting thing about the FNMI assignment was that the Elders are the highest most respected and wisest people in the tribes. The Elders of the tribe are usually story tellers, healers, teachers and also ceremony planners. They are all these different things because they have the knowledge that has been passed down from generations to generations, they will one day pass all of their knowledge down another generation. The Elders are known by certain ways, one is age, knowledge, spiritual commitments to the tribe and finally by the person themselves. Down below you will see one of the FNMI elders wearing a traditional head dress (Regailia)
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