Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow (FNCR 2022) Smudging Craig Proulx is a Métis

Craig Proulx is a Métis person who holds a doctorate in anthropology from McMaster University

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Examples of the poems include A Minor Apocalypse

teaching ideas for before

placing the NWMP and early settlement in an international framework of imperialist plunder and the imposition of colonialist ideology

Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow (FNCR 2022) Smudging Craig Proulx is a MétisIn Treaty Words, written by Aime Craft, an Anishinaabe Mtis lawyer, the first treaty that was made was between the earth and the sky. It was an agreement to work together. We build all of our treaties on that original treaty. This is the story of Mishomi and his granddaughter. On the banks of the river that have been Mishomiss home his whole life, he teaches his granddaughter to listento hear both the sounds and the silences, and so to learn her place