Does Time Exist?
KOOKMIS-ENOOG (Our Grandmothers) on Indian time Our two peoples’, Indians and Euro-Christians, world views are as different as night and day. One excellent example of this fact is the concept of time. Time such as past, present, future, hours, days, weeks, months and years. Time is a Euro-Christian,...
HOW DID OUR HOMELAND BECOME SOMEONE ELSE’S COUNTRY??? WITH APOLOGIES TO THE ANCESTORS
The Saint John River Valley that our people have always known as the Wulustuk River Valley is our homeland and has been so for thousands and thousands of generations. At the time of contact our Ancestors referred to it as Ski-gin-ee-weekog or “our Indian Homeland”. Our people were...
Hidden history comes to light
For over 100 years Canada’s Indian, Metis and Inuit children were taken from their families and sent to institutional settings called residential schools, sometimes forcibly, sometimes under threat of incarceration if parents did not cooperate and always with the deception that what was being done was in the best...
Neqotuk Health Center
The Neqotuk Health Center at Tobique First Nation provides a holistic healing environment for all patients who visit the clinic. By embracing and displaying community cultural aspects, this health center celebrates Aboriginal art, history and traditions. The spiritual aspects of patients’ health issues are addressed along with the physical....
A CRISIS OF INDIAN LEADERSHIP
In the matter regarding the disunity and divisions created by male Indian leaders, who should the rank and file Indians follow now that male Indian leaders have been forced, by the actions of Chief Theresa Spence, to either lead, follow or get out of the way. To me the...
Maliseet Language Project
There are estimated to be about 6,500 different languages spoken in our world today. This might sound like a lot, but there have been even more languages that have been lost. When we lose the language of any cultural group we lose a piece of living history, and...
RESPECT SELF, RESPECT THE TALKING CIRCLE
Aboriginal people use methods, which are non-confrontational and non-adversarial, of reaching agreement or consensus that are in keeping with values fundamental to their world view and spirituality. The circle is not just a symbol, it is the model by which their society and thought are structured. A Talking Circle...
ALL TRUE HEALING BEGINS FROM WITHIN
No country, no nation, no community can find healing until the people of that country, nation or community look for healing within themselves. This is the healing process and it begins with awareness with each and every individual. Self awareness and self healing is what the healing path...
THIS CRY
Man’s ability to think often renders him downright stupid Two geologists were having a discussion. One geologist was more forward in his thinking, the other was rather narrow-minded, and therefore less wise than his colleague. The geologists were discussing the tiny island we all live on. The...
SAVING OUR EARTH MOTHER
I remember, as a boy of five or six, going with my family to the Tobique River to spend Sunday afternoons swimming or picnicking. Our whole family; my mom, my dad, my brothers and sisters, and me. It was a happy time. At that time, we could pick...