Tag: Indian Time

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,...

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...