Notes from the Trail: There’s more to National Indigenous Peoples Day than a good fish fry – NNSL Media

by ahnationtalk on June 30, 2023286 Views

June 30, 2023

June 21 was National Indigenous Peoples Day across Canada.

Again this year, as we have done since I returned north 18 years ago, we gathered in Sombe K’e Park to enjoy the fish fry gifted to us by the North Slave Metis Alliance. We sat together listening to the drummers as they beat out the heart song of Mother Earth then enjoyed speeches and world class performances by local Indigenous people.

It was marvellous.

Under sometimes clear and sometimes cloudy skies, we relished in this great community event reminding us that we are all one, we are family sharing this time on Earth together. And some of us remembered we are only here on Turtle Island because of the First Nations people who graciously allowed us in here at all.

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