As per course,
"Reflect on what you have seen, felt, thought, and did during this module, in alignment with the medicine wheel reflection circle (see Expectations for Learning Portfolio in the left-hand menu). This will be your second entry in your online Learning Portfolio.
You are expected to reflect on all module activities (e.g., online activities, websites, videos, readings, research, etc.).
Remember that you can submit your learning portfolio in a format of your choosing (ie; audio file, video, mind-map, slide deck, journal, etc.)
Post your Learning Portfolio entry in the Module 2 dropbox on the 'Learning Portfolio' link on the left-hand menu."
As per discussion,
"A colleague from First Nations Metis and Inuit ABQ mentions that when discussing complex ideas that will end up having a call to action, it is important to begin with outlining the goals. In the discussions and content related to First Nation and Metis today, there is indeed a call to action. Canadians, Indigenous youth, and citizens of other nations must not turn a blind eye to injustice. If not because it is wrong to expect that if one does not see the injustice it doesn't in fact occur or becomes irrelevant to one's life, but it is important to note that there are scars left on the world that very much impact the future of not just a nation, but the world on a grand scheme. The goal is to reinforce the attention spent on First Nations culture within School Communities to promote a oneness of community and eliminate the awkwardness in what the community may not know versus what the community must say they now know in regards to the co-existence of Canadians and Indigenous Peoples.
If one considers the world's tallest/largest mountain, Mt. Everest. One understands that this is not actually an individual mountain, but apart of the Himalayas. Further consider that of all the mountains in the Himalayas the formation of Mt. Everest was through Glacial erosion that for whatever reason picked that spot to impact more than others. The mountain continually faces glacial erosion each year making it a sharper dagger, steadily sharpening. This stone age tool pierces the sky and from it comes water. The sky bleeds.
The glacier and the sky were in coexistence, the sky watched idly by as the glacier ravaged the surface of the earth. Through its idleness, it in fact reinforces the glacier's movements, weight and really all ways that it carved into the earth. In the end, the mountain pierces the belly of the sky, figuratively the sky had shaped its own demise over the years. It spills out and the only way to end it is to stop itself from bleeding further, to drain itself of everything it was and start anew.
This analogy is semi-inspired through the nature of the medicine wheel's origin, but the idea still floats, regardless of what it means for humans in particular. People can only stand by so long until it is a point in which they are going to have to eventually answer/take action in some way or another. It is clear that the materials may not have "involved" my late arriving ancestors into Canada directly at a time, but that land that they purchased with money that didn't directly go back to the original owners; those taxes paid to a government that used it to fund residential schools or the family raised that never knew what Indigenous folk were so upset about/why they could be upset, all comes back around. Hypothetically speaking, when others without these problems feel their voice is no longer heard, they will kick and scream but yet forget what injustice it was that they were idle to.
Millennial rhetoric already speaks to the ideas of inability to purchase land in one's home country. How little time it took for a full circle on the idle hand to feel a far less yet seemingly still painful sentiment. This karma does not solve what issues are at hand, or were at hand though, no. The mountain only hurts itself further through erosion as it bathes in the waters that fall from the sky. The time that the mountain is capped by permafrost, when the wound had scarred, that is when everything healing. That cap needs to come and help our country, and this culture heal. This cap, is not a forgive and forget, but an acknowledgement that can maintain a culture without eroding it nor is it a matter of acknowledging what was spilt shall be tribute, but that enough is enough and none benefit from the attacks of the other. Maintain what is, develop, rebuild and live in harmonious co-existence that the rest shall look upon as one of the wonders of the world."
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