The Sunday of Prayer that proceeds Aboriginal Day June 21st

Give them an inch and they will take a mile.

The they being referenced here is myself, my forebears who were given knowledge, food – protection those first winters in Canada by the Aboriginal people who then thrived in this land.

Our Caucasian fore fathers then continued to take more than was our right from the people who so graciously attempted to share the earth with us.

We have taken away; safe housing to raise their families in, safe water to drink, we attempt to deny them their traditions, their right to raise their children, their language and so much more.

They made space for us and we continue to push them out denying them a place in the abundance that is Canada.

I worshiped today on the traditional territory of the Haudensaunee (Iroquois), Ojibwa and Anishnabek.

We should always remember upon whose land we live and the price they have paid since our arrival.

Grandma Snyder

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