Stone Hammers
Tag Archives: First Nations
Sioux Death Song
Prairie Labyrinth
Learned From My Native Friend
Unity Sight
Poem inspired by a conversation with the artist Al Manybears
Eagle Bone Whistle
Setting the Poles c. 1910
A Kinder Gentler God
I Am Pelican
Pelican Project Salute
In July 2000 New Dance Horizons in Regina Saskatchewan put together a presentation for “Dance and the Child International”. It consisted of dance, song and poetry performed by about thirty young people many from Canada’s First Nations. I had the privilege of coaching and guiding them as they wrote their own poems.
This is the story of the teachers and young people involved.
Qu’Appelle and ESL
This poem references the experience of First Nations children who were systematically stripped of their culture and language in Canada’s residential schools. Today is set aside in the spirit of Truth and Reconciliation and marked by the wearing of orange shirts in memory of one young girl’s experience.
https://www.orangeshirtday.org/phyllis-story.html
https://www.techlifetoday.ca/articles/2020/why-we-wear-orange-on-orange-shirt-day-nait