Being a human book
Create: 12/01/2015 - 19:26
A middle-aged blond woman approaches me.
She introduces herself as Margaret, shakes my hand, and sits on a chair across from mine.
I’m a midwife and deal a lot with Aboriginal families up north, she says. She noticed families from up north are tight and supportive, especially with extended family.
I wish we had that down here, she says, instead of every family unit fending for themselves.
Then she unloaded the first question: “What other things do they have up north that you wish we could have down here?”
When I was a boy growing up in my home community of Attawapiskat on the James Bay coast, I was deathly afraid of looking at the full moon.
I grew up...
I’m happy to see the ongoing support and assistance in our northern remote communities to help our people cope with so many lifelong and generational issues...