Our Culture And Healing Our Way

No Walls, No Wire, But I Will Never Run Away Cat Lake First Nation is not a prison without walls, it seem like it at times, but it is not, it is only in the minds of those that have never took the risk of thinking outside of govt assimilation. We are the people of this land, a land that God our Creator entrusted to us, so our healing and our peace can be also come from what he has touched, in this case we touch him through enjoying and appreciating what he has made for us, but we shall never take it for granted. Living a good life on the land is a blessing, and this is what the young people have to realize too as well. Teaching our young people that in preserving the past we also build our future. That is the blessing we all have to pass on while we still can.

So why do aboriginals turn to a life of crime? It advocates spending billions of dollars on education and skills training, eventually scrapping the Indian Act, and drawing more young aboriginals into RCMP ranks to turn the tide of despair plaguing many native communities. "If the status quo of aboriginal economic and educational initiatives continues, street gangs and violent activity will increase and already marginalized aboriginal populations will experience a diminishing quality of life," says the paper, obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act. "The fallout from aboriginal poverty is all too obvious and will only get worse.“ Mounties tout 'Marshall Plan' to solve aboriginal woes By Jim Bronskill, THE CANADIAN PRESS Going back to our way, culture and our traditions is the key. The Church taught us by the color of our skin we were sinners, but in our way...we only call it a challenge.

I have my own culture, and I still have my own mind, so that I can do things for myself as well as for my people. So don’t tell me I have no rights of my own.

This is the answer in which we will always be a total "Anishinabe," and nothing else. Conversion, Anishinabe says "never," or "not at all."

We will not be moved. We are not white. "We are Anishinabe for life." It is who we are. We did not change. But we are known, and that in itself "has the greatest meaning."

- GCHI MIIGWETCH

[My post script]

Any person who does not uphold this Sovereignty and Self Determination and the recognition and protection of Indigenous Rights, is leading First Nations away from their main objectives, and is therefore, not fit to lead politically.