A Lament For Confederation: Chief Dan George Speech (* w/Chief Leonard G...

   

no time to celebrate this colonial day of celebration, NOT,

everyone, good morning

Watching People In Different Places Live June 21st 2020

Video Entered in Engage Contest

360 Raw Assemble Edit after ceremony vigil for Native Homeless Man kille...

Raw assemble edit of 360 footage Viewer can grab image and move it around. Great music form the traditional singers and thanks to the three young girls who helped film a bit at beginning. Watermarked as footage is for later work

In Honor of a Gentleman killed caught in the drift

In Honor of the Gentleman who was homeless and killed by the police. This raw footage is part of that story. manipulated thru the 360 play software. A real quick screen record of raw 360 footage before bed. Thanks to David for driving me home, Much love, and grace to Judith Ann Gale, who organized this honorable event. There was a ceremony, at the place of passing of this gentleman a year ago. We all then went to the Gazebo to share music. A wonderful evening and wonder music. More to come

A VIGIL to Help a soul caught in the drift

A real quick edit before bed. Thanks to David for driving me home, Much love, and grace to Judith Ann Gale, who organized this honorable event. There was a ceremony, at the place of passing then we went to the Gazebo to share music. A wonderful evening and wonder music. More to come

360 Raw. Eagle Feathers Film & Music Manufacturing Corporation excerpt.

17 minutes of raw footage of 360 capture of prayer and aspects of event of BLM 2020

Eagle Feathers Film & Music Manufacturing Corporation stream.
All Indigenous Crew

Producer/Director/Camera: Donald Morin,

Production Coordinator/Camera Person Carrie Lawrence,

Production Assistant/Camera Theo Ottie.

All the nations will be gathered before him

Very powerful, for we know what is ahead of all of us, this is the beginning of the end Amen

Don't Look Back Now Review

One of my Listeners loved this song, so I added some media to the stream from my current film. SO much thanks Linda. Everyone please stay safe XO. Don't Look Back Now Review

Mad Dogs On The Run Sundown award winning announce ment and song

Dear Donald Morin,



Thank you for your patience. There were hundreds of submissions received this month in your category, which made making a final decision extremely difficult. That said, it is with great pleasure that we formally congratulate you on winning The Akademia Music Award for Best Folk / Singer-Songwriter Song for 'Mad Dogs On The Run Sundown' in the January 2020 Akademia Music Awards! This is an important achievement and you should be very proud of your accomplishments! We are pleased to present you with your permanent award certificate:



https://www.theakademia.com/awards/2020/DonaldMorin-MadDogsOnTheRunSundown-0000351211.html

Good Morning , this...day symbolically of Humankind's days of freedom, as The Affirmative Culture prepares to remember the fallen soldiers in the wars since I assuming the Great War , the First World War of the twentieth century; How far have we moved forward since the WW II, K War, V war, Gulf war, 911, and today with the uprisings, Asian protests, Bolivia, Trump, and now the notion of separatism in the western area of Canada? From the creations as humans produce (as in the accompanying image I created) in all its systems materiality and digitally, has any good come from our daily machinations of thought and movement. Rhetorical questions as we must remember all the good that is exists in the world regardless of the increasing madness growing around us. Secular and spiritual protectionism building up each day on the good and evil sides of the fences. We must remember all that blood that was spilt on the ground long before these wars, as all the good people who died battling the evil of this world which is real, part of us as having our eyes and minds open knowing the difference between good and evil. Movie politicians pronouncing, "the people do not want to hear death and gloom stories, predictions or any other nonsense to keep them from enjoying life. Neither do I, I have such more work to do, areas to improve my life so I can help others. What will my "brand" be after the real me is gone and buried? Images, sounds and streams will exist of me, but what value would they be if I wasted my life here if all these values and notions of defining who we are of BRAND, VALUE, PERSONALITY, EXPERIENCE, PERCEPTION, and TRUTH is based on material abstract ideas not spiritual concrete definitions? In this creation exercise, I took a capitalist marketing graphic (Bottom left corner) and played around. I am not looking for comments , replies, criticism, clarity, or exactness of words presented. They are signifiers as are the visuals purely for wonderment and triggers of moments to wonder what the hell am I trying to say ???lol Nothing. All those Indigenous People who died in the NDN wars, all the colonial wars , Indigenous People world wide fought to protect their land, mother tongue and family should not be forgotten as well. As Tomorrow, November 11th is an important day to reminds us of our Gifts we are allowed daily. Thank you all for your time. God be with you all XOXOX Donald Morin, CEO of tilmcom.ca and donaldmorinfilm.com

Update after being away so long

Sorry all who stop by, School work, film work, new pursues in life has kept me away. I will add more later. Back to school Soon

I Uderstand The Need To Support Ones Family, Economic reasons, The Desire To Live A Happy Productive Life

List below taken from news story, following DAMMEDIA opinion of the day! I understand the need to support ones family, the economic reasons, and the desire to live a happy and comfortable life. I would see why these Indigenous People from all these settlements would feel the need to sign on to this development; to survive in an increasingly ever expanding ultra capitalistic society which is constantly over consuming the available resources existing today. We all great and small, rich and poor watch the cost of living increase daily, wages stagnated, poverty increasing, homelessness expanding, the opioid crisis magnifying other problems behind the needle or spoon. Crime increasing, and indigenous peoples disparities in Canada at times mind boggling at times avec racism, Incendiary language of radio ads, social media hatred of the other in all forms, and the lack of love in the flesh world, even though social media expounds out love and grace every other hour as we tweedled our lives away at work play, or in bed we lay. I say this , as today, as some slept, I am at work, and for a moment I browse the net and read about Saskatchewan being a hotbed of KKK activity early 1900s. The "Indians" in Sask. area were the Canadian "red n^g*-r" here as opposed to what was happening in the USA. That two word duality connotation starting with the word Red was pronounced in a 1950s Hollywood Western from an old settler woman as her family is fighting off the Indians during the building of the western frontier . All under the guises of the manifest destiny and Christendom as Europeans riding on horses, trains, and stagecoaches across Turtle Island looking for a place to plant their feet. And this is all during the modernist period and leading up to slightly after the beginning of the Contemporary period with the dissolvement of the Monopoly Standard OiI 1911. We all attempt to define life with our checks and balances to find order, define order, and to prevent the destruction of ourselves or society by others bent on living their life in an environment of excess, opulence's, rich resources, scrumptious desires in all forms, and acquire as much as we can in life before we drop. And that is an 21st century fact. We all do it, and when death knocks on a door too close to us, we stop , sadden at the fact, give our respects and move back into the day forward. Our friend yesterday Christopher Treloar passed away suddenly yesterday, and it shocked many. I think of his sons and their moment of grief. Noting prepares them for such a great loss except knowing there is more to life here than what we live with everyday, and what WE MUST DO AT TIMES to survive in this world. Christopher was such a giving man, and now he is gone home. But it is not different for all the indigenous people in this list below, for myself, others who knew him, or do not know him or the fool who produced and wrote that hideous radio ad, debunking the atrocities of residential schools. We all make our choices in life and we live with our choices daily as we exists each day just as that think tank in Winnipeg did in getting their radio ad produced to much astonishment from Canada's First People AGAIN! We all need the paper money to survive little alone to dream of better days, more money, or material goods. The environmentalist, traditionalists, urbanists, and of course all of the Euro Canadians, Euro immigrants (Canadians in waiting) and all people of cultural diverse backgrounds And the folks form this list are entitled to succeed or fail in society just like you or me. No judgement allowed Mother Earth has provided us her resources since our fall from grace, but does it have to monumentalized to the extent of Teck Resources overlapping traditional territories, migratory paths of the animals, lakes, ecosystems, and all that nature provides in rebirth, recycling of the its dead, leaves, animals, insects, worms, all creatures great and small feeding off each other in the great cycle of life. We have seen the tailing ponds, the destruction of overflows, nature's changing the land, creating more run offs of toxic liquid and chemicals in the water system, and ecosystem. Have we not learned anything yet. We must change our energy supply. Black Op industries have created different forms of energy propulsion besides what is available today, but big Corporations continue to do what is existing here in this development, with no regard for the future. We will continue to live in an age of contradictions till there will be a "new Heaven, and an new earth, as the seals are unsealed, scrolls unrolled, and we awake "...with fear and trembling..." Have a good day all, XOXO and grace to you all on this fragile planet. Condolences to Christopher Treloar family and friends "...Indigenous groups support Teck's Frontier oilsands mine Here's a list of Indigenous groups that have signed agreements with Teck: 1. Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation 2. Mikisew Cree First Nation 3. Fort McKay First Nation 4. Fort Chipewyan Métis 5. Fort McKay Métis 6. Fort Mc Murray Métis 1935 7. Fort McMurray First Nation #468 8. Métis Nation of Alberta- Region One and it's member locals 9. Athabasca Landing Local # 2010 10. Buffalo Lake Local # 2002 11. Conklin Local # 193 12. Lac La Biche Local # 1909 13. Owl River Local # 1949 14. Willow Lake Local # 780"

Idle No More Monsieur Cote 2018

When I feel suicidal or worthless due to the indifference of life today I play this song. Sorry but I am losing the energy to fight injustice as it is in individuals who ignite their hatred towards me as last night and today. God protect me. I am playing all the instruments

#JUSTICEforNATIVE_PEOPLE_COLTON_TINA!

http://www.isuma.tv/tilmcom-the-indigenous-literacy-manufacturing-company/walking-with-sweet-mary-live-in-honolulu

Changing How Media represents native people in the Media

I had the pleasure of listening to a segment of Ronald Harris Live Facebook webcast, and he brought up very important issues regarding native people in the media, particularly the media presentation of Late Tina Fontaine, and late Colten Boushie. I would add what I partly wrote to him "..The Literacy we need outside of the Language of blood, and its nemesis "If it bleeds, it leads' is (a Ron Harris quote of an associate's view) is deep within the DNA and energy we create from the goodness we consume if we keep the inner spirit and fire alive with hope...." Hope that we can create a macro conscious and action driven mass protest and stoppage of Canadian society to critique the current presentation of the negative media news reports on the conditions at the time of his demise and as well late Tina Fontaine's conditions at the time of her passing. Totally unacceptable in how these two young victims of colonial racist violence against their person is presented in the media. Such signification is dangerous in terms of how the masses will rationalize their views, actions and perspectives on native people. A perpetuation of the continuous stereotypical racist maxims which are ingrained in private and public realms of thought and actions today and for the last one thousand years. The time to change is now.

Jane Fonda, Taz Bouchier and Our Current Status avec Fossil fuesl and the current Status Quo

The bottom line Taz, is that we need another Standing Rock, Oka crisis in Canada to bring to head the pressing issues that now exist. We are in a day and Age, where prophecies are unfolding every other day, and the few in power are doing their best to sway the populace to accept their vision for the future, one world government, one world religion, and all that is not part of the God we love and pay homage too in our prayers. the language of blood seems to be the only recourse to wake up the moronic governmental leaders, provincial and federal, and moronic mass culture with constant media saturation of anti-propaganda media to dispel the lies, and naysayers who troll the net to disavow the environmentalist, indigenous activist and traditional leaders who have not bought into the capitalist schemes of the present day. We are all complicit in this oil industry trade-offs of cars, trains, automobiles, helicopters, boats and planes we use to travel to and fro. The for the pipeline idiots will surely remind us of that, and Jane Fonda, can very well go back to her silver spoon she uses to expound her uneducated reactionary views which just tends to disservice all the hard workers who day in and day out battles the on slaughter of media, oil industry supporters attempt to continue pushing the agenda of the oil industry and run off industries who make a product and profit from the fossil fuels of the twentieth century. I total understand the need to support families, a life of birth, re-birth and the path to our eventual demise. But how do we change the minds of the masses after over two hundred years on indoctrination expounding the benefits of the industrial revolution, mechanical modes of production and transport, food production and so on with all the convenient of life today. Ultimately our lives and this planet earth is in the hands of God, and his word. As it is written, there will be a new heaven, and a new earth, and all that was will pass away and we will begin our new life with God and al his glory. SO, is all our hard work for nothing Taz, when we see what is being extrapolated on the www through families use to a way of life and unable to change a way if life to something simpler, more less materialistic, and feel they need the fossil fuel industry to get back on their feet? We all have to make sacrifices , and I am afraid that the reality is , that the mass moronic culture is unwilling to de-technologicalize ones self from the fossil fuel and off shoot industries which defines life style and the market place today. we have all been sucked in the unnatural way of lfie and are too use to it to change back to basic modes food growing, living off he land, and all that was before western civilization attempted to change the heathen and infidel. thanks, Taz for your word, I hope I make sense in a increasingly dangerous and consumptous world

CupOf Coffee 1983

A song to listen to with your cup of coffee

I'm Not A Prophet Just A Singer

 I was living at 1750 Davie Street, Vancouver hanging out with Colin MacPherson, Debra Charlie, Barb Gunderson, John Anderson doing the Carnegie Theatre Guild 401 Main Street Vancouver, DTES. 1983

Getting up at 4 AM to RESPOND to my friend and colleague filmmaker Loretta Todd!!!

I wrote this in response to a friends Facebook posting . First paragraph is original posting: Image from old performance art gig I did in 1990: Loretta’s Original Post: "On various occasions I was approached by our people - not artists or filmmakers - who had seen films/plays made by our people that they felt traumatized them, that the stories were constructed without any consideration for the meaning or effect it would have on Indigenous people - especially Indigenous women. In fact, many felt those films/plays were really white man's fantasies or that the women in the work were to blame for their tragedies. Does a filmmaker/playwright have any responsibility to the people who watch their films? Do Indigenous filmmakers/playwright have any responsibility to audiences? We talk about the "power" of words but what does that mean to those who write or make films? Do we give the white audiences what they want but couch it in Indigenousness so it is ok? My answers to those people was to say, well, I respect the work that goes into making films or plays - and as a filmmaker all I can do is make decolonized work myself to counter those colonized imaginations. Can we possibly have a forum for such discussion or will the colonized win?" by Loretta Todd A forum would be of interest. How did we as indigenous people develop in according to the transformation of storytelling from an oral based tradition to the colonial based creations that occurred during contact, or exist today in some form of Eurocentric patterning, construction, sculpturing or pictorial reference. From the time, we are little babies, we are introduced to stories from our parents, relations, and the written word. Learning how to live with our fears as we grew, how to compartmentalize our traumatic experiences as a child How emotions develop or do not develop ((Residential, assimilation control) and what happens to us when we personally have a private or public meltdown, a cathartic release of emotional baggage which gets triggered by watching and listening to an emotional moment in a play, film, song, musical motif, artwork, performance, novels and so on. From my early days as a child remembering the abuse I experienced, work or play accidents, the pain, the blood, (what ever my senses were absorbing at the time) such sad moments would and did come back to my present senses because if what I was doing that day. Listening to a song, (remembering a breakup, or the ecstasy of ones first time falling in love.) Does the Creator have an obligation to inform me of my “upcoming “ experience of traumatic event, experience prior to it happening, so that there is some consideration to how such an future event is going to affect me? In some case, God and the gods did warn the humans to watch out for an upcoming event, to prevent harm or suffering, and well, today, do us little creators have to go around every other day to inform our audience that our creations may offend you, traumatize you, or cause you to feel bad, or confused??? I do not know the answer to your question Loretta. Similar posting to Curtis’s posting on fb a while ago about production practices of Eurocentric filming to indigenous filming, (ceremonies, circles prior to production, versus the hierarchy of the Hollywood Hallucination, its value system, and modes of production. Ultimately, I am not talking about the regimentation of the arts in cases an actor or dancer’s training, a filmmaker’s long endless trail of writing, re-writing, number crunching, photographing, or a writer, or visual artist’s endless array into constructing the perfect form to entice, or embrace the audience member or reader into the world of one’s creation. So, on that note, lets look at the people who inquired about cause and effect of works on the audience member. You open with: “On various occasions I was approached by our people - not artists or filmmakers - who had seen films/plays made by our people that they felt traumatized them, that the stories were constructed without any consideration for the meaning or effect it would have on Indigenous people - especially Indigenous women.” On an elementary level, yes, the artist should post a notice if objectual content may offend or affect people severely. ON that elementary societal level, it exists today, Film labels at beginning of movies, book introductions, public announcement prior to shows. As in an old book I once had Amos Vogel’s Film as a subversive Art, there were many articles and examples of film works which crossed cultural, sexual, and aesthetic taboos, which shocked the audience, happenings which enraged the audience member, and where as of course police came in and did their arresting job. An artist may have or may not have a responsibility towards notifying the audience of objectual material in ones’ work? Depending on the artist’s intention. Entice, massage, entangle, shock the audience member’s sense to get a reaction, a change of thinking, rationalization? So, we come to the difficult notion regarding the re-traumatization of indigenous women through our work as creators? From an indigenous standpoint, yes, we as artist must take inconsideration how our works will affect our people when it comes to re-telling the traumatic personal and public stories of the genocide assimilation policies, institutions, orphanages, foster homes, priests estuaries, and private and public places where our people were abused, sexually assaulted, or murdered because we were “Indians”. More so for our women, because of in my opinion the Missing women tragedies which affected so many families and mothers and fathers. Daughters, sons, and babies. Now on another level, I think about performance art and other cultural aspects if I can coin a phase “Reactionary” art works, Guerilla filmmaking, shock art, Otter Muhols “Happenings “Happenings” of the post Nazi Germanic years. When I first read about this character in Vogel’s book, I was shocked and appalled at the artist’s previous history. I was taking Experimental and Avant Guarde filmmaker Al Razutis’s video production course and reading that book affected the development and creation of my performance video theatre performance By Leisure/By Penance, (1986) which look at the Native Artist in Contemporary society. I utilized some of those shocking images briefly in my video trying to understand my history as a native man in a white racist society. I also captured a video image of apiece of liver falling in front of the camera onto a piece of glass, and shot a scene of hands tearing apart the liver. Shock value, what was I trying to say back then? I know at that time of my life, all my physical and sexual abuse as a child was repressed and forgotten, until such traumatic memories came out through my academic training as a young artist! Playmaking class (theatre) we were working with the colour punk: that was when suddenly my rape experience came up and I went into a rage in my working space area, with the teacher eventually coming up to me to ask me to tone it down! Another time in an acting directing semester, the teacher Olive Crawford came up to me and whispers in my ear, “to come back to earth, you are scaring the other students” Again, rage and anger from my abusive years came out through the exploratory work of the time. Which brings me back to your other statement: “In fact, many felt those films/plays were really white man's fantasies or that the women in the work were to blame for their tragedies." What was I projecting through these experiences, performance art? Were they uncontrolled cathartic releases in the sacred theatre space where we can explore such emotions if we are in control as actors or artists? An actor must be 110 % committed to his/her performance but at the same time remember that 10% of his/her brain that it is only acting! So, at the time as a young native art student I was learning the euro centric forms of art/culture, filmmaking void of my cultural history but learning all aspects of art culture, when to break the rules, and so on. It was not till Spirit Song Native Indian theatre Company (1884) and the Chief Dan George Memorial Foundation Nine-month video training program (1986), that I was being re-introduced to the oral tradition, and “True” history of what happened to us as a people. Previously I was the white Indian Artist performing the “white man’s fantasies” the Hollywood Indian, or attempting to find white man’s success on their playing terms, which was a take it or leave it scenario, an unworkable scenario unless we worked a subservient level, and that if I did not get the part, it was my fault because I was an Indian. So, when these -good indigenous audience members say “those films/plays were really white man’s fantasies …or that the women …were to be blam[ed] for their tragedies” What does that say for the indigenous creator/author of the story? That our creation abilities are thwarted by euro-centric forms of story-telling, western semiotics, colonial upbringing? Looking at the well-made play, a one act play, a standard three act play or two act play, episodic play, or film, we are in one level governed by the traditional euro-centric forms of storytelling, traditional dramaturgical devices to introduce characters, rising conflict, climax, and the denouement. But as you point out Loretta, we are now attempting to de-colonized out stories through our own practices, training, and cultural upbringing. In closing, you finish off your inquiry: “We talk about the "power" of words but what does that mean to those who write or make films? Do we give the white audiences what they want but couch it in Indigenousness so it is ok? My answers to those people was to say, well, I respect the work that goes into making films or plays - and as a filmmaker all I can do is make decolonized work myself to counter those colonized imaginations. Can we possibly have a forum for such discussion or will the colonized win?" The power of the word, and what does that mean to us as artists? Well, the power of the word, the spirit of the word in endless, much can happen in life in how we chose our words. Spiritually, we can only look at the Creator, and how the power of the word brought creation in to being. How our words as artist bring into fruition the genesis of our own creations. How to respect the tools and gifts our creator has given us through our genes, upbringing, cultural training education and academic reasoning. Yes, respect is so important these days, Wars have been started over the wrong usage of words, we must consider how our work will affect audience members and have initiatives to counter act negative reactions, and attitudes. For Headline theatre’s tour of Out of The Silence, we had counsellors on our tour because of how forum theatre affected the audience members and even ourselves as actors. As a filmmaker, I had to change one of my films to take in consideration another artists’ objections to usage of a poem of the artist because as a university student I did not ask the artist permission and used the poem in a filmic scene to get an reaction for the audience members of the time. And as I stated earlier, the liver scene was created for purely audience reaction. So, the life of an artist is a learning curve. Respect for the audience is important and awareness of culture history is important and artists should create accordingly and respectfully, unless we live in a fascist society and we need shock art/culture to shock the society out of complacency! Decolonizing oneself as an indigenous artist is important and decolonizing the audience member is justified as well to change the colonial mindset of the last century and the next generations. God, bless you Loretta, hopefully I haven gone off on a tangent and my words make sense today in this complex world. Donald Morin, BA

On one final closing note, I remember my friend and colleague late Metis Artist Donald Ghostkeeper's performance work with this piece. Former SFU Modern Dance Student Maggi Guzzi, one of the dancers with us who played a residential school nun, did a scene where she straddled one of us residential school student characters (Ms O'Sullivan) on the stage and then poured milk over the performer. from under her black nun's outfit, while she lifted  her front area.  People were shocked and offended at the time. Genocide, how offensive was that? smile emoticon:-) & frown emoticon:-( The things we do as artists to change the world. Have a nice day Loretta, thanks for allowing me to express my ideas and experience

Pondering Words for a New Age, A time of Technological Freedom or Containment?

Re-posting

NOTED Testimonial [On the online paper NDNs In The Age of Terror]: “Donald Morin, Métis performer, filmmaker, and [former] teacher at Vancouver's Native Education Centre, raised extremely important political and cultural questions about the indigenous media in today's "age of terror" and the use of film technology as a tool of resistance to capitalism. Donald theorized what he sees as a move from the age of mechanical reproduction towards an “age of technological authenticity.” Quotation from: Pam Wilson of wilsonpam@mindspring.com and Michelle Stewart producers of the Global Indigenous Media panels and screenings at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference [March 2004]...in Atlanta. [Georgia, USA.] Artist Note: Addendum 2016. As we move towards the [Winter] Solstice, we are coming to… [a new world order in relationship to the soon to be appointed president of the USA; Donald Trump] …. The Black Snake Prophecy is being fulfilled in Lakota territory, Hunkpapa territory, People starving the world over, indigenous people the world over are being encroached on, decimated, wrongfully imprisoned, have their children being taken away, while drugs usage continues, and alcohol and sex crimes continue to plague our territories, our homes, and our communities. As always, crass commercialism, crass consumerism, social media propaganda and desires, pornography, gangs, crack cocaine, all of it used to suppress a people, the masses, and the dispossessed. …[so we must] ” live life to the fullest, walk gently on this earth, if I can quote an International Indigenous Friend of mine Laila Hansen …. [From previous postings from] AFN Chief, DIA Valcourt, and other traditionalist comments about the current conditions of our people [(Spring, 2015)]. Now over a year later, [o]ur street people here are [still] struggling and dying, others in the new super jail, our women are being abused, and our children taken away, as another indigenous artist friend of mine mentions during Red Jam Slam "...how do we keep the government's greedy hands off our children..." [Peaceful] Resolution [ of the current conflict at Standing Rock is paramount and of extreme importance to the well-being of all sides, and the global community watching, as well as the ones watching from the heavens. As well watching you, me, them, 24/7, all of us even in our sleep, where the Angels of God and the wicked one come visit us in our sleep. We are truly energy beings living in the body of the flesh, our souls directing us down that road of options, choices, desires, and demands. And with my rotting flesh, I have failed so many times, I hope I do not forget to get back up on my feet and keep love in my heart. Write on My Heart Today, is a song http://www.isuma.tv/dammedia/write-on-our-hearts-today-at-the-trc-edmonton I wrote during the Kosovo Wars and when my friend Lyle Thomson had a stroke and I visited him at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver. IT truly is what life is about, Life is based on everything that comes from the heart, not what we eat and consume! We truly must remain humble, graceful, be read to take action against injustice and hate. This is continually] …important, as the language of blood permeates in the air these days, as anger turns to hate, hate turns to violence, and bodies into dirt. If I can quote an artist [Sandra Semchuk’s] … recording of my ideas in 1995, "...Canada is not immuned to this chaos of discontent (At the time I was referring to the Kosovo War, and other terrorist situations abroad). IF recent news reports propagate opinions and possible scenarios pertaining to the potential actions of Canada's First People, as another Oka, Gusterferson, etc., then…reconciliation is of paramount importance and with dire urgency to initiate a just place to resolve conflict (Gawa Gyani: 91 -94 KJDC) and to finding balance between all of us in these final days of terror.