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"This is the beautiful thing about so many Indigenous Peoples: No matter what crap is thrown at us – from genocidal laws and policies aimed to extinguish us, to racists yelling for us to get off the sidewalk – we rise. Our existence is our resistance. That isn’t just a slogan. It is the truth."

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-justin-trudeau-regrets-his-national-day-of-truth-and-reconciliation/?utm_campaign=David%20Akin%27s%20%F0%9F%87%A8%F0%9F%87%A6%20Roundup&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter

Patience is a quality I observed as a guest at Nuu-chah-nulth & federal fisheries negotiations. Regardless of the ignorance expressed by the Ottawa speakers, the Elders remained calm, stone faced, emotions masked as they watched & listened, stopping periodically to converse with their legal team.

Dr. Simon Lucas of the Nuu-chah-nulth negotiating team told me once, "Jon, you don't know how to tell time. To be successful you must learn our time."

He was correct. https://www.jonathanmccormick.com/forum/indigenous-leadership/dr-simon-lucas-nuu-chah-nulth-elder