1/ I've been called assimilated, an apple, sellout, colonizer all by the same FN individuals using a smart ph, social media outlet, drives a car. All who use oil & gas products to survive. We have to live, we all have to collect a pay chq sum where. I chose to go into biz...
2/ I will not be baited into a name calling episode. If you want to talk facts & reality, let's talk. Your problems are not my problem. If you're unhappy than change what you're doing & stop blaming everyone else. Do something that's going to change the lives of our people...
3/ You cant expect to keep using your smart ph made by s colonizer, use products to live made by a colonizer & call me the names from the very things you are benefiting off of. That's called hypocrisy. You cant keep doing the same thing & expect different results....
4/ Blaming me or the world for past mistakes isnt the answer. We received a bad deal & it's up to us to change things & that process starts in our homes. My kids will never know what it feels like to grow up on welfare, no food, having electricity
your cut off...
5/ I was taught to survive with the resource that were giving to us. Unfortunately things have changed, the world has changed & our fish, forestry & industry's that sustained us are in trouble & have been for a very long time. I'm adapting...
6/ Im in the Energy sector & proud of it. I have amazing biz partners in our heavy civil division where 85% of the operators are FN. What jobs are you providing to our people? What opportunities are you providing to our people? What are you doing to help our brothers & sisters?
7/ I'm not only involved in the Energy sector I'm involved in sustainable development opportunities to create more jobs.
If providing solutions & creating hope is a sellout, than by all means fly away at it & call me whatever floats your boat. Pray for me & my family...
8/because everyday I wake up I do my very best to break the cycle. My kids will never understand what it's like to lose both parents in the fashion that I did, but I get up every day try to be the best parent I need to be for them. I don't complain about it, I work hard for it...
9/ I am happy for people who want change, who really want to work for it, who will commit themselves, who will sacrafice their wants to make personal changes for the best interest of your family & community.
10/ Nobody is going anywhere. We are in this together, White, Indigenous or other. We all deserve to be here. I made choice & that choice is to bridge relationships & help make our Communities, Province & Country a better place for my children & their children's children.
11/ Finally, you can either continue to push rope up hill & call me every name in the book, which isnt going change anything, but make you feel good for a second or two or you can work with me & bridge much needed relationships to change the course of our future. It's your choice
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