Hi! I live in Lorette, Manitoba with my family. I am a mother, wife, daughter, sister, Associate Professor of Socio-Cultural Anthropology and Co-Chair of the Respectful Rematriation Ceremony at the University of Manitoba.

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I am grateful to be in this place where the Nations, Peoples, Communities, and individuals who have called the sacred lands of what is now known as Manitoba and North America home for thousands of years. This large and diverse group is not limited by the arbitrary geographic boundaries imposed by colonization on rights and responsibilities associated with original or ancestral lands, and territory and includes, but is not limited to, the Anishinaabeg, Nehinawak and Nehithawak, Noopiming-ininiwag, Dakota, Nakota, Denésuliné and Dene, Inuit, and Métis.

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My maternal grandparents arrived in Montreal in 1950 after the WWII Holocaust. Before the violence they lived in an area by the current Ukraine/Poland border. My paternal grandparents arrived in Montreal via New York City in 1918, from an area near the current Belarussian/Russian border. I am so thankful that they found refuge in these lands. Miigwech! Kinana'skomitin! Marsi! Pidamaya ye! Maasi Cho! Merci! Thank you!

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