The setting is a farmyard in central Saskatchewan, in a summer of record heat and drought. Judging from the line of vehicles parked along the road, it might have looked like a small auction. At lunchtime, on a day when the temperature would rise into the mid-30s C, farmers and ranchers wearing the protection of […] Read more
Tag Archives Truth and Reconciliation — page 2
Corn maze offers pathway to reconciliation
Manitoba farmer works with First Nations chief to remember the children who died and suffered in the residential school system
It’s hard to describe the feeling of wandering through the Deer Meadow Farm’s Every Child Matters and Turtle Island corn mazes south of Winnipeg. To be completely candid, it was humbling to walk along the pathways of this monument for people like my grandmother, Annie (Prince) Cook, older sister to decorated war hero Sgt. Tommy […] Read more
Cattle deal dealt with 140 years later
The language within the 1877 Treaty 7 is plain with little room for ambiguity. As part of the Blood Tribe’s participation in the treaty covering southern Alberta from the Rocky Mountains to the western edge of the Cypress Hills, cattle or farming implements would be provided at the expense of the Crown in exchange for […] Read more
Canada’s First Nations people were country’s first farmers
The first farmers of this land did not wear Carhartt’s. They didn’t drive pickup trucks or listen to Merle Haggard. The first farmers of this land were not of European descent. The first farmers were Indigenous people of what is now called the Canadian Prairies. Primarily mobile buffalo hunters, Indigenous people produced and sold food, […] Read more
