Seeing Wétiko: Recognizing Abundance and ‘Mutual Becoming’ - Kelaena Maude - Community Partner: Newo Global Energy - Sebastien Rioux

I also acknowledge this as the Métis’ homeland and the home of one of the largest communities of Inuit south of the 60th parallel. [...] Often referred to as a result of capitalism, individualism with a possessive nature is described as “the view that individual rationality and the sanctity of the consumer are the most significant building blocks of the economy.”17 It may be essential to note here that it seems to be the possessive description of individualism that is called into question rather than the matter of individualism its. [...] Joanna Macy and breathing memorials” to what has been lost and spaces Chris Johnstone, in their book Active Hope, explain where we as a collective, mourn the loss of the human that feeling our grief for the systems of the world is spirit to the distractions.28 In my mind, addressing our indicative of our interconnectedness and that through collective grief includes recognizing that the systems tur. [...] cloth in the likeness of man, is more than he who makes the sandals for our feet.” But if you in your pain call birth an affliction and But I say, not in sleep but in the overwakefulness of the support of the flesh a curse written upon your noontide, that the wind speaks not more sweetly to the brow, then I answer that naught but the sweat of giant oaks than to the least of all the blades of grass. [...] And what is it to work with love? And if you sing though as angels, and love not It is to weave the cloth with threads the singing, you muffle man’s ears to the voices drawn from your heart, of the day and the voices of the night.”47 47 Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet (NY, NY: Alfred A.