08/28/2025
I might ruffle a few feathers with this post, and that’s okay. We can either talk about it like respectful people or you can scroll past. I’m speaking as an Indigenous person whose people have been here since long before Canada existed — before borders, before English, before “immigration” was even a word.
This land is our land. Our ancestors fought to protect it, lived in balance with it, and passed down languages, cultures, and laws that have been here for thousands of years. We never left. We never needed to “adapt” to someone else’s ways — the newcomers adapted to ours when they first arrived, learning how to survive from the very people they tried to erase.
If you come here from somewhere else, understand this: you are living on Indigenous territory. You are a guest. Respect the land, respect the language of the land, and respect the people whose ancestors are buried here. That means honoring our treaties (if you even have one with us), respecting our ceremonies, and not trying to change this place into a copy of somewhere else.
We speak Dene, Cree, Ojibwe, Inuktitut, Mohawk, and hundreds of other Indigenous languages — the first languages of this land. English and French are visitors here. Our spiritual ways and relationship to the Creator are part of this land’s foundation, long before Canada called itself a “Christian nation.”
If our ways offend you, if hearing our languages or seeing our flags and symbols bothers you, remember this: you are free to live anywhere else. But if you choose to stay, learn the real history of where you are, respect the First Peoples, and be part of the healing this land needs.
This is our home. Always has been, always will be.
We welcome respect, but we will never give up who we are.
I copied and pasted this:
and so should you.🪶
I might ruffle a few feathers with this post, and that’s okay. We can either talk about it like respectful people or you can scroll past. I’m speaking as an Indigenous person whose people have been here since long before Canada existed — before borders, before English, before “immigration” was even a word.
This land is our land. Our ancestors fought to protect it, lived in balance with it, and passed down languages, cultures, and laws that have been here for thousands of years. We never left. We never needed to “adapt” to someone else’s ways — the newcomers adapted to ours when they first arrived, learning how to survive from the very people they tried to erase.
If you come here from somewhere else, understand this: you are living on Indigenous territory. You are a guest. Respect the land, respect the language of the land, and respect the people whose ancestors are buried here. That means honoring our treaties (if you even have one with us), respecting our ceremonies, and not trying to change this place into a copy of somewhere else.
We speak Dene, Cree, Ojibwe, Inuktitut, Mohawk, and hundreds of other Indigenous languages — the first languages of this land. English and French are visitors here. Our spiritual ways and relationship to the Creator are part of this land’s foundation, long before Canada called itself a “Christian nation.”
If our ways offend you, if hearing our languages or seeing our flags and symbols bothers you, remember this: you are free to live anywhere else. But if you choose to stay, learn the real history of where you are, respect the First Peoples, and be part of the healing this land needs.
This is our home. Always has been, always will be.
We welcome respect, but we will never give up who we are.
I copied and pasted this:
and so should you.🪶
