This Blue Star

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Indigenous Language Revitalization | Writer | Beadwork | Whatever else I want | BA Onkwehonwe Languages ♉️🌈 #IndigenousLanguageRevitalization #CollaborationCultureBack #LanguageBack

Comrade, I did not want to kill you ... But you were only an idea to me before, an abstraction that lived in my mind and called forth its appropriate response. It was that abstraction I stabbed. But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellow-ship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony-Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy? (Remarque, 1982, p. 223).

Laura stands at a podium while reading her poetry.

Palm trees on Port Dover Ontario beach at sunset

Work in progress, knitted bandana cowls

3 candles on a table - one is burning. Candles are labeled: Academic Auntie, Real Deadly Research and Voices of Indigenous Indigenous Research.

A scenic photo of land with bullrushes in the front, a grassy area in the middle-ground, trees in the background and grey clouds in the sky.