I was born in the geographical middle of Turtle Island, so I guess I’m native to this land. I might not be alive at all if an aboriginal couple had not shown my Icelandic ancestors how to survive a prairie winter.
Relations between cultures in proudly diverse Canada have been good sometimes, and friendly. Mostly not so good, though, let’s be honest. There’s still plenty of fear, dislike and ignorance abounding.
I don’t want to play the blame game, because my non-aboriginal side would lose. If we started over today, erasing all past mistakes, we’d still lose. It wouldn’t even be close. I wonder if we’ll ever get better?
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Joni, I looked up “Aho” and see that two meanings are common for this aboriginal word… either “Thank you” or “I agree”. Do you mean either of those?
I assume you are not using it in the Japanese sense … “idiot”. 🙂
“Miigwetch”, which means Thank You