Comments on: The past is another country…probably several other countries by the time we get there.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:25:25 +0000

Without joking - the last paragraph of this blog I’ve done literally thousands and thousands of times. I often think about that when there are conflicts between my children’s people and us (the non-aboriginal population).

By: Jean

Jean — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:04:11 +0000

Thank you! I’m glad that you enjoyed it. always lots of love to you…Jean

By: Dick

Dick — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:28:40 +0000

This is very evocative prose, Sister. It makes my first essay into the land of blogs a pleasant trip. It is an exercise of our imagination to move into the space of people who were so mobile over such scarcely settled landscapes. I feel only haltingly able to go there in my visual mind. There is one scene in the CBC/NFB film I worked on (The Cree of Paint Hills) where the cameraman pulls his telephoto zoom all the way back from two hunters looking for seals, along the coast of James Bay. My words are droned by a resonant CBC voice, to the effect of “It is hard to imagine anything ever changing in this vast land.” And I feel myself more settled than at any other time in my life, and am pretty content with that. Lots of love, Dick