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posted by Natascia Lypny on Jan 22, 2013 - View profile
Shubenacadie, Indian Brook, Halifax
TRAIL OF FIRE Idle No More March to Citadel Hill
Mi'kma'ki International Days of Action!
10:00am
Sunday January 27 2013 - 4:00pm
Monday January 28 2013
A group of First Nations Youth are walking 1100km in -40 weather from Northern Quebec to Parliament for the next two weeks and the elders and youth feel that immediate action is needed to support them while they walk for us. We'll walk for our Children, to honor our Residential School Survivors, to stand up for our Treaty and Human Rights, and to save Mother Earth. We'll embark on this march to show Canada that we walked and took care of these lands long before they got here, and we'll always be here to stand up for them!
We'll begin our March on Sunday, Jan 27th at the Shubenacadie Residential School Grounds. We'll start with ceremony, drumming and singing for all those we've lost and pray for our survivors. We'll march in solidarity from the Shubenacadie Residential School Grounds back to Indian Brook First Nation (roughly 10 km). The walk will be broken up into two days where we walk and end our ceremonies in the community and then continue the next day where we'll march across the MacDonald Bridge, up to Citadel and have the biggest Round Dance Halifax has ever seen!
The Residential School Grounds is a symbolic and powerful place for us to begin our Trail. Our destination, Citadel Hill, is where the proclamation stems from Governor Cornwallis making it legal for settlers to hunt and scalp Mi'kmaqs. This proclamation was still legal in the 1990s so this place is also symbolic to us. We need to take our power back, round dance, sing and pray there to remind Canadians that this movement is not going anywhere! Not until our history is revealed, not until Bill C-45 is repealed and not until our issues are dealt with!
Bring your drums, regalias, flags, posters and voices!! Everyone is welcome!!! #Pun Jeno'lti'k!
***RCMP will be involved while marching from Shubenacadie to Indian Brook to assure the safety of everyone. They will also assist us in our Halifax bridge walk up to Citadel Hill***
Also, for those of you can't join us on the Sunday March at the Residential School Grounds on the 27th, please meet us at the MacDonald Bridge at 10am on the 28th to march the rest of the way with us to Citadel Hill. Prayer will begin at Citadel Hill around 12pm. And then we will Round Dance in the Halifax Commons.***
***Warm food and beverages will be served and waiting for us at the Commons!***
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