Some questions for settler folks to think about

To further reflect on ourselves and self-implicate, here are some questions to reflect on:

• Who gets to create walls to remain comfortable?
• Who doesn’t?
• Whose walls are respected and held up by authorities, legal systems, institutions, etc?
• What walls do we respect through “common sense”, reason, logic etc?
• Why does it seem natural to respect them?
• Which identities do these people hold?
• What are ways that folks without these identities change their own behaviour to make folks feel comfortable?
• What sort of stories don’t get heard?
• Why is telling/hiding these stories important for resistance/the dominant order?

Questions for settler folks to think about.

• What are the names of the traditional homelands upon which you currently live?
  • Where were the nearest residential schools and Indian hospitals and what were they called?
  • What do you know about territory disputes in these homelands? Are there current land claims?
  • What do you know about the spiritual and cultural practices in these homelands?
  • What do you know about the social and political organization?
• If you have lived or called elsewhere home on Turtle Island, what are the names of the traditional homelands there?
  • Where were the nearest residential schools and Indian hospitals and what were they called?
  • What do you know about territory disputes in these homelands? Are there current land claims?
  • What do you know about the spiritual and cultural practices in these homelands?
  • What do you know about the social and political organization?