When are we surviving and when are we thriving? What positions of privilege in society enable some people to take a break while others shoulder the burden of struggle and survival?

The horrific history of residential schooling, genocide and cultural repression of First Nations People in so-called Canada has impacts that reverberate and continue to re-traumatise people today. What might reconciliation look like? How can people support cultural resurgence?

Thank you to Meeka Noelle Morgan for her courageous conversation about how trauma and oppression can become a source of unending energy and how witnessing and listening to one another can help heal the wounds within families and between communities to work towards reconciliation and peace.

Meeka is involved in several musical collaborations as well as her ongoing education and storytelling workshops related to her Masters thesis: Making Connections With Secwepemc Family Through Storytelling: A Journey in Transformative Rebuilding that you can read by visiting http://cicac.tru.ca/readings/meeka-morgan.pdf

JUST is Indigenous Grassroots Woman Punk Collaboration between Secwepemc-Nuu-Chah-Nulth and Dakelh Warrior Sisters. Building consciousness and reflecting reality of their peoples experience, coming from generations of strength, dispossession, trauma, to healing and medicine.

The Melawmen Collective was created to transform and rebuild relationships between Aboriginal People and others through music, story, art and collaboration. Through their workshops and performances, reflections and experiences of these representations and perspectives shared will result in creating new collaborative works about the process of how exploring ways to tell our collective aboriginal stories become a way of creating new ones. You can listen to their music and support their work by visiting https://soundcloud.com/user7476886.