Companionship as Salvation

Common Enemy

E.g Recruiters

Common goal as a Collective

E.g Stop the making of residential schools

E.g They end up in a collective group of Indigenous people, and choose to stay with the group.

Strength in Numbers

E.g The Indigenous only had fought at their will in a very large group for one of their own, an elder.

Inviting of Everyone

E.g To escape the residential schools, Indigenous people begun grouping together when they saw one another.

Caring

E.g When a group found Frenchie near death they took him into care and back to 100%

Relations

Shared Traumas

E.g Slopper

Family Friend

E.g Derrick

Friendship

Childhood Friend

Same Interest

E.g Clarence

Partnership

E.g Bringing people along for the journey for short periods of time.

Relationships

Family from time together

E.g Miig

E.g Rose

Blood Related

Sibling

E.g Mitch

Parent's

E.g Dad

Faith

Indigenous Religion

E.g Anyone who speaks the Indigenous language is trusted