Kategorier: Alla - relationships - safety - companionship - faith

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Companionship as Salvation

The narrative revolves around the central importance of companionship and the various forms it takes within a community. Trust is often rooted in a shared Indigenous language, and familial bonds—

Companionship as Salvation

Companionship as Salvation

Family

Faith
Indigenous Religion

E.g Anyone who speaks the Indigenous language is trusted

Relationships
Blood Related

Parent's

E.g Dad

Sibling

E.g Mitch

Family from time together

E.g Rose

E.g Miig

Friends

Partnership
E.g Bringing people along for the journey for short periods of time.
Friendship
Same Interest

E.g Clarence

Childhood Friend
Relations
Family Friend

E.g Derrick

Shared Traumas

E.g Slopper

Coping

Caring
E.g When a group found Frenchie near death they took him into care and back to 100%
Inviting of Everyone
E.g To escape the residential schools, Indigenous people begun grouping together when they saw one another.

Safety

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

Goals

Common goal as a Collective
E.g Stop the making of residential schools
Common Enemy
E.g Recruiters