Play is a Sign of Life, with Pulxaneeks

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I’m glad and grateful to be presenting the following guest. Her vocation is as an Indigenous relations consultant, which is to say she helps settler folks like myself learn to be in good relations with the original peoples of this land.

This involves far more than introducing people and smoothing communications. For folks like myself to be in good relations with indigenous people, there’s groundwork to be laid: a reckoning with history, both recent - in the colonisation of these lands - and ancient: the colonisation of the colonisers’ ancestors and land. There’s ancestral work to be done, and a reckoning with the fact that hurt people hurt people, and a seeking of the origins of that hurt.

Serious work, this healing work. So serious that you can’t do it without some play.

Who is this guest?

Allow me to introduce Pulxaneeks, from the Eagle clan of the Xanuxlia Haisla First Nation.

I’ll give a wee introduction, then say a little about different kinds of introductions.

To say she’s an ‘indigenous relations consultant’, is true, yet far too brief an introduction. It’s convenient to say on an elevator full of busy people, but too short to say to people who are not busy, and want to know more deeply about those they’re introduced to.

Listen on for her introduction, full of the rivers of ancestors flowing into her, both ancient and recent. Full of land and heart.

You might learn something about your own deep rivers of ancestry.

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