By Xavier Kataquapit www.underthenorthernsky.com We celebrate Valentines Day with wishes for those we are romantically interested in or in general for good greetings to family and friends. However, the history of this day which is celebrated on February 14 is very different. Everyone grows up with the annual traditions that their parents followed without question. It is more strange to follow long standing European traditions when you come from an Indigenous background. We simply followed traditions like Valentine’s Day like the rest of the Canada because we were told so and no one ever wondered why. Early on it was viewed as a Christian holy day but over the past few generations it seems to have lost it’s Christian significance. My parents were born in the James Bay wilderness and…
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