By Marcus Bankuti Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Shantak Vollant has been curling for around five years, but when she first stepped into “the shed,” as members of the Lachine Curling Club call their arena, she was surrounded by something she’d never seen before – something shocking and discomforting to her. The Innu curler tried to focus on her game, but it wasn’t easy to forget the 12 murals hanging on the walls, scenes from a fictional match on the St. Lawrence River, set hundreds of years ago, between caricatures of Kanien’kehá:ka and French colonists. “To sweep or not to sweep,” reads one. The French man, musket on his back, passes his broom in front of a rock as a Mohawk man beside him, feather standing tall above his head,…
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