By Xavier Kataquapit As we are ready to honour November 11, Remembrance Day I think about the destruction war has done to my James Bay Cree family and my partner Mike’s Irish Canadian family. When you are affected by the death, wounding or dramatization of family members you realize how the terrorism of war ripples on into generations. There is no glamour, no justice and no sense to any war ever fought that I can understand. In the First World War a recruiter made his way by canoe on the river systems all the way to Attawapiskat in 1916 and in fact more or less coerced a group of 22 young Cree men. He took them by canoe route south where these men ended up on a train which travelled…
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