By Marcus Bankuti Local Journalism Initiative Reporter\u00a0 Shantak Vollant has been curling for around five years, but when she first stepped into \u201cthe shed,\u201d as members of the Lachine Curling Club call their arena, she was surrounded by something she\u2019d never seen before – something shocking and discomforting to her. The Innu curler tried to focus on her game, but it wasn\u2019t 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\u2019keh\u00e1:ka and French colonists. \u201cTo sweep or not to sweep,\u201d 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,… <\/p>\n
By Marcus Bankuti Local Journalism Initiative Reporter\u00a0 Shantak Vollant has been curling for around five years, but when she first stepped into \u201cthe shed,\u201d as members of the Lachine Curling Club call their arena, she was surrounded by something she\u2019d never seen before – something shocking and discomforting to her. The Innu curler tried to focus on her game, but it wasn\u2019t 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\u2019keh\u00e1:ka and French colonists. \u201cTo sweep or not to sweep,\u201d 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,... <\/p>\n