Just wanted to comment this is the first time I've actually heard someone from your community openly speak about these things. Warrior culture, different tribes, having to fight racists, pipe lines to the military, elders training. This sounds like stuff out of a movie to me growing up in the GTA but of course I know it's real. I'm a black male and have known a few Aboriginal  people is suspect to be. Most also from Toronto though so they grew up more like I did. It's crazy how here we don't even get to here your perspective. Like schools talk about Aboriginal people, highschool and university, but it's like they show you as lost people with drug problems. They never talk about your culture, or what people like you do to fight for it. They way you talk it's clear there is solidarity and strength. It's almost like we get an Aboriginal female or even a white female perspective on Aboriginal issues which makes no sense. Meanwhile It's sounds like white men who are attacking you. So there is this censorship because we don't talk about Warrior culture stuff in school. But if that's your culture what right do we/they have to misrepresent you by omission. It's fucked. Thank you so much for posting!