Culture Revival


Old Indian culture -
Ojibway, Cree, Haida.
At the edge of the world - forgotten.
Should have died,
but did not.
Violence, neglect and hatred
could not kill it.

Old Indian culture -
Ojibway, Cree, Haida.

They live against all odds,
human heart etched in lakes and forests,
Reflects our neglect in a brooding sky,
setting to a loon’s call.

Old Indian culture keeps alive
How it is to be human.
They continue.

Old Indian culture -
Ojibway, Cree, Haida.
They do that.

Quetico
NW Ontario
August 22, 2000