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Approaching Fire by Michelle Porter
5.0
"Travel back West. Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, searching for the Red River trails, for the echoes left by family, wanting to touch my mother stories, holding them in my hand, like an old-time fiddler handling a traditional Métis song. I want to create a variation that will be my own."~pg.51
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"When a child's ancestral history includes certain kinds of events, some people use the term intergenerational trauma. It isn't uncommon for these children to be adults when the material they are carrying around starts smouldering. These colonial-based emotional fires are suppressed and passed down until the conditions are perfect for an incredible, awe-inspiring inferno. By this time, there's no way around it. You can only go through it."~pg.85
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"When a child's ancestral history includes certain kinds of events, some people use the term intergenerational trauma. It isn't uncommon for these children to be adults when the material they are carrying around starts smouldering. These colonial-based emotional fires are suppressed and passed down until the conditions are perfect for an incredible, awe-inspiring inferno. By this time, there's no way around it. You can only go through it."~pg.85
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