Native Women's Fan Club - NEW!!!!!!!!!

This was a fun night. Sunday, January 29th, 2006, met with Bevery Jacobs, President of Native Women's Association of Canada, at a mutual friends house for dinner. It was a wonderful evening, of five, strong Native women collaborating on life, laughter, and yummy food.

I can't say enough how much this night meant to me. As a native woman, part of the struggles I have had to overcome, was from within the Aboriginal community, in addition to "outside" forces. The discussions we had that night laid that out as one of the commonalities experience by all five. There are few safe habours in society, that the three of the five being single mothers, not further burdened with additional difficulties of being Native woman.

We had decided that night that we were going to form a Native Women's Fan Club. Yay!

The way things are now, are not how they always were nor how they always will be. As a Native woman, I have hope that this will come to pass.


I want to lay to rest the idea that the missing/murdered Aboriginal women of Canada chose their fates, and I will never be happy with societies concensus that these ladies are all "drugged out whores". I want this a day (Spring Equinox) to help support those who have been weakened by this negative view instilled by society.

Once again, I reiterate, these are our children, sisters, aunties, mothers, grandmothers, friends................and if nothing else matters, then they were at least citizens of this country, which they should have been given the judicial fairness afforded to all citizens, including the search for justice against those who did wrongs against them.

The fact that they were treated less than, indicates that, in particular, these Aboriginal women are thought of less then. For the generalized view of those that have fallen, to be carried over to those Native women still alive, indicates to this very much alive and kicking Native women, that there are those who must think the same of me.

And if not for my sisters who have fallen, than be it for my daughter, that I will fight like hell to make societies view towards Native women transform. From a negative, degraded view, to one where the contributions in the creation of this country are openly acknowledged for their value and worth. That Native Woman are valued and have worth. For those who live in freedom today conveniently choose to not be aware, this privelige was given in a large part by the hands, backs and bodies of Native women.

That their ancestors could live yesterday, now Native women should die today.

G