Outreach group hosts land-based education session focusing on the role of water [Video]

The shoreline of Echo Valley Beach hosted several people looking to learn more about the role water plays in the lives of everyone.

“We all drink from the same river. And it’s one of the series of decolonization events that our group has coordinated with the generosity of elders and knowledge keepers who teach us and lead us in a good way,” said Amanda Dodge, a member of the KAIROS Prairies North Decolonization group.

According to Dodge, KIAROS is an ecumenical group that’s open to people who are interested in doing peace and justice work in their communities.

“We think it’s important to settlers, to be educating ourselves, to be opening our minds and hearts to the shifts that need to happen, to decolonize our ways of being and ways of seeing the world. Our group wants to be a tangible part of right relations between settler and Indigenous peoples …