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  • About me
  • Blog
  • In my own words
    • Rights & Responsibilities: Implementing UNDRIP in B.C. and in our own Communities
    • Reclaiming Indigenous Place Names
    • Looking Under the Hood of the Constitutional Mechanics of Aboriginal Law
    • Being in Good Relations
    • Decolonizing Water: A Conversation with Aimée Craft
    • A place for Indigenous peoples on Canada’s top bench
    • OPINION: The 10th Session of the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
    • R v Daybutch
    • 1,000 Families Project: Christina and Family
    • Christina Gray: Why I wore regalia to my call to the bar
    • National Aboriginal Day Celebrations
    • Here's how you can help ensure recognition for Indigenous athletes
    • Time for reconcili(action)
    • Report finds Kinder Morgan proposal violates First Nation legal principles
    • Across Canada ceremonies remembered stolen sisters
    • Timeline: Burnaby Mountain pipeline protests
    • Is the grass greener for Grassy Narrows?
    • dancing around the issue
    • New Musqueam House Post at Allard Hall
    • Sweetgrass
    • Joseph Desjarlais Interview
  • In the media
    • Five Freedoms: Freedom from Oppression
    • What are the Indigenous 'Big House' Laws that Jody Wilson-Raybould Invoked?
    • Stratford Festival Forum explores oppression and how it shapes individuals and society
    • Gerald Stanley acquittal
    • Who Did Your Ink?: Christina Gray tattoos her brother's art
    • UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Is Canada Living Up to It's Commitment?
    • Law student plans to wrap herself in First Nations heritage at graduation
    • Soon-to-be lawyer wins right to wear regalia when she is called to the bar
    • New lawyers honour their culture
    • Christina Gray To Wear First Nations Regalia To Ontario Bar Call
    • First Nations law student gets OK to wear regalia to call to bar in Ontario
    • Names erased: How Indigenous people are reclaiming what was lost
    • ‘Shift in perspective:’ Indigenous place names moving Canada from colonial past
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Grounded by Songs

September 29, 2016 Christina Gray

My drawing on the flyer from Encuentro de Ninez y Juventud Indígena de Abya Yala, 2008.

“Stay calm and decolonize”. These were the strong, yet pithy words that singer, Buffy Sainte-Marie, commanded the audience to consider when asked about Canada’s impending 150th birthday at AGO Creative Minds earlier this month.

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In Music Tags Indigenous, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Uganda, Regina, Alana Madill, Jerry Collins, PhilGray, Ts'msyen, Tsimshian, Lax Kxeen, Melanie Mark, BC Legislature, Grounding, Decolonizing, Decolonization, Decolonize and stay calm
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