"Sorry" Campaign

Contemporary Aboriginal poetry is an important part of Aboriginal art.
Many poems express how Aboriginal people feel today.Their poems are about the challenges that they share with non-Indigenous people but also about problems specific to their lives.
My work was inspired by poem of Samuel Mclean:

Burning Tree

In the words from a white Prime Minister, 'sorry'?

You think that justice has been served?

But where is my family tree the one that I deserved?

I lost mine in one generation, a generation where white man's justice was often curved.

We never asked for a 'sorry' in a politician's words,

We asked for respect, a respect which needs to be earned.

But you will never get this off me, you lost it long ago.

The only time i will give you mine

Is when you find my grandma's name,

The name the white man burned!

by Samuel Mclean

Final Work

Since the dawning of time, it has been the traditional role of women to attend other women in labor and birth.
Midwives were the doctors, the counselors, the shaman, the healers, the pediatricians, the birth professionals, the mashkiki and the midewikwe. Doulas were the women-helpers; women of age who had been-there-done-that, were old enough to understand the work being done, the servants of the heart and bodyWhat happen now?Woman usually view birth as a painful and dangerous event. Now they expect a medicated birth to provide relief from pain and to ensure their safety and a child. It has become popular for women to plan Cesarean sections to avoid birth. American women are effectively becoming incapable of birth, thanks to our fear of it. I believe that it’s necessary for us to confront our fears by learning different techniques. I have come to understand that birth is a natural and unforgettable part of our lives.