Joel Holmberg had been batting the idea around for years. But the final decision came last month, as he scrolled through the online vitriol that erupted after a white farmer was acquitted of killing a young Cree man in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
Holmberg turned to social media, but instead of joining in the often-vicious debate surrounding that case, he offered to share his family’s five-acre property in northern Alberta with a First Nations family. There would be no bills, no rent, he explained.
Instead the family could join him, his wife and two children in living off the land; hunting, fishing and growing food....
“We all know in our heart the truth, that this is all stolen land,” said the 45-year-old. “They’re our hosts and we’re their guests and they’ve been criminally abused for far too long and it has to stop.”
Friday, March 2, 2018
'thief' offers to share
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
While greed trickles down, kindness is unable to trickle up.
ReplyDelete