On the 13th of October, our class partook in the Blanket Exercise run by Diane Labelle, an elder from Kahnawake. I found that it was quite an interesting and moving way to share and learn history instead of in the traditional classroom with lectures. I think through this, I learned and understood a lot more about the effects of colonization in Canada than I would have in a regular class. I had gotten one of the ‘scrolls’ that talked about the importance of community and was able to read it out before being one of the first to die from diseases coming from trading blankets with the Europeans…