Blanket Exercise

In the past semester, I had the chance to attend a blanket exercise. Diane Labelle, an Indigenous woman from Kahnawake, was in charge of the activity. Each person had to bring a blanket, which was used to represent an Indigenous community. We also all had different roles and outcomes, which became known as Diane Labelle was telling us the story of Indigenous people in Canada. Indeed, she told us about historical events and atrocities Indigenous communities have had to face since the arrival of Europeans. As she was doing so, she visually expressed the statistics and numbers by folding our…