What is a Blanket Exercise?

Not so long ago, I participated to a blanket exercise, with the elder Diane Labelle. I had absolutely no idea what it consisted of, but I can tell you, it changed my life. In a few words, a blanket exercise is the narration of the First Nation’s story, once the European arrived on their territories called “Turtle Island”. Everybody brings a blanket that constitutes the Indigenous territory, which were taken away by the European when they settled down in America. On 15 blankets, 2 remained at the end, meaning that the First Nation communities lost more than 3 quarters of their land, and the…