’Uy’ skweyul ‘Uy’ kwunus ’i lumnamu. Good day, it is good to see you (School District 79 Aboriginal Education, n.d.). My name is Jessyca Little and I am honored to have be born and raised on the traditional territory of the Snuneymewx First Nations, in Nanaimo, British Columbia, something I was not aware of until I turned 25 years old. I have created this video as an authentic, public, decolonizing response to the issues of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people and the Calls for Justice outlined in the National MMIWG Report, but also as a tool to help all Canadians understand what their part is and how they can decolonize the dominant structures in society. I want to honor traditional Indigenous storytelling and oral history by sharing a poem I wrote that considers what I have learned about the aspects of decolonization. This poem is my commitment, as well as, a proposal to all other people and governments to engage with deconstructing the dominant ideologies that perpetuate and sustain oppression of indigenous people, especially Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people. 
-Jessyca
 
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