Blog #2

As an aboriginal council member and someone who speaks the endangered Tsuut’ina, it would be devastated to find out that someone had destroyed early evidence of our language and our history ("11 graduates trained", 2012). Although there are discrepancies about whether or not there were indeed markings on the rock, it is still an outrage. It’s still the precedents that an individual would go out with a set agenda to wreck an item in nature; potentially one with a vast amount of knowledge pertaining to an ancient tribe’s language.

I feel that the language and the history is the “heart” to any group of people. Just like the heart in the body, we cannot exist without one. For groups of people it is very similar. Whether the group is still around or it has become extinct that does not matter. The language keeps the history of the people alive and without it there is nothing for the future generations to learn. Who will be there too tell others the stories about what we have done when we are gone if our symbols are destroyed?

It constantly seems like there are individuals who are out there who purposely sabotage items that are important to our ancestor’s history. Why must they do this do they not realize that we are people with feelings as well? 

Work Cited

11 graduates trained to teach ailing tsuu t'ina language. (2012, March 21). CBC Calgary . Retrieved from http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2012/03/21/calgary-tsuu-tina-first-nation-language.html

Aboriginal rock etchings destroyed on southern alberta's glenwood erratic rock. (2012, September 18). Huffington post canada. Retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/09/18/aboriginal-etchings-destroyed-in-southern-alberta_n_1894129.html

Wood, D. (2012, September 21). Glenwood erratic vandalism claims crumble. Calgary Sun . Retrieved from http://www.calgarysun.com/2012/09/21/glenwood-erratic-vandalism-claims-crumble