Where I Come From – Omushkegowuk Aski - Windspeaker.com

Where I Come From – Omushkegowuk Aski Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share   By Xavier Kataquapit Attawapiskat First Nation is my home community and it was where I was born and raised with my family. When I think about where I grew up, I feel like I came from some different country or part of the world that is not part of Canada at all. It was so different to everything I later learned was outside my home community. My first language is Inineemoon, or as its known in the English language, ‘Cree’.  We never referred to ourselves as ‘Cree’. That was a descriptor that was applied to us by Eu…