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On the Wednesday morning of the 2020 Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute: Unsettling Histories | Decolonizing Discipleship | hukišunuškuy, Elaine again set the scene for the day's work by looking at the place where her ancestors came to and their complicity in the impacts on people of the not-vacant land, but a land under siege by government programs to drive the indigenous inhabitants (Cree) off the land. Ched contrasts this with the story of the settlement of the area around the Ventura River Watershed. Image: Young Chippewayan First Nation hereditary chief George Kingfisher raises the Treaty 6 flag at Mennonite Central Committee board member Ray Funk’s farm (left) near Stoney Knoll, SK during the Spruce River Folk Fest