Finally tonight. Tia Kennedy is an indigenous rights activist and Canada. But growing up, she struggled to access indigenous culture and practices as an adult. Kennedy says she's realized those practices helped thousands of years worth of wisdom to help improve individuals and society. Tonight, she shares her brief but spectacular take on generational healing. We grew up with a lot of health anxiety in my household because of things like not having access to clean water, and I remember there was one time I went to my friend's house, and they had offered me a glass of water, and then they took it from the top, and my mom got really concerned about it, and she had grown up in an environment where Drinking from the top was dangerous. And so in that instance she feared for my life by drinking out of the kitchen sink. So I come from to First Nations communities from southwestern Ontario. One of them is because going on which is what island First nation And on your taga United Nation of the Thames. My grandmother passed away from cancer, and we suspect it happened from the chemical dumping that was constantly happening close to our first nation and within the waterways. She died before the age of 40. Her sister died before the age of 30 and her other sister died before the age of 30 and just doesn't make sense how so much pollution can go into these waterways. And take matriarchs from our community at such young ages. Currently, there's about 50 to boil water advisories that are still in effect today across 33 1st Nation communities in Canada. When we don't have access to things like clean water, it's really heartbreaking to us waters and medicine. When people cry. We collect those tears because It's a form of medicine to us. We live what's called Minh Open Mods win, so the good life it's to ensure that we protect food for the next seven generations and We're never taking more than we need a huge part of who we are and our identity because we carry ancestral wisdom that we've held for thousands and thousands of years. You're really just doing a disservice to yourself by not including us into these conversations as initial robin as hundreds to Shoni people, we are responsible to be the caretakers of Mother Earth as a future ancestor. I I have a role in responsibility to fulfill and that is taking care of myself and taking care of my community and taking care of the planet so that I can ensure that the next seven generations will have a place to call home. My name is Tia Kennedy. And this is my brief but spectacular take
