text: Back in 2004 I was working for a First Nations community and we took some community members on an excursion from northern Ontario to Ottawa (and later Montreal and Kahnawke). We went to Parliament Hill and one of the young people asked me why there were no statues or memorials to First Nations people there. During that project, I was asked by the hotel where I was staying not to bring "those people" to the hotel (I left and slept at the band office). I also realised, that in my late 30's I had never learned a single word from any of Canada's 54 native languages in my supposedly multicultural country. I am proud of my country but those of us who are not native need to know more about our history, our agreements with First Nations, but even more, we should be open to appreciating the rich cultural diversity and world views they have to offer. We will all be better for it! Meegwich.