History – Gayle Nemeth: Writing The Will

If It Is Made for Good, It’s Good

I had not expected to find myself driving down into the Qu’Appelle Valley that crisp but brilliantly sunny morning last October. As I looked across, I saw the valley and the hills as a palette of people’s lives over generations, their history a small slice relative to the valley’s glacial formation. Three days earlier, I’dContinue reading “If It Is Made for Good, It’s Good“

Lost Harvests

Saskatoon farm with a cow behind barbed wire

“Andrew was one of the best farmers in the area” —my grandmother’s words as we stood in the kitchen that summer day. I remember wondering even then at the age of 9 what it would have been like to farm in any capacity on the reserve – let alone be one of the best inContinue reading “Lost Harvests”