I’m Indigenous Canadian and the morals and life lessons I learned from my parents and Elders is that … this life is temporary and it is the same for everyone else, no matter who they are, where they come from, how intelligent or wealthy they are … we were born from the earth and in the end, we all return to the earth.

I am tribal myself and identify with my ethnic group but at the same time, I was taught that every human is a human is a human. We all bleed, we all break, we all cry, we all get cold, we get hot, we eat and we take a shit … all of us are the same no matter who you say you are or what you want to believe.

The things that are important is in what we do for one another no matter who it is. The things I was taught was to try to do my best for my family and those around me and to be good to others.

And the main reason to be good is to make life one step better for the next generation of people after you. You aren’t living life for your convenience, you are doing things now that will affect the lives the those after you. Personally, I don’t have children, but the lessons I learned apply to me, my family and everyone of those people to come after me, whether I am related to them or not is irrelevant.