“As I write this, there are numerous acts of teaching, healing, resistance, and mutual aid, happening in the name of Indigenous people and their lives. As a writer and feminist, I am grateful and inspired. As a non-Indigenous Black Canadian, however, I find myself trying to better understand the place I hold in the Canadian "mosaic", and any harm I may unwittingly be supporting.”

"Instead I became ceremony" is a photo series created by Mecoh Bain featuring Kyle Young Pine, a Kainai Blackfoot Fancy Dancer. Kyle is seen to be fancy dancing in traditional Regalia, a symbolic prayer for healing for himself, nature, and humanity by the Bow River in Alberta.