POOR ANNIE POOTOOGOOK – ABORIGINALS WILL NEVER FORGET HER!!!

It’s not just upsetting to see one of Canada’s foremost Artists to be found dead in the river. Tears come to my eyes as I see a reflection of the disparity of how Aboriginal women are treated in the eyes of persons in positions of authority and power, as compared to what happens when a famed and honoured Caucasian military general, General Romeo Dallaire hits hard times, because of atrocities he saw in Rwanda.

The acclaimed Artist Annie Pootoogook showed to humanity how devastated the Aboriginal Inuit world became, as the ever grasping, and greed empowered modern world spewed out its filth and destruction upon Annie Pootoogook’s world. Her people live in tremendous hardships. Her eyes saw this world as no one else could. In her art she shows reality to the world. It’s devastating to our Aboriginal heart, to see our people being destroyed. Drunk to cover the memories of lost Eden. The depletion of the ozone layer results in a receding polar ice cap, which destroys the Inuit way of life. Polar bears, seals and other northern creatures die before Inuit eyes.

She came from this other world, and revealed this dying world to humanity. And when she died, an ignorant Ottawa police officer, said basically, this is just another drunken aboriginal who died, who cares.

Well, Romeo Dallaire was found drunk through alcoholism sleeping on park benches. This resulted because of atrocities he saw in Rwanda. He too gave a message to the world. Romeo told of inhuman destruction and atrocities on the other side of the world. It nearly destroyed him. He was honoured as a great man. She died in obscurity. This attitude must stop. Our aboriginal peoples lives are worth something in the eyes of society, and in the eyes of our Creator. God loved Annie, and God loves Romeo equally. No one is better than anyone in the eyes of our God and Creator.

Frank Taiotekane Horn, Mohawk Indian