It is an honor to share with you our story. Indeed, this story has been told throughout all our lives - it is embedded in our heritage, and finds its climax on the highest peaks of humility and sacrifice. This story, while universal in its scope, is deeply rooted in the recent history of North American Indigenous peoples.

Alcohol, drugs, violence, neglect... the dark horizon projected by these issues has kept our culture from finding success in many areas of life, especially those where we once flourished. Prior to contact with other cultures, Indigenous people lived in harmony with our one constant unifier: Mother Earth. In today’s society, however, the need for the self-sustained individual has supplanted community health - where a “survival of the fittest” attitude has shifted our entire cultural perspective. Instead of living in harmony, we live in competition. Rather than caring for one another, we care for the “bottom line”.

Using alcohol and drugs as the catalyst for a community-wide change of consciousness, a group of students at Southeast Collegiate have broke ground on the massive issue of alcohol and drug abuse in Aboriginal communities. What started as a mere effort to curb the drinking habits of the students, has since brought forth the first glimmer of the New Day that awaits us. The “Day, that shall not be followed by night”.