'This is all stolen': Canadian man offers to share his land with First Nations

[Judi Lynn]

Joel Holmberg was appalled by vitriol against indigenous people. So he invited them to live on his property, rent-free

Ashifa Kassam in Toronto

@ashifa_k
Fri 2 Mar 2018 05.00 EST

Joel Holmberg had been batting the idea around for years. But the final decision came last month, as he scrolled through the online vitriol that erupted after a white farmer was acquitted of killing a young Cree man in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.

Holmberg turned to social media, but instead of joining in the often-vicious debate surrounding that case, he offered to share his family’s five-acre property in northern Alberta with a First Nations family. There would be no bills, no rent, he explained.

Instead the family could join him, his wife and two children in living off the land; hunting, fishing and growing food.

“I wanted to offer some sort of hope,” said Holmberg. “It was really disgusting to see the way the racist people were speaking. I wanted to let them know that it’s not everyone in Canada that feels that way.”

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/02/canada-first-nations-man-offers-land-rent-free-facebook

[pazzyanne]

1. Wow!

Actions speak louder than words!