What I have come to understand is that everyone is a Light. The skin is only a blanket, and underneath that blanket is Light. When a Circle is made, it makes all the Lights brighter, and that gets the attention of the Spirits – the Grandmothers and Grandfathers. It doesn’t matter who is in that Circle; at that point we’re the human family.– Gwen Bear, in The Gatherings: Reimagining Indigenous-Settler Relations, by Shirley N. Hager and Mawopiyane, University of Toronto Press, 2021, p. 32.
