Laura Gagnon

Happy birthday to my true love, my best friend, & the one person who truly makes me feel like the luckiest girl in the world!! You ALWAYS spoil me 🥰, whether that be the gifts you get when you go to powwows, or making sure I’m always taken care of when we’re together.

I truly value your love, your kindness and your gentleness with me 💕. I wish I was with you to celebrate today but we’ll make up for it when I get time off from the work I do 🥰🥰🙂🙂 Mino dabishkan Gizaagiin my love Happy Birthday I love you so much babes 💓🎈🎉🎂🥰

Felt like sharing some pics of my trip to Cali a few years ago. San Francisco, CA is by far one of the most beautiful places I’ve been to! I’d love to go back soon!! All I know is that the Westcoast looked good one me 🙌🏽🌊✨

The Westcoast is simply a vibe ✨ Seeing the ocean 🌊 & hiking among the Redwood trees 🌳 which are HUGE, makes it feel like you’re in another world, it’s just so majestic ✨

I started working out 💪🏽 again after taking time to heal a previous injury that held me up for awhile. I began feeling amazing but for the last 2 weeks I kinda fell off because work has been so consuming 😩.

Don’t get me wrong, I have a pretty good job I just need to be accountable to my other goals as well. Blessed 😇 to have good genes because when I work out regularly I get like fit fit 😅.

Sometimes you gotta give that man back to his mom, and leave like his Dad. Real deadly quote I heard today 😅🤣

Very insightful 3 day experience here at Apitipi Anicinapek Reserve, as I attended the All Chiefs NAN Keewaywin Conference.

This is where Chiefs pass resolutions in order to affirm their stance on issues related to our ways of governing. I will always stand up ✊🏽 for my people, we’ve been through enough 🪶✨

Last week I had the opportunity to fly on a charter to visit the community of Fort Albany. It’s near the James Bay coast & the people here said that this river is actually very low for this time of year.

I felt very honoured to be welcomed into the community, to serve dinner at the community feast, & listen to their language & stories 🪶 surrounding child welfare & family wellbeing.

Hearing the language made me emotional 🥹 at one point, as one Elder described living on the land, and having more than enough; but now things are much harder & harder for people in community. Feeling very fortunate to share space with my people everyday 🪶✊🏽

According to legend, an Anishinaabe Chiefs daughter saved the people of her village by leading members of the Sioux tribe down a 130 foot drop off of these falls 😳. She was a brave warrior 🪶

While I was on these trails, I felt an immense weight. I felt anxious & like I had trouble breathing 😮‍💨. I looked up the stories surrounding this area, and I saw that the Ojibwe people (my people ✊🏽✊🏽) saw rocks within the cavity of the caves as an evil spirit 😬😬.

Wild to me that I was able to pick up on all that energy (I only read up on the stories after the hike)!!