We were setting up for our program today when we noticed that our Assistant Director had taken all of our ceremony supplies. Our Eagle fans and all of our medicines, etc. When the rest of the office finds out on Monday, they will not take it well. This will be seen as lateral violence. Wayne is going to lose his shit and go storming in at head office about it. We all have to deliver culture to our programs, and we can’t even do so much as a smudge now. We use it for ourselves also. Wayne starts every shift with ceremony. He does a smudge, plays the rattle, and sings a song or two. All of that was taken.
Wait until they hear that they were taken to be given away to council. I was the one who walked with the ED and AD when they were at our office last. They had a us vs them attitude. They had nothing nice to say while we were talking about the space and all of the clutter. The AD had a problem with seeing our sacred ceremony supplies anywhere. She feels they should be locked up or something, but we had an empty office, so all of our programs put our ceremony supplies in there, so it was accessible. We have houseless people from community come to do smudges and take medicines. The ED and AD were looking for items to gift council, I can’t believe they came and helped themselves to this. It is like ransacking an altar at a church for us. They didn’t ask; they just acted like everything was theirs for the taking.
Our participants have bundles that we have them breaking in. They have little smudge bowls and a feather, and some sage. We will get through ceremony today. I doubt they took our buffalo robe. Like, they have their own budget. Get your own ceremony supplies!! Don’t just come steal everyone else’s!
I am sure this will blow over, but I think we should petition that they replace everything they took and for each individual program that they stole from.
I’m getting myself riled up. We had a staff BBQ yesterday. The AD was there. She is going through this saga with us. Long back story short, our Executive Director was suspended and someone from the province has taken over and has been firing people left, right, and center. Her assistant is the one who came at me in an email about shit that they tried to reframe as misconduct. I am hoping that it is behind us now; all signs point to it that it is. She is a very intense person. Her energy is extremely dense. It is not her fault right now, but she showed up for us at the BBQ and wants to make this a monthly thing. The new Cultural Advisor, who starts on the 5th, made an appearance. I wasted no time and started talking to him. I suspect that he will be moving into the office next to mine. That is where all of our ceremony supplies was. They have someone painting that office right now. Maybe the AD took all of those supplies to keep them safe? That would be best case scenario. He is a proper Elder with his own lodge, and I am looking to join one. A lodge is like a church or temple. Creator doesn’t have rules, just ceremonies so we can understand him better.
Anyway, I had another night of no sleep. I am heading to my sister’s tonight to visit her and her kids. I’ll leave around noon tomorrow to visit my bestie. Also, my website is still not up. I’m able to design it at least. I’ll reach out to the site that is hosting it to make sure that this isn’t eating away at my free trial. This is so menacing. Like, why should I waste my time designing a site that they might not even be able to make public? I don’t want to lose my domain name by transferring to a different site. Blah, on with my day then. I have my headphones on because I am avoiding my roommate. She is buzzing around the apartment in ADHD wait mode. Her first fight is tonight. She has the best fight ticket of the year and will have an audience of over 1000 people. She is starting to get nervous. I just want some peace and quiet. As soon as I seem available, she will go on and on, and I’m just tired and cranky still.
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