{"id":100681,"date":"2026-10-07T10:27:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T13:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/?p=100681"},"modified":"2026-10-07T10:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T13:41:12","slug":"beyond-damage-and-deficit-what-gets-missed-in-stories-about-first-nation-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/beyond-damage-and-deficit-what-gets-missed-in-stories-about-first-nation-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond damage and deficit: What gets missed in stories about First Nation communities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-dominant-color=\"d7ced1\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"978\" height=\"1280\" sizes=\"(max-width: 978px) 100vw, 978px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/88CB1B55-A4C4-4A23-80F8-E927D384BD0A-978x1280.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-100450 not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #d7ced1; aspect-ratio:0.7640650649156843;width:601px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/88CB1B55-A4C4-4A23-80F8-E927D384BD0A-978x1280.avif 978w, https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/88CB1B55-A4C4-4A23-80F8-E927D384BD0A-459x600.avif 459w, https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/88CB1B55-A4C4-4A23-80F8-E927D384BD0A-768x1005.avif 768w, https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/88CB1B55-A4C4-4A23-80F8-E927D384BD0A-1174x1536.avif 1174w, https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/88CB1B55-A4C4-4A23-80F8-E927D384BD0A.avif 1223w\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sacha DeWolfe, a member of Natoaganeg First Nation and an assistant professor at Mount Allison University, says focusing on damage and deficits can leave out important parts of life in First Nation communities. Photo: Mount Allison University.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has been a week since the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Several First Nation people who spoke with CHMA say much of what they want others to understand about their communities happens outside that annual day of attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Donna Augustine says that when someone dies in her community, people come to the family\u2019s home. Someone might put on tea or coffee while another person helps around the house. A sacred fire is lit outside. People cry with the family and stay through the wake and the feast that follows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe don\u2019t leave them in that time of really intense grief,\u201d Augustine said. \u201cBecause we know that at some point we\u2019re going to need that as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Augustine, a Mi\u2019kmaq ceremonial Elder from Elsipogtog and a culture and language teacher, says that sense of connection remains strong in her community. Children grow up surrounded by family and adult children know they can come home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe still have that real strong family unit,\u201d Augustine said. \u201cThere\u2019s so many beautiful things about our culture that people don\u2019t see.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sacha DeWolfe has explored why parts of that picture can be absent from the way First Nation communities are understood. DeWolfe, a member of Natoaganeg First Nation and an assistant professor at Mount Allison University, describes it as a damage and deficit understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Growing up, she said what she encountered about First Nation people in classrooms and the media often presented a problem that needed to be fixed. It didn\u2019t resemble the family she knew. DeWolfe described her mother as caring and hard-working, while her sisters went on to be successful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DeWolfe later explored the idea through her academic work. Difficult history still has a place in these conversations, she said, but it shouldn\u2019t be the only place they start. Statistics can also contribute to a deficit view when they are used to understand a community without the lives behind them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou cannot understand a person or a community by numbers or statistics like that,\u201d DeWolfe said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Damage goes further, she said, when an entire group of people comes to be understood as damaged. That can obscure the relationships within communities and what people are creating there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou miss just the beautiful way of life that\u2019s there, but also the innovative things that are happening, the contemporary things that are happening,\u201d DeWolfe said. \u201cWe\u2019re not just sitting there devastated from the colonization of our people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Augustine said Elders hold a particular place in families because of the knowledge and wisdom they have accumulated. \u201cThey took care of us when we were helpless, and now we take care of them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Language can carry those relationships too. Augustine described words for older children that come with responsibilities toward younger siblings, helping families continue if anything happened to the parents. Living around other speakers also gives people the chance to hear the language from Elders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That passing of knowledge was interrupted. Augustine said older generations could become afraid to teach children their language or cultural practices because they worried about the racism those children could face. She now sees young people moving in another direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey are taking pride in their culture,\u201d Augustine said. \u201cThey\u2019ll dress in their full regalia. They are learning the language.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She sees young people returning to practices that earlier generations were discouraged from carrying forward. \u201cThe drum was silent,\u201d Augustine said. \u201cBut now they\u2019re drumming.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Richard \u201cDick\u201d Paul remembers asking his parents to teach him their language when he was about 10 or 11. Paul, a Wolastoqey knowledge keeper from Kingsclear First Nation who previously taught Native Studies at Fredericton High School, said they refused, telling him he would \u201cnever get a job\u201d with his language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Paul later lived with his grandmother, she agreed to teach him on one condition: he couldn\u2019t tell his parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paul kept the secret until he was about 21. One day his parents were speaking about him in their language while he was sitting nearby. He surprised them by answering. His mother eventually began speaking the language with him, including when he drove her to bingo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt felt good to be able to learn that again and to speak the Native language,\u201d Paul said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Years later, Paul tried to organize a drumming group while teaching at Fredericton High School, but said students were too shy to participate publicly. At a Truth and Reconciliation event this year, he watched five young women who had attended the school drum during a ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNow we see the confidence in our young people becoming stronger,\u201d Paul said. \u201cThey\u2019re being more proud of who they are.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nicole Porter, an Indigenous student advisor, said she grew up without much of the cultural knowledge young people in her community are now seeking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFor me, I grew up without the culture, and I didn\u2019t know how to approach an Elder,\u201d Porter said. \u201cI didn\u2019t know what to say. I didn\u2019t know, like, what was a smudge or tobacco offering or anything like that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Porter said more young people are asking questions about their culture. As Elders feel safer teaching, she said her generation can learn from them before passing that knowledge on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stanley Barnaby, CEO of the Joint Economic Development Initiative, or JEDI, said success in First Nation communities does not always receive the same attention. In his work, he has watched communities create economic opportunities for themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have successful businesses. We have successful Indigenous people, and that is not celebrated enough,\u201d Barnaby said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Barnaby said JEDI has operated a business incubator for about eight or nine years. He has watched young First Nation entrepreneurs turn their interests into businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Karl Hele said Elders in his home community encouraged him to look at what people did in their everyday lives, not only colonialism and land loss. Hele, an Anishinaabe scholar from Garden River First Nation in Ontario and a professor and Canadian Studies program head at Mount Allison University, said those histories remain part of his research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He points to an old council hall in Garden River. The Indian agent exercised authority there, but community members also made the building their own. It became a place where people celebrated important moments in their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey saw it more as a place of community and celebration rather than as a band office where the Indian agent told us what to do,\u201d Hele said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Junior Peter-Paul, a Mi\u2019kmaq knowledge keeper from Elsipogtog First Nation, spoke during a Community Talk and Cultural Teaching at Mount Allison University. During the session, he gave participants rocks that they could keep afterward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peter-Paul said he wanted people to hold onto the rocks and think about \u201cwhere they stand, what they feel, and what they can learn out of them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Augustine describes some of the changes she sees today as intergenerational healing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are absolutely not victims,\u201d Augustine said. \u201cWe are still following the ways that the Creator gave us. We are still following the original instructions from the Creator, and we are very resilient. We are still here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When asked what journalists should pay attention to outside moments of crisis or days such as Sept. 30, Augustine said there are stories of success happening within First Nation communities throughout the year. She encouraged journalists to come and listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCome back and listen to the stories of success, what is working in our communities,\u201d Augustine said. \u201cWe have a lot to offer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a week since the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. 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