Abitibi Canyon Short Story

This short story, Abitibi Canyon, by Joseph Boyden consists several of important principles of Indigenous people that I would like to make connections to my own life, the world around me, and a video talking about biased assumptions people make without meeting them.

While the two texts, the video Are You Judging a Book By It’s Cover and the short story Abitibi Canyon, the video talks about assumptions people made of each other by they was they dress and race when they are on a blind date, and the white people in the story judged the boys the way they acted. The two workers, Matthew and Darren, were talking and laughing in astonishment at the boys playing by the river calling them retarded Indians without meeting them. Once Matthew and Darren spent time with them, they got along with the boys and got comfortable with them, telling them information about the dam that would not be told

The narrator of the story also discusses the effects of their water has suddenly became muddy making the Indigenous people change everything from transportation to food to drinking water.

These two text are relevant to each other people because both issues have affected people's basic needs. Pipelines can contaminate water that leads to affecting the water, seafood, marine animals and First Nations' communities health.I can connect it to the history of built of pipelines when they do not construction crews don’t care whether they are in the way or not. When reading this passage it made me feel bother and infuriated when the water is affected because it affects people’s basic needs.

In conclusion, Abitibi Canyon by Joseph Boyden taught me many several important principles of Indigenous people that I connected to my own life and video; judgements and assumptions people make, and related the pipeline to the