“Unraveling the Secrets of ‘Traditions of a Mutt’: What Your Dog’s Mixed Breed Can Teach You About Love and Loyalty”
In 2017, I returned to British Columbia and straight back to work, straight back to the status of regular white girl. After my two years in Asia, I was sent to work in the highland hills north of Williams Lake, in a place called Riske Creek. It had only been four days of my feet on Canadian soil. BC was aflame and I was working in a fire camp in the middle of a charred field, feeding firefighters out of mobile trailers. My older sister soon joined me for work.
The Riske Creek Reservation was the closest community nearby, a few kilometers away. So, the two of us went for a drive. We were pulling up to the gas station when I remembered I had recently lost my Métis card. Even with sun-kissed skin, I was as white as they come. So into the back I went. Lucky for us, Damara’s back seat was full of tossed around luggage and backpacks, along with unraveled sleeping bags, blankets, and pillows. Loose beer cans and coke bottles bumped around the car floor.
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