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Painterly image of an Indigenous woman in profile, gazing at a misty sunset over water with blurry figures and trees.

Painterly image of an Indigenous woman in profile, gazing at a misty sunset over water with blurry figures and trees.

Can you create art like a painting like the ones in the picture. But use the quote for inspiration- Can you create a painting that represents all of this and that I can put the writing over it - GE 1 I started this course thinking advocacy was simple. Just speaking up. Just giving kids a voice. Just… doing the “right” thing. I held that belief like a small stone in my hand… light, smooth, unexamined. PAGE 2 I knew about the UNCRC. I knew the words “participation.” I thought that was enough. But agency… the real, messy, relational kind… was still hidden beneath the surface. And I hadn’t learned how to look. PAGE 3 Then Dr. Knight spoke. And advocacy stopped being a chapter and became a mirror. As an Indigenous woman, her words were not theory… they were memory, history, responsibility. Advocacy wasn’t out there anymore. It was in me. PAGE 4 I realized advocacy is tied to land, power, story, and the harm still echoing through my Red River community. It’s not just helping others. It’s repairing what was broken… and refusing to let silence become policy again. PAGE 5 Abebe (2019) taught me that agency is not a seed children carry alone. It grows from families, communities, systems… the soil around them. Advocacy isn’t stepping in. It’s making space. Stepping back. Opening the circle so the unheard can finally enter. PAGE 6 Week 3 made me ask different questions: Who is missing? Who is silenced? Who is named… but not heard? I learned to listen not just with ears, but with See more