What we don’t need

An expert, in the audience asks why we didn’t invite a linguist

to our Michif & endangered languages panel

It’s because what we don’t need is another expert,

another expert         to inform us our direct action on human rights was a rebellion

another expert to perpetuate a belief that our Michif language

is either poor Cree or broken French

another expert to teach us how to be farmers at St. Paul-des-Métis or Red River

when “our failures” were the state’s misguided pilot projects in civilization,

another expert to deny that our Creation stories — momentous

when the Clovis theory slowly crumbles under our small, small stories,

another expert to sell us script as our homeland

when most of it was speculated and today, we have no homeland at all

another expert to tell us our spiritual beliefs are “heathen”

when what this planet needs is Earth-centred beliefs

no, what we don’t need is

another expert who can be bought by industry and government

to lead us to our own destruction