**Link to the October 2024 Article:
https://policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/minosin-kikiwa-%E2%80%9C-good-home%E2%80%9D-indigenous-older-adults-winnipeg

This article outlines the barriers that elderly Indigenous peoples are facing in Winnipeg, regarding locating affordable, community oriented, and livable-quality housing; barriers such as: language, technology, verbal abuse, physical abuse, financial abuse, systematic trauma, and poverty. Many of these barriers are intergenerational and will take a long time to rebuild, however the Indigenous Seniors Research Committee provides three recommendations for addressing the senior-Indigenous housing crisis in Winnipeg:
First, “Promote leadership by Indigenous people, especially older adults, in all levels of housing design and development, promoting collective decision-making and control in ownership, operation and service provision.”
Second, “Centre Indigenous values in the development and operation of appropriately resourced housing projects for Indigenous people and seniors.”
Third, “Expand family and community centred options through policy and design while supporting families and mitigating risks of elder abuse.”
I also believe that these processes of collaboration and decision making should be implemented into more than senior-Indigenous housing concerns alone; we ought to hear more voices of those who are entangled in perpetuating traumatic living conditions and make changes that will work to advantage our disadvantaged. In short––like King, Sitkala Sa, Erdrich, and Orange say––our colonial worldview is sick and needs to be redesigned for the benefit of all people, especially our Indigenous populations.

The following excerpt––which is shared within this article––was created by Vincent Lang:
Reflections of a Life
“I stare deep into his eyes. Memories are etched on his face.
I see the man he used to be. I see the man he is. I see the man he wants to be.
I stare deep into his eyes. My reflection stares back at me.”

This poem screams the essence of: environments shaping our stories as articulated in the books we have read this semester.