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Grise Fiord

by ROUGH SPELLS

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As settlers, immigrants, Jews, and queers, we recognize that Canadians need to engage in meaningful acts of reconciliation and decolonization. We need to make amends for past and current wrongs in all areas of the country. We support the calls to justice outlined in the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and 2SLGBTQQIA people. We support the Qiqiktani Inuit Association for a formal acknowledgement and an apology for the modern-day colonial practices of forced relocation, separation of families, and the killing of sled dogs in the Arctic between 1950 and 1975. www.qtcommission.ca

All proceeds from the song with be donated to It Starts With Us, a community organization that honours the memory of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Two-Spirit, and Trans people. itstartswithus-mmiw.com

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By moonlight by midnight
In the starlight
Distant early warning line
Senseless colonizing crime

Days of night nights of days
In a place that never thaws
No trees, godforsaken
Human beacons in a cold cold war

I call from need not greed
I call from need not greed
I wait for what will be
Do no harm to me

Alert, Eureka
The only neighbours to the North
No return, no reprieve
Barren tundra with scarce resource

Names taken
One thousand sled dogs slain
Given numbers for ID
Human beacons in a cold cold war

I call from need not greed
I call from need not greed
I wait for what will be
Do no harm to me
Grise Fiord; your icy fields of blood
Grise Fiord; your money’s not enough
Grise Fiord; your promises were lies
Grise Fiord; a dark sunrise

By moonlight by midnight
Human beacons in a cold cold war

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released July 1, 2019
Written and performed by Rough Spells

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ROUGH SPELLS Toronto, Ontario

Imagine yourself as a wolf. Hold your crystal close to your heart. Then close your eyes and chant: Goddess of the moon, God of the night, oh so powerful, bring the wolf to life.

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