In the eleventh month of the pandemic, my 26-year-old marriage collapsed.
I had been souring on Toronto for some time, having left home at the age of 17 to go to York University and never returning other than to visit.
I was tired of living in the big city with the traffic and the noise and the sky-high prices. My marriage falling apart hastened the resolve that was growing in me – I just wanted to go home.
Home is the historical and storied Haudenosaunee community of Six Nations of the Grand River, 100 km down the highway from Toronto, where my duties and
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