Review: This is an Honour Song – 20 Years After Oka

Hunter writes with the same fervour and intensity. To Hunter, hope is a noose placed around the necks of Aboriginal people. To hope is to wait, and Hunter calls his people to take action in his poem “Hope Can Be A Lie.” Twenty years after the blockade, after the event that had a nation and the world watching for almost two months, after the name “Oka” became forever etched in Canadian history, Hunter encourages peoples to speak up, free their voices:

Watch their world fall away

When you see that

You control

Your own

Destiny.

I control

My own

Destiny.

We control

Our own

Destiny.

We control

Our own

Destiny.

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