Bald eagles are a revered animal and the first part of Unreserved's Sacred Seven series.
Bald eagles are a revered animal and the first part of Unreserved's Sacred Seven series. Growing up in Toronto, Alan Colley didn't see a bald eagle until he travelled to British Columbia to reconnect with his Indigenous roots on a ceremonial canoe trip.
Colley grew up in the foster care system. He says he didn't feel a connection to his foster family and struggled to make many friends. But he found comfort within nature, seeking out urban ravines and green spaces throughout Toronto. A watershed is an area of land that catches rain and snow, and drains or seeps into a marsh, stream, river, lake or groundwater. At over 90,000 hectares, the Humber River watershed is the largest in the Toronto region.
Colley runs Living Wild in the City, which invites people of all ages on urban outdoor tours where he shares Indigenous knowledge about the local flora and fauna in Toronto, including around the Humber River."If I hadn't gone through the experience I did within the foster care system, of being within that colonial structure, I don't feel I'd be able to look at creation around me and see the beauty and the struggle, but also the opportunity to connect.
She says in her teachings, the eagle is the one that flies the highest and the closest to the Creator, so seeing an eagle is a great blessing, and being gifted an eagle feather is a high honour that means your life is on the right path. He is a traditional harvester and knowledge keeper who makes ceremonial items in order to share teachings that the eagle carries."Once we learn to love ourselves the way the eagle teaches us, then we can help others."
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