My name is Sarah Frei, pronouns She/Her/Hers. I lived on Treaty 4 land on the boundary of Moose Jaw Saskatchewan. I live in one of the two residential properties that sit on this line, with almost no one else around it is very peaceful. Being so close to the edge of town our yard site is often a last stop for animals crossing from Moose Jaw toward North of Town. 

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I live next to a massive canola field that is the foreground to the most amazing sunsets. Our quiet home is shared with manny bunnies, the geese during their migration, deer and whomever else passes through our yard. We share it during the day with a local cabinet company and a construction crew, which brings many large trucks and machinery into the area. Although I am all too aware of the negative effects colonization has brought into this small area of land through industrialization, I am also aware of the fact that this land has not forgotten that it has always been shared land, not belonging to one person or animal. Even though it may on paper, my small family has always been free to roam wherever we please, and the animals who come to drink the outside water, sniff into the house or eat some cat food I believe think this too.

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I am always incredibly grateful for the place that I get to call home, as well as the privilege I have in being able to use my resources, and those before me too resources so that I could be here. I often stand on one of the big rocks in our yard, looking at Moose Jaw and think how this place would have been the one seen in the past. I like to imagine that someone else used the same rock as I did to admire a sun set. I also like to imagine that the bunnies in the bush love the peace of the evening just as much as I do.