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Elder Shirley Alphonse (2018), who is a spiritual leader for the T’Sou-ke Nation, wrote this closing prayer especially for the Four Feathers Writing Guide:
Creator Great Spirit, thank you for the dawn of each new day and the blessings of Mother Earth, providing beauty and bounty. Thank you for each person connected here at Royal Roads University – students, staff, faculty, Elders, visitors, as well as the Ancestors of this land.
Creator Great Spirit, help us each day to walk a good way of kindness, caring, compassion, empathy, and understanding toward one another. May we leave gentle, caring footprints upon Mother Earth who has supported us from time immemorial to this day and into the future for generations to come. Huy ch q'u! HÍŚKWE!14
14 The teachings and approaches to learning in this guide are shared with permission. The ownership of the Traditional Knowledge remains in perpetuity with the appropriate Nation; accordingly, the information should not be re-used without explicit permission.