![]() It has been over 3 months, and Kristian is still in jail because of alleged charges. More than ever, we realize how fortunate we are just to be alive and how important our message is to Never Give Up and Keep Moving Forward no matter what! Hopefully we will close this chapter soon and get on with our dream of touching peoples’ hearts with our music. My heart goes out to the inmates who don’t have the support of loved ones. Kristian says it is heartbreaking to see the reality of our criminal justice system on the inside. Those of you who have been through something like this, know how expensive it is to keep a loved one in commissary & phone calls. I’ve paid the lawyer $7000 so far and still owe him $2000 which is only pretrial costs. I’m sharing our GoFundMe again because we still need help. ![]() I’m not sure what we would have done without you. I know a lot of you who are reading this, have already donated and we really appreciate your generosity. We will be so grateful to have him home with us. What a wonderful feeling it will be, to reunite after such a strange ordeal. When he is vindicated, which we know will happen because we have the Truth on our side, he will happily return to Dallas were he belongs. He has a job waiting for him with Victory Outreach as a Musical Minister where he will be able to sublease a room and stay in Vegas so he can prepare his defense for a jury trial on September 13th. We remain hopeful that the Judge will finally let him out. The next court hearing is Thursday, April 29th. During the last court hearing which was on April 22nd, he was frustrated because he saw with his own eyes how Kristian is being mistreated & discriminated against. The attorney we hired, Chris Grasso is doing everything in his power to get him released. His spirit is stronger than ever, even after 5 months of being falsely incarcerated. It means a lot to feel the love when we need it the most!Īnd now for an update on my dear husband Kristian Craige. Our Family really appreciates all the heartfelt condolences we have received from so many of you. Please keep praying for Grandma Jody who is feeling the unnatural grief of a Mother losing a child, and for his wife Sabrina, who is beyond sad about her soulmate dying. We are still in shock & already miss him so much. ![]() Mama & I are back in Dallas after experiencing the sacred ceremony of celebrating the life of my brother R.D. Upon her appointment to the Order of Canada, Rita Joe was described as a “true ambassador for her people, promoting art and culture across Canada and in the United States.” More affectionately known by some as the “gentle warrior” or the “warrior poet”, Rita Joe is remembered for the way her poems expose truths about residential school and about growing up Indigenous in Canada, while also speaking about peace, reconciliation and healing.This has been a whirlwind of a week to say the least. – National Aboriginal Achievement Award (1997) (now called the Indspire Award) – Member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada (1992) In addition to a number of honorary doctorates, Rita Joe has received the following awards and honours: – The Mi’kmaq Anthology (1997) (co-edited with Lesley Choyce) – Song of Rita Joe: Autobiography of a Mi’kmaq Poet (1996) ![]() – Kelusultiek: Original Women’s Voices of Atlantic Canada (1994) Upon her death, the Globe and Mail named her the Poet Laureate of the Mi’kmaq people.“I was only a housewife with a dream to bring laughter to the sad eyes of my people.” – Rita Joe She kept writing until her death in 2007, five days after her 75th birthday. ![]() Rita’s husband, Frank, died in 1989 and a year later she was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Rita Joe began writing in the mid-1970s. She wrote seven books, including Poems of Rita Joe (1978), Song of Eskasoni (1988) and The Blind Man’s Eyes (published posthumously in 2015).In 1989, Rita Joe was inducted into the Order of Canada and in 1992, she became a member of the Queen’s Privy Council. She received an Aboriginal Achievement Award in 1997 and doctorates from several East Coast universities. She soon met Frank Joe and they married and started a family. Orphaned at the age of ten, she soon found herself at the Shubenacadie Residential School.įorbidden to speak her language, she endured mental and physical abuse and left at age 16. Rita Bernard was born in 1932 in Whycocomagh, Nova Scotia. Rita Joe was a famous Mi’kmaw poet who celebrated her language, culture and way of life. ![]()
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