Anyone making their way down Southwood Drive in Steinbach in the last week and a half may have noticed a yard with a myriad of displays about indigenous issues.

Bambi Dawn says the displays on her front yard are part of her own personal journey of education.

"In recent years I have been really trying to connect with my own indigenous Cree heritage and so that has sent me on a lot of little mini journeys."

Dawn says some of her curiosity about her indigenous heritage began while on a missions trip to Nelson House with Steinbach Bible College. She notes over the last few years she has spent more and more time looking into her Cree ancestry in the Lac La Ronge area in Saskatchewan.

With the many recent discoveries of unmarked graves at residential schools, Dawn says she wanted to do something.

"Indigenous People's Day was coming up and then I knew Canada Day was coming up and I had really been hearing a lot of stuff in the indigenous community about cancelling Canada Day. I felt like if I did something every day and built upon what we learned yesterday and just kept adding those layers that by the time Cancel Canada Day came around people would kind of get a picture of 'oh, well, yeah I can kind of see why people would want to cancel Canada Day'."

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Dawn says she got the whole thing rolling on June 21st and slowly added on from there.

"I feel like there are so many layers to the whole indigenous topic. I thought if I did all of these displays on one day it would just be way too overwhelming and it would just be easy to blow past it like 'Woah, who's the weird lady?' I just started off with one sign with a pamphlet about Indigenous People's Day."

Every day since, Dawn says she has added one more sign, one more representative display, and one more pamphlet to her front yard. She notes each day is a new topic covering things like Orange Shirt Day, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's 94 calls to action, Land Back, and Mennonite's involvement in residential schools.

Dawn says her final display is going up on July 1st and will cover the Cancel Canada Day movement.

"The idea of Canada Day is we are celebrating this country and when we think about celebrating this country, we are thinking about celebrating colonization, the founders of this country, and confederation. I love this country and I want to celebrate Canada Day but when you realize that all of these great and wonderful things happened because there was this enormous genocide and that there are still people living today that have experienced those things, it is pretty tough."

Dawn says she has gotten a lot of really positive feedback from her neighbours and the community which has been very uplifting. She notes one teacher neighbour even used some of her resources in the classroom.

In addition to helping others, Dawn says the whole process of putting together these pamphlets and displays has been beneficial to her as well.

"This whole journey has really just taken me on a real learning experience because I don't want to just put out any kind of information. I want to make sure that not only is it accurate information but it is also communicating the right message for indigenous people. I kind of feel like I have one foot in the indigenous camp but I didn't grow up with that in my life and so my other foot is in the camp of being an ally."

On Canada Day, Dawn says she plans to have a fire in her front yard and invites people to wander by if they want to see the displays and talk about the information presented.