Learn about Waterways
The Forks, Winnipeg, Manitoba, June 30, 2026
If you haven’t already, I’d recommend that you take the time to visit the space at The Forks, accompanied by Niigaan Sinclair and his friends with the Self-Guided Audio Tour.
https://www.theforks.com/attractions/the-forks-a-self-guided-audio-tour
The Forks provides many tours throughout all four seasons, be sure to check them out: https://www.theforks.com/attractions/tours
During the morning, as the sun shinned on the last day of June. I entered the space and it wasn’t loud with chatter but from the movement of relations, the trees, birds and the city’s transportation such as the trains, cars and water.
As I made my way following Niigaan and his friends around The Forks, I was embraced with stories and that feeling of being present.
Learn about the waterways
When thinking about location, being in or on a space, having a place in the present.
I wish to discover more.
To learn and unlearn more.
To understand and feel what that space has endured.
When thinking about location, do you only consider the land and the elements upon it. Do you look towards what is moving?
I would think about the land, the trees, and animals and plants.
Now I think about movement, such as water.
Water, which flows, with hopes to be endless.
To move and not become stagnant. To change.
Water much like me carries things. Emotions, memories, history, culture, truth and lies.
Water changes with the seasons. Water is alive.
Water becomes something, not for a purpose but for creation.
Water should never be controlled much like earth and relations.
Water likes to be embraced, honoured, talked to, sang to, danced with, and respected.
Community and water belong together; it is not separate.
Water is a path and a journey; Indigenous peoples have traveled by the water before time immemorial.
You can discover many truths when being with water.
You can feel the pain she goes through; I do.
When you begin to feel the pain, you are awake, and alive.
Alive to connect and feel comfort that you can acknowledge the life that it endlessly gives.
Water will do what it believes to do. It cannot be changed nor stopped completely.
It can be hurt, used, poisoned and let down. It will remember. But it believes to flow.
-Amy Marques