Wesley Shennan, a member of the Michel First Nation, Treaty 6 (in the area currently known as Alberta, Canada), is a Community Planner and has been working with First Nations in British Columbia for the past 22 years. His background, work / life experience, and formal education in both the physical and social sciences, has allowed him to insert his personal involvement in these stories. But this isn't a memoir. It's more like seeing Indigenous reconciliation and environmental resilience through an autobiographical lens. Wesley lives with his wife Elena in the now smoky, and scorching hot, Okanagan Valley in British Columbia - the traditional unceded territory of the Syilx Nations.