Anishinaabe songwriter Leonard Sumner reflects on the unjust verdicts in the Colton Boushie and Tina Fontaine cases. His storytelling flows directly from the shores of Little Saskatchewan First Nation, in the heart of the Interlake of Manitoba. Sumner's self-determined sound demonstrates his ability to simultaneously occupy landscapes of multiple musical genres including Hip-Hop, Spoken Word, Country, and Rhythm and Blues. With every vibration of the strings on his guitar, Leonard rattles the dust off truths that have been buried for far too long. In this era of unsettling history and healing wounds of the past, Sumner's music is an expression of medicine that walks the line between fortitude and fragility.

In this episode, Leonard sets out to write a song that reflects on the unjust verdicts in the Colton Boushie and Tina Fontaine cases. Joined by Poet Tasha Spillet, and Attorney Amanda Sansregret, Leonard digs into the systemic racism in the ‘justice’ system in Canada. The episode asks us to reframe our understanding of justice. The meaning of the word justice in Ojibwe, Leonard explains, "Doesn’t mean one side is punished and one side isn’t punished. It means that we acknowledge that something has been done that is wrong and we need to make it right. That's what the justice system should be about.”