As uninvited guests on these lands, many of us hold a responsibility to support the council motion. Matthew Norris is a member of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band in Northern Saskatchewan and the president of the Urban Native Youth Association. SHARES Vancouver students celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day in 2019. Vancouver council will debate a motion this week to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Photo by Chad Hipolito, the Canadian Press. Our lives are defined by an ever-growing network of responsibilities, a set of relationships that bind us to our families, neighbours, friends and loved ones. Every day we are obliged within this network to care for one another and ensure each other’s well-being.