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I'm fascinated with the way language
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is central to our world view
as indigenous people.
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I'm a Naheo artist and curator living on
Lekwungen territory in Victoria, BC.
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My personal research centers
around language revitalization
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and how it connects us
to our cultures and lands.
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Over the past few years I've been
on a journey to learn
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the Cree language.
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It's been a challenging and
incredibly rewarding experience.
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Now I want to travel to Alberta,
where my ancestors are from
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to discover the ways that
different communities
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are revitalizing their languages.
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My mother and I both grew up
not knowing anything
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about our Cree family because
she was adopted out at birth
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as part of the '60s scoop.
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Twelve years ago,
we met our Cree family,
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and since then I have been
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in a process of connecting
with the community
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in Wabasca, Alberta,
the place where my kokum,
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my grandmother Florence,
was born.
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I recently met Nora Yellowmee,
an administrator
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at the local school,
Oski Pskiknowew Kamik.
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After realizing that we
were second cousins
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she offered to help
me learn about my family tree.
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(Nora) You have your grandmother,
Florence.
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and her mother is Isabelle, and then,
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I'm here. And your
grandmother. And your mom.
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(Narrator) Um, Fancine.
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(Nora) Your first cousins or
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second cousins.
(Narrator) Ok.
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(Nora) And you're down here.
(Narrator) I'm down there.
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Yeah, this is more than,
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a lot more than I knew before
I met you, before I came up.
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(Nora) Yea, that's Isabelle.
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Nohkom Isabelle.
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(Narrator) This means a lot to me
to see this.
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Again, um, because
the more that I see it the more that I
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hear about this, and
talk about it
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it's going to stick and
I know
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I'll understand more and
know more through that process
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(Nora) My dream for the language here,
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starting with the school, is to have
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our people who speak
the language, speak it
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everyday, because we are not getting that.
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There are many Cree speakers working here,
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but they are not speaking it.
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For people, the young families now
the young mothers
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speak Cree to their children
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and all the rest of it all follow.
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Seeing a photo of my kukom Florence
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as a young woman created a sense of
healing and re-connection
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after feeling disconnected
for most of my life
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Knowing more about my family's history
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has allowed me to connect
deeper with my ancestors
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There is so much more to discover
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but, like learning the language,
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this will take time.
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The Kapaskwatinak
Cultural Education Center
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is a place for the Children of Wabaska
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to connect to the land and their culture.
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Knowledge Keeper Lorraine Cardinal
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helps guide the children
through land based education
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including coming of age ceremonies.
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I'm excited to learn about these teachings
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since I didn't have the opportunities
to experience them
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Growing up disconnected
from community and family.
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The reason that I do these things,
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like the coming of age because
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it's also my responsibility
as a Naheo School
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to protect the children,
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creator's children.
And when I'm protecting creator's children
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we need to teach them those protocols.
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We need to teach those values.
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They need to know them so that they don't
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end up getting hurt in the future.
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And that shame of our language
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and who we are, and our ceremonial ways.
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Losing those has caused big destruction
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in our communities
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Because our children,
as they're growing up,
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they know who they are,
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they came with the gift
of knowing who they are.
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I have a responsibility to
pass those teachings
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on to other children too,
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because they will experiment,
they will explore
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and we want to prevent them
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from hurting each other or
hurting themselves, right?
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(Singing and drums)
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(Lorraine) They call that
oskeskwew (?) oskinîkiskwew (?)
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young manhood and young womanhood.
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I want to thank you and honor you for
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coming into this world.
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You are a blessing to us.
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We are so very honored to have you
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as part of us, Naheo school.
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Always remember to hold your head up,
don't be ashamed
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and always accept yourself for who you are
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and honor those gifts you brought with you
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And welcome into womanhood
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Welcome.
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It truly is a blessing
and an honor to have you
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as a young Naheo iskwew (?),
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A young Naheo woman. Welcome.
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(children talking)
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(Lorraine) Somehow, someway
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fear got instilled in us
as indigenous people.
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Shame got instilled in us
as indigenous people.
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Our children, what they
experienced here today
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taught them how sacred they are,
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how important they are,
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how beautiful they are and that
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they're not just
beautiful in physical form.
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that they're beautiful
in spiritual form too.
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All we need to do is believe in them,
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to love them, and to tell them that
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they're important
and they'll start feeling
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good about themselves.
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I'm proud of them.
Their spirit is still alive and well.
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(Narrator) What do you see being
the way forward
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so that these young ones in the
community
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can not only understand the language
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and its relationship to their spirit
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and their relationship, to the land
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and each other and themselves,
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but be speaking it?
How do you feel about
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the future of the language in these
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next generations to come?
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We have to believe in ourselves
to be able to do it
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and we need to set our goal
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and if it's revitalizing the language,
then let's do that.
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How did we learn Cree?
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We learnt it sitting around
with the old people,
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visiting each other and
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our parents speaking to us, you know?
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So we can get it back.
We just need to do it.
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John Bigstone is a Wabiskaw elder
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who carries vast spiritual and
ceremonial knowledge
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He invited me to the land where
he holds sweat lodge ceremonies
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to share teachings about the spirit
within our languages.
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[Music]
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[inhales deeply]
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It clears your mind when
you breathe in this smudge
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English language is inadequate
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if you're going to describe spirit.
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Anything of spirit.
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Its inadequate.
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They named it according to their
connection to that plant.
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because they spoke to the plant
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They had a connection.
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They had a connection to all of life.
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They understood their environment.
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They understood that everything was alive,
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and your spirtit has a connection
with that spirit
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of mother earth, and everything
that grows on her body.
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Prior to contact, everything was
described in a more spiritual way.
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Mitos (?) you know,
has a spiritual meaning.
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Sifta (?) as in spiritual meaning
that's the poplar and the spruce.
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(...?) coming back to the language where
our families have had these interruptions
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of residential school, the 60s' scoop
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I'm curious what your thoughts are about
those of us with this blood in us
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and whose ancestors have
spoken the language
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and whether you think that
we have it inside of us
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just waiting to come out,
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this bone memory or blood memory
of the language.
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Yeah, it's in yur DNA.
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It's programmed in there already.
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You just have to wake up that programming.
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That's why you're here.
See?
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It's that programming,
and your spirit guide -
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you've got to remember there's
a spiritual aspect to this
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You're never alone.
You never walk alone,
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your ancestors, your Cree
ancestors, walk with you,
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they're assigned to you to guide you
where you need to be
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That's the beauty if this
understanding of spirit
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It happens in spirit
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We are the result of spirit in action.
We become material.
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That's a deeper teaching.
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But the reality is (that) everyone of us
have spirit guides around us.
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I was on kind of a lost path
before I found my way to my first lodge.
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And it's interesting to think of these
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European modalities or academic
ways of describing
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how things are working.
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And the way that I explain it to people is
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I don't know how it's working,
I just know it is working for me.
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And it's not something I'm trying
to figure out up here ,
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I just know it's working
down here.
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And I think it has connected
my heart and my spirit
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in ways that weren't happening before.
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When I say a prayer
in the social gathering,
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I say it in Cree
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because it's an insult to my ancestors
if I pray in English.
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It's the very thing
that oppressed me as a child.
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I can't do that.
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I have to speak and pray in Cree.
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That's what I do and
I explain, you know, why.
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Because I'm not praying to the people.
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I'm praying to the spirits
that are guiding me.
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They don't have to understand
what I'm saying.
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Because as long as a spirit hears,
the Spirit will come.
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And they understand my language,
the Cree language.
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Once I identify myself, they say,
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"Huh, our grandson is playing.
Let's go support him."
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That's the beauty of our language.
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What happened to our language --
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came from the time of
the residence in school,
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the first time it was introduced, --
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not only the Cree
but the many tribes themselves.
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When they took away the children, --
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they took the children away
from the land, --
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the language, their ancestors,
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their grandfathers, their grandmothers,
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their teachers, their parents,
their aunts and uncles.
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That's when the separation happened.
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They broke that connection.
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So when he took us away, --
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they severed that connection
to all of those things.
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We were taught a foreign way of thinking.
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I was programmed as a child.
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Now, I have to deprogram myself,
sometimes referred to as decolonization,
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as they gave us that colonized mentality.
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And it just did not fit with our paradigm,
how we saw our place in creation.
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At some point, somebody's got to wake up.
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One day, you've got to say,
"Hey, there's something wrong here."
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This is the time.
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That's why we're here.
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To wake the people up.
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To wake ourselves up.
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Still be the guiding light, you know.
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There is a different way.
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So, it's about connection.
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That's what was severed --
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in the time of the residential school.
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We lost connection to our spirit.
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It replaced the creator
outside of us instead of in here.
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We're trying to mend that rift.
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That's what you're doing.
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That rift that was caught;
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you are the stitch that is bringing
those two worldviews --
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but to where they start
respecting our way,
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the Cree way.
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When you have love, when you feel love --
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and somebody tells you something
that your spirit is looking to hear
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like, "Welcome home."
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Where do you feel it?
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Right here. You're connecting.
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You'll always have
that sense of belonging --
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because you come home. Yeah.
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So once you come home,
you know where to come
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next time you're out there, wandering, --
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you have a connection there.
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You've made some connections already here.
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You're no longer disconnected.
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I left my conversation with John
feeling like I belong
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in a way that I've never felt before.
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It was an incredibly
powerful experience
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that made me feel more
connected to my spirit.
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Tell me again, like,
your family story with Wabasca.
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My mother grew up there,
my father grew up in Grouard, --
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a couple hours away,
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and she didn't want
to raise me on the reserve.
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So as soon as they found out
about me, they moved away.
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And when we move to Edmonton,
through the teen years,
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through my adult years, that's when
the reconnection really started to happen,
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going home more happen.
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Before that, I would only visit,
like, holidays, few times a year.
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Dusty Legrand is the creator of
the clothing label Mobilize Waskawēwin.
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Using the ancient writing system
of Cree syllabics and his designs,
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he's making the language
visible to a new generation.
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Yeah, so this was the --
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- it has the --
- Oh yeah,
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the different languages,
tribes of the north.
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Yeah, it tells the story of --
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a bunch of people.
And it was really special to hear, like,
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the feedback from different people
that had never seen
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their nation represented on a ....
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There were certain people that;
this was like their first time.
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They're like, "I'm just buying this just because
I've never seen my nation represented."
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Yeah, then I put revolution down the arm
just to let them know what's going on.
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[Laughs]
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I've been always wanting
to create a clothing brand.
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So to be able to create something that
can empower indigenous youth
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and educate them
on the indigenous history,
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on the future, on values
and what it means to be indigenous.
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So Mobilize was a way that
I could give voice to the voiceless.
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I could give a voice to the youth.
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To do it in a different way
than I had seen being done, --
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it was very important to me.
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To do it completely different,
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to represent the funky people,
to represent the different people,
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to represent everybody
that's ostracized that way
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and especially as indigenous people,
like, that's been done to us.
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Okay.
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So this is the first drawing of this shirt.
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So, a lot of, like, the pieces will come,
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and they'll come at certain times,
when I'm driving,
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when I'm listening to certain things.
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And they'll come and if I don't write it
the way it's supposed to be,
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the idea won't stay.
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I want to try to encompass all of Canada
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and I'm gonna try to reach
as many as I can.
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So for me this was like a lot of studying,
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a lot of research to try to see
as far east as I could go
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and see what nations are there.
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And that's what is special
about the language I find.
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It's that the stories, and the purpose,
and everything exists within the language.
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That's in kind of a place
that it's been locked.
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And it remains, and even though --
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the assimilation
has taken a lot of, like, --
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our connection to community,
our ceremonies, our practices.
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The language has kept all of that.
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How did you get the Cree word?
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Yes, well, the Cree word is
on the back of this one here.
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Okay.
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So I just keep it as like Mobilize
is the English version
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and then Waskawēwin,
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which is the Cree word for movement,
is the Cree element that comes in.
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Mobilize didn't have a translation.
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But I also didn't want to
just translate mobilize,
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I wanted to use movement
as the word.
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So one thing that I really liked
about the word waskawēwin
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was the presence of
the triangular symbols,
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and for me these represented,
like, two tipis
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and kind of represented
the tribe that way.
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Being a part of Reuben's class
was really special to understand
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the fundamentals of and to learn
the history of the star chart
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and to learn the history of syllabics.
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Yeah, it was like learning
indigenous history
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through the spirit mechanism.
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That was really special.
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He kind of just takes you back
and he tells you the stories.
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And he takes you
through a journey through story
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of the significance of the numbers
of the grandfather directions,
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the grandmother directions.
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Yeah, înîw.
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And what does that mean, înîw?
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It's a collapsed word.
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... actually is the way it's said.
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From what I understand; --
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talk a little bit about colonization --
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and taking over lands,
the lands of original people; --
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what I understand,
first thing you got to do is
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you got to get rid of
those people's deity, the name,
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and replace it with yours
when you're colonizing people.
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So our dename for Néhiyaw people was aî, --
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and we have a different paradigm
as far as a dogma is concerned.
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You are aîs, I am aîs,
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so a diminutive of aî.
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So aîsînîw.
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But this is a collapsed version
of that ??? înîw.
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o3d ???
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Fantastic.
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So we have a relationship with the earth,
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and that relationship is that
we relate to her as mother.
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So she when she brings forth
those different people --
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the plant people, the different ones,
00:23:01.906 --> 00:23:06.203
that's ??? coming
out of the trees, out of the grass.
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And so she's showing us what love is.
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It's practical.
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So she'll give us all of this.
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We will be nurtured by it.
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The dandelion somewhere
and different grasses.
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The four-legged people will eat from that.
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We will, in turn, get our sustenance
from the four-legged people,
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but she's giving us all of that,
showing us that love.
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Now, ??? is the morpheme of that word.
00:23:42.496 --> 00:23:48.050
And if I were to say to you,
"I love you," I would say ???.
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Some people say ???,
00:23:52.499 --> 00:23:55.517
and I say ???.
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That's how I've been taught: ???.
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I love you or you are loved by me.
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So that's a good word to learn
to say to your loved ones.
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That's one of the only words
that I know to say to my partner.
00:24:13.763 --> 00:24:14.763
[Laughs]
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Yes, and see how that
it's coming into bloom.
00:24:20.156 --> 00:24:22.046
It's gonna start blossoming.
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It'll continue to grow and then
it'll go through its cycle, --
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just like we will come into
a relationship with others.
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This really sticks out to me,
when I came here last summer, --
00:24:44.616 --> 00:24:45.632
as a special place.
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Not only Amy's piece, but the other artwork
and it's kind of perched over the river.
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When did you begin learning about
syllabics and the spirit marker system?
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When we were liberated
from residential school,
00:25:13.189 --> 00:25:16.986
probably 1970 or 1971,
I don't remember.
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I was just young.
00:25:18.677 --> 00:25:23.455
and the late Rosana Hole and
late Caroline Hunter would come in
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and teach us about them, me and my peers.
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So that's when I started learning
the system that I know about.
00:25:33.389 --> 00:25:38.543
And it was made so simply
for me to learn it --
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that I passed it on
the way that was taught to me,
00:25:42.395 --> 00:25:49.757
and I guarantee that people
will master that writing system.
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I always tell the ones
that are coming in to learn,
00:26:01.979 --> 00:26:04.124
"Take your page and go to the center."
00:26:04.124 --> 00:26:06.188
I tell them, "That's where
we're gonna start off."
00:26:06.188 --> 00:26:09.841
because we're used to writing
from the top to the right,
00:26:09.841 --> 00:26:11.692
left to right, left to right.
00:26:12.434 --> 00:26:13.646
But in this one, --
00:26:14.784 --> 00:26:18.505
you go from the center
and you start from inside.
00:26:18.571 --> 00:26:20.142
So there's the center there.
00:26:20.142 --> 00:26:23.343
I'll go left of center
and write the first one, --
00:26:24.282 --> 00:26:25.920
and that's this one here.
00:26:27.576 --> 00:26:29.611
This one is a phonetic language.
00:26:29.834 --> 00:26:32.066
So that one says ah.
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And it's also the sound.
00:26:36.782 --> 00:26:39.922
The first sound that people will make --
00:26:42.842 --> 00:26:45.869
when they're praying and worshiping.
00:26:46.285 --> 00:26:50.179
They'll say something like, "ah ???."
00:26:50.474 --> 00:26:54.469
They'll describe that supreme being --
00:26:54.922 --> 00:27:00.133
and the supreme being's name,
this part of this as well. ā.
00:27:00.810 --> 00:27:05.027
Ā someone then will say, "???", --
00:27:05.771 --> 00:27:07.057
describing again.
00:27:08.976 --> 00:27:12.236
They'll endear themselves
to that supreme being
00:27:12.236 --> 00:27:15.453
by calling that supreme being father of all.
00:27:15.453 --> 00:27:18.359
Ā ???.
00:27:18.590 --> 00:27:24.581
So I say, "???" in recognition.
There's you, me and the supreme being.
00:27:24.686 --> 00:27:26.121
???.
00:27:26.121 --> 00:27:28.303
A lot of people say, "???"
00:27:28.303 --> 00:27:31.486
That's what I've learned.
That's probably how you've heard it quite a bit.
00:27:31.486 --> 00:27:35.413
So that one near says, "???",
this one says "???"
00:27:35.413 --> 00:27:37.462
There's that ???.
00:27:38.668 --> 00:27:41.702
So who's ah ba la
00:27:43.117 --> 00:27:46.649
And there's four of them, like I said,
going off into the east:
00:27:46.649 --> 00:27:50.219
Miki nice ET wreath
00:27:50.219 --> 00:27:54.041
And there's seven of them, like I said.
There's seven tectonic plates --
00:27:54.862 --> 00:27:58.667
going off into the south,
is the same vowel sound.
00:27:58.802 --> 00:28:03.696
And then into the southwest,
there's what I like to call the anomaly.
00:28:04.290 --> 00:28:05.876
It's a a vowel sound.
00:28:05.876 --> 00:28:16.374
???
00:28:16.764 --> 00:28:18.626
A vowel sound ooh.
00:28:18.626 --> 00:28:23.018
And thank you Dr. James Makokis
for correcting me on that.
00:28:23.018 --> 00:28:27.480
I used to go o, borrowing from English.
00:28:28.551 --> 00:28:31.052
He said that, "Oh isn't it ooh?"
00:28:31.052 --> 00:28:35.254
and I said, "Hey yeah, that's right."
???.
00:28:36.979 --> 00:28:39.026
And then they're smaller --
00:28:41.586 --> 00:28:45.512
and these are way smaller
than the big ones, big spirit markers,
00:28:45.512 --> 00:28:47.618
small spirit markers here.
00:28:49.089 --> 00:28:50.340
To complete --
00:28:53.518 --> 00:28:59.586
what Dr. Marilyn Shirt
has called the star chart.
00:29:03.749 --> 00:29:06.570
So the one I told you --
00:29:20.568 --> 00:29:23.517
??? --
00:29:24.478 --> 00:29:29.686
that's, "You are loved by me or I love you."
00:29:30.618 --> 00:29:31.618
???
00:29:32.272 --> 00:29:35.229
Yeah, ???
00:29:38.059 --> 00:29:40.207
So that's the writing system there.
00:29:40.963 --> 00:29:45.250
My hope is that it will help
to instill pride in those --
00:29:45.705 --> 00:29:49.580
for those young people --
00:29:49.866 --> 00:29:52.550
because this is a racist country --
00:29:53.686 --> 00:29:56.431
and it was born out of racism.
00:29:57.067 --> 00:30:00.705
And of course racism disconnects people.
00:30:01.329 --> 00:30:02.902
This one connects us.
00:30:04.432 --> 00:30:07.282
And all have access to it, --
00:30:08.660 --> 00:30:11.890
whatever ethnicity you are from.
00:30:13.271 --> 00:30:15.256
It all makes sense to everybody.
00:30:15.256 --> 00:30:19.508
It can make sense to everyone
and we can start connecting.
00:30:22.176 --> 00:30:25.223
What they taught us
in the residential schools
00:30:25.223 --> 00:30:32.255
is that we were worth less than Europeans.
00:30:33.271 --> 00:30:37.652
And this one teaches us that ??? --
00:30:40.895 --> 00:30:45.209
will have the same measurements
as far as humanity.
00:30:45.209 --> 00:30:48.591
Our DNA says that we're all the same.
00:30:53.898 --> 00:30:58.265
I want to thank you so much
for sharing about this because --
00:30:59.054 --> 00:31:09.435
I can see the the brilliance and sophistication lifts within this the way you've you know shown and explained
00:31:09.813 --> 00:31:16.587
and it piques my interest and makes me want to learn more it makes me want to move out here so I could take one of your classes.
00:31:16.820 --> 00:31:18.090
yeah
00:31:20.433 --> 00:31:22.078
thank you so much for sharing this.
00:31:23.019 --> 00:31:24.404
honor and a privilege.