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[♪♪♪]

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-Good morning.
-Good morning!

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[Alfonso] Hello. Oh, hi!

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[woman] How are you?
Let me give you a hug.

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Just hang on.

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-Hello?
-Hello!

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[Alfonso] Good morning.

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[♪♪♪]

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[indistinct conversation
carrying]

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...You know, like...

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So it would be nice
if it would be a little bit...

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[man] Try once again.

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Good morning.

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Imagine for a moment...

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that you are carrying
an armload of bricks.

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You know that they represent
innovation and evolution.

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You also know

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they are broken

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to the point

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that they will never
fit together again.

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Yet here we are...

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carrying these bricks.

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They're extremely heavy.

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Clinging to them

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with a desperation
and uncertainty

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because it's all
we've known to do.

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Imagine for a moment

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that you let the bricks
fall to the ground.

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To walk away from the bricks
is to decolonize.

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To turn to
and to follow the rhythms,

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the flow...

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to listen and to feel

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is to Indigenize.

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The shattering of systems

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creates space

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for the natural ways
of knowing to rise.

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[singing a traditional song]

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We sit together in a sacred way.

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[singing a traditional song]

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You are welcomed with open arms.

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[singing a traditional song]

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[Alfonso] Okay.

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We'll start off
our interview together

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with a song.

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[Calvin] Sure.

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[Alfonso]
One of our favourite songs

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that we like to sing together...

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[Calvin] Mm-hmm.

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[Alfonso] "Chief Dan George".

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[♪♪♪]

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[singing "Chief Dan George's
Prayer Song"]

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[♪♪♪]

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[♪♪♪]

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[♪♪♪]

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[♪♪♪]

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[♪♪♪]

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[Alfonso] What can you tell me
about gifting me my drum,

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and why did you do it?

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[Calvin]
Because all of our drums

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and our regalia

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were abolished
by the Indian Affairs,

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the Indian Agents.

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Those things were lost to us
for many, many years.

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So, my wife and I,

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we had six drums made,

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because we wanted to make sure

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that our children
and our grandchildren

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were going to learn
how to carry the drum,

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and it was going to revive

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the very spirit
that was taken away from us.

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[chuckles]

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Yeah, it can get
your spirit going.

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-Yeah.
-Your dancing feet going.

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Can you put that over there?

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So my name is--

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traditional name ishiwus,

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given to me by my Grandfather...

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the very instant I was born...

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almost 78 winters ago now.

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And...

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he proclaimed me
Hereditary Chief at that time,

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and only because he knew

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the lineage
that I was about to carry.

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And I've carried that name,

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hopefully honourably,

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for almost 78 winters now.

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So, I remainhiwus.

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I remain Hereditary Chief.

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And I want to say
welcome to you all.

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I'm sure you know,

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but by giving me
that responsibility,

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by gifting me something
that has impacted my life,

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it really has changed my life

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and has guided me
to where I am today.

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That's how I want
to present that energy.

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I want everyone to feel that,

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feel the medicine.

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I just-- I just...

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There's no words to express
my feeling about that,

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how proud I am,

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and happy that I am to see that.

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[Alfonso] Welcome to my Rez.

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Have you ever been
down this way, Liz?

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[Liz] Never.

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[Alfonso] Today is, like,

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your chance
to get to know her...

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...and I'll be talking to her

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about what she wants me to do
with the paddles.

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[Liz] Okay, thank you.

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We saw your beautiful canoe.

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-[Barbara] Yeah.
-[Alfonso] Yup.

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[Alfonso] Have you done videos,
documentaries before, Barb?

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[Alfonso] Yeah?

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[Alfonso]
Looks like that one, too.

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-Thank you.
-Thank you for that.

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Thank you.

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-?úl nú msh chxw.
-?úl nú msh chxw.

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[Alfonso]
It'd be good to get to know

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how you feel about,

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you know, capturing
this part of the story,

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which is your part,

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as part of my inspiration.

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[laughing]

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[Alfonso] Yup!

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Here it comes!

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[Alfonso] Okay.

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I'm glad to hear that.

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[Alfonso] Because it is
very important to me.

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Just learning
everything about you--

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I know there is
so much to learn still--

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but just the little bit
I've learned already

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is a very big inspiration to me.

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Reading your book

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and hearing about
your childhood,

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you were even

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a very tough cookie
back then, too.

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-Wow.
-Mm-hmm.

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[Alfonso] Watch out, boy.
Watch out. Come on.

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The reason whyx wu' p' a' lich
became dear to my heart is,

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for me, I felt canoeing
back up our inlet

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would be a great part
of our healing.

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And I was wondering,

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"Where are
all of our canoes at?"

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And I remember
driving by her house,

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and she's always had a canoe
in front of her house.

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So, I basically just went
to visit her one day

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and asked her about it,

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and I told her my dream.

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I recently became

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the Traditional Wellness
Coordinator for my Nation,

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the shíshálh Nation.

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And my team and I
want to create a canoe family

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to reconnect us to the land
and to our Ancestors.

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So, with my job,

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I'm able to create that program
with the Nation,

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and create it

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withx wu' p' a' lich's
teachings.

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And one of the biggest teachings
is awakening the canoe,

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the canoes have spirit.

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The canoes are our caregivers.

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They take care of us,

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and we have to take care
of the canoes.

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The canoes and the paddles:
People.

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[♪♪♪]

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[♪♪♪]

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I know.

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It's so itchy!

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We're going to itch that.

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[Charlene] I've known
since I was four years old

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that I'm adopted.

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I've taken a lot of years

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to kind of put
the pieces together

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of where I am from...

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Oh, you're so pretty.

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How did you get
to be so pretty, hmm?

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...And now
all the emotional work

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that goes along with that.

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How did you get to be so pretty?

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[Charlene]
I live on the Sunshine Coast,

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and...

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I'm on a journey
of coming home to my whole self

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and...

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and helping others
in that journey as well.

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[Chief Wayne Christian]
It's about connection, eh? Hmm?

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You're connected to this land,

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you've been living here
for so long.

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So, it's that energy of the land
that's coming to help you.

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[Charlene] My team and I

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are working
with Chief Wayne Christian

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on a short film called
Coming Home for the Children.

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[Chief Wayne Christian]
It's the areas like this

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they used for fasting.

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We have some of these at home,

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where there'd be a cave
under the waterfall,

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and People would fast,

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ask for help and give gifts.

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[Charlene] Mm-hmm.

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[Chief Wayne Christian]
Yeah, it's pretty interesting.

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Hmm.

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[Charlene] On my team

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is my step-daughter, Willow,

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and Madeline,
a non-Indigenous ally.

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[Chief Wayne Christian] Oh...

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[Chief Wayne Christian
speaking in Secwepemctsín]

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[Chief Wayne Christian]
I introduce myself to you

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and the Ancestors
of this territory and this land.

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I ask you to continue

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to protect
and look out for Charlene,

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the crew,

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and all of the family,

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as we begin to help

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and go on
this journey of healing.

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We ask the blessing

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of the sacred life blood
of all living things:

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the water,

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all that we're connected to,

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the trees--

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they give us breath.

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Also, we ask that you continue
to look after us,

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clear that path for us
to the front,

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to the right, to the left,
behind, above and below,

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but most importantly,
from within.

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That you remove

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any physical, mental, emotional,

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or spiritual obstacles
in our way

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and in the way of our equipment.

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[announcer] I am very honoured

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to introduce

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the special guest speakers
for this evening--

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Charlene SanJenko
and her reGEN Impact Media team.

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Let's give Charlene and her team
some love!

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[cheering and applause]

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We're honoured

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to have Chief Wayne Christian
join us this evening.

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He's a former tribal Chief

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who led his community
for seven terms.

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[cheering]

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He's a '60s Scoop survivor.

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Let's welcome
Chief Wayne and Charlene!

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[cheering and applause]

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I was gifted a paddle

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that was crafted and carved
by an Indigenous artist.

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And when I received the gift,

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I had a visceral experience.

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And I say now

00:19:07.247 --> 00:19:12.319
that my Ancestors
were reaching out to me.

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It woke up something in me

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that I think I always knew,

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but I didn't know
what to do with.

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And so, Charlene and I

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have been on this journey
of reconnecting,

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but also talking about
our stories

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because we're part
of that '60s Scoop.

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She was a lot younger
when she went in,

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and I was a little older.

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And so, we're trying
to find a way

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to reach out

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to literally the thousands
of our People

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that have been
through that process

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that are struggling.

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And the children

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have called us forward
to do this work.

00:19:55.295 --> 00:19:58.431
[singing a traditional song]

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[singing a traditional song]

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[Ecko]
There is a teaching we carry,

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that we don't choose
the path we want,

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but over time,

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the gifts in the form
of what we refer to as medicine

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will reveal itself to us.

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I find myself walking
the baby stages of learning

00:21:03.797 --> 00:21:08.602
to become a medicine woman
of many mediums.

00:21:13.541 --> 00:21:16.777
[singing a traditional song]

00:21:19.680 --> 00:21:23.851
[singing a traditional song]

00:21:42.369 --> 00:21:46.674
[singing a traditional song]

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As a digital-media
shapeshifter...

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...I've been documenting
the story of my father

00:22:02.756 --> 00:22:04.825
for several years now...

00:22:10.463 --> 00:22:15.444
...to preserve
and lift his legacy

00:22:15.468 --> 00:22:16.780
for his healing,

00:22:16.804 --> 00:22:19.616
and the intergenerational
healing of myself

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and my children.

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[Terry Coyote Aleck
speaking in Nlaka'pamux]

00:22:43.096 --> 00:22:47.701
My name is Terry Aleck
from Lytton First Nation.

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[Ecko] Good job.

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[man] Go right in.

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[Ecko] Okay.

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[Terry Aleck]
"Sen7kiyap" is "Coyote".

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"Smuwa" is "Cougar".

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"sukx'ssukwx" is Grizzly Clan--

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our family is a Grizzly Clan.

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[Ecko] Can you share

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the first memory you have
of connecting with the land?

00:23:25.673 --> 00:23:28.576
[Terry] Come here!

00:23:29.643 --> 00:23:35.391
Fourteen Mile
with my Dad's family.

00:23:35.415 --> 00:23:36.984
[Ecko] I like this one.

00:23:37.818 --> 00:23:40.964
[Terry] Great Grandpa,
Captain Smarty Aleck.

00:23:40.988 --> 00:23:42.165
[Ecko] That's this person.

00:23:42.189 --> 00:23:44.801
Probably one of his last...

00:23:44.825 --> 00:23:46.670
last hunting trips

00:23:46.694 --> 00:23:48.605
up behind Fourteen Mile,

00:23:48.629 --> 00:23:49.706
where I grew up as a kid.

00:23:49.730 --> 00:23:55.969
And this one of him
dressed up in regalia.

00:23:58.606 --> 00:24:00.183
[Ecko] And these are
all your siblings.

00:24:00.207 --> 00:24:01.551
My siblings.

00:24:01.575 --> 00:24:03.887
There's me in the pink shirt.

00:24:03.911 --> 00:24:07.090
[Ecko] You look so young!

00:24:07.114 --> 00:24:08.916
[Terry] Yeah.

00:24:09.650 --> 00:24:13.963
And there's the house
I grew up in,

00:24:13.987 --> 00:24:14.664
and the haystack

00:24:14.688 --> 00:24:18.626
was just beyond reach
of the house there.

00:24:20.027 --> 00:24:21.705
A fun place to play.

00:24:21.729 --> 00:24:22.939
[Ecko] Yeah.

00:24:22.963 --> 00:24:23.973
Three Musketeers.

00:24:23.997 --> 00:24:26.042
[Terry] Mm-hmm.
Three Musketeers.

00:24:26.066 --> 00:24:31.114
Fourteen Mile was a really
safe haven to be a kid.

00:24:31.138 --> 00:24:31.715
Yeah.

00:24:31.739 --> 00:24:34.017
-And my other Grandparents?
-Mm-hmm?

00:24:34.041 --> 00:24:38.988
Ten miles south of Lytton.
Kanaka Bar Reserve.

00:24:39.012 --> 00:24:41.891
As kids, we had--

00:24:41.915 --> 00:24:42.692
oh, my god--

00:24:42.716 --> 00:24:46.119
a mountainside to run and play.

00:24:46.854 --> 00:24:48.865
-Mother dearest.
-Yeah, yeah.

00:24:48.889 --> 00:24:49.465
Mm-hmm.

00:24:49.489 --> 00:24:53.036
Brave little warrior,
that woman.

00:24:53.060 --> 00:24:56.172
She was tough,
even though she was tiny.

00:24:56.196 --> 00:24:59.208
And that's her
when I was a baby.

00:24:59.232 --> 00:25:00.977
[Ecko] Yup.

00:25:01.001 --> 00:25:02.646
[Terry] Ah, so happy.

00:25:02.670 --> 00:25:04.213
-Look at her!
-Yup.

00:25:04.237 --> 00:25:05.782
[Ecko] And look at--
look at...

00:25:05.806 --> 00:25:06.583
This is awesome.

00:25:06.607 --> 00:25:09.085
So, you have
the look on her face

00:25:09.109 --> 00:25:10.687
with you as a baby,

00:25:10.711 --> 00:25:15.115
and then this is you with me
as a baby.

00:25:16.183 --> 00:25:17.651
[Terry] Yup.

00:25:18.952 --> 00:25:20.664
Baby beside baby!

00:25:20.688 --> 00:25:21.731
[laughing]

00:25:21.755 --> 00:25:24.768
[Terry] Her firstborn
and you're my firstborn.

00:25:24.792 --> 00:25:26.193
[Ecko] Yup.

00:25:30.297 --> 00:25:32.041
[Terry] I'm at peace.

00:25:32.065 --> 00:25:33.510
[Ecko] At peace?

00:25:33.534 --> 00:25:34.578
[Terry] Peace.

00:25:34.602 --> 00:25:35.836
[Ecko] Oh.

00:25:36.069 --> 00:25:39.516
So, yeah, I'm at peace now.

00:25:39.540 --> 00:25:40.941
[exhales]

00:26:06.133 --> 00:26:07.911
[♪♪♪]

00:26:07.935 --> 00:26:14.751
[Charlene] We're going to visit
the community that I...

00:26:14.775 --> 00:26:15.719
grew up in,

00:26:15.743 --> 00:26:17.787
which was a very...

00:26:17.811 --> 00:26:20.690
very White community.

00:26:20.714 --> 00:26:23.026
And...

00:26:23.050 --> 00:26:26.563
I guess the astonishing thing is

00:26:26.587 --> 00:26:27.263
it's...

00:26:27.287 --> 00:26:32.268
it's not very far
from my home Nation,

00:26:32.292 --> 00:26:33.703
but I just didn't...

00:26:33.727 --> 00:26:37.731
I didn't think that
I was from somewhere so close.

00:26:41.001 --> 00:26:46.149
I think I intuitively knew
I was different

00:26:46.173 --> 00:26:48.184
from about grade six on,

00:26:48.208 --> 00:26:52.055
but I couldn't put
the pieces together,

00:26:52.079 --> 00:26:53.590
or maybe I wasn't ready to,

00:26:53.614 --> 00:26:59.820
until I started to kind of
watch for clues in my 40s.

00:27:01.088 --> 00:27:03.066
And then it was just...

00:27:03.090 --> 00:27:05.935
not long before
my 50th birthday

00:27:05.959 --> 00:27:07.003
that I...

00:27:07.027 --> 00:27:09.906
that I started
to go through the paperwork

00:27:09.930 --> 00:27:12.199
and actually prove my status.

00:27:23.210 --> 00:27:23.920
I'm coming here

00:27:23.944 --> 00:27:30.259
to release some pieces
from my childhood

00:27:30.283 --> 00:27:33.286
that I don't need
to carry anymore.

00:27:34.121 --> 00:27:37.033
I can only speak
for myself personally,

00:27:37.057 --> 00:27:40.637
but if we can't...

00:27:40.661 --> 00:27:41.738
if we can't forgive

00:27:41.762 --> 00:27:45.842
the atrocities
that have happened to us,

00:27:45.866 --> 00:27:49.002
that heaviness
will just stick with us.

00:27:49.937 --> 00:27:50.413
And I had--

00:27:50.437 --> 00:27:53.783
I had
a very privileged upbringing.

00:27:53.807 --> 00:27:56.019
I had a great family.

00:27:56.043 --> 00:28:00.089
So, any heaviness
that I carry

00:28:00.113 --> 00:28:02.692
is minuscule

00:28:02.716 --> 00:28:05.853
to the heaviness
that I can only imagine.

00:28:12.159 --> 00:28:13.002
If you look across,

00:28:13.026 --> 00:28:15.338
you can kind of see
two small houses,

00:28:15.362 --> 00:28:19.242
and we're the second house
just beside a big hedge now.

00:28:19.266 --> 00:28:20.109
When I was growing up,

00:28:20.133 --> 00:28:21.945
the hedge was not
that much taller than me,

00:28:21.969 --> 00:28:26.339
but now the hedge looks like
it's about 25, 30 feet tall.

00:28:33.981 --> 00:28:35.358
When I was young,

00:28:35.382 --> 00:28:38.862
I had lots of part-time jobs.

00:28:38.886 --> 00:28:42.899
I was probably 10, 11, 12.

00:28:42.923 --> 00:28:45.869
I used to pick asparagus.

00:28:45.893 --> 00:28:49.939
I used to plant and hoe

00:28:49.963 --> 00:28:54.377
and cap and pick watermelon
and cantaloupe.

00:28:54.401 --> 00:28:59.182
And I raised enough money
to buy my own horse

00:28:59.206 --> 00:29:02.185
when I was about 13, maybe.

00:29:02.209 --> 00:29:04.821
And I only had enough money
to buy the horse.

00:29:04.845 --> 00:29:07.214
I didn't have enough money
for the saddle.

00:29:15.288 --> 00:29:19.226
Sometimes, you don't fully
understand what's missing.

00:29:20.027 --> 00:29:22.405
You don't really
fully understand the void

00:29:22.429 --> 00:29:25.108
until it starts
to get filled in,

00:29:25.132 --> 00:29:27.835
that emptiness or the void.

00:29:37.978 --> 00:29:40.456
[Madeline] I have yet to see
the inside of your home yet.

00:29:40.480 --> 00:29:41.858
[Willow]
I was just thinking that.

00:29:41.882 --> 00:29:43.292
[Madeline] I'm very excited.

00:29:43.316 --> 00:29:43.827
[Willow] Cool.

00:29:43.851 --> 00:29:45.094
[Chief Wayne Christian]
Yeah, come on in.

00:29:45.118 --> 00:29:45.895
[Willow] All right.

00:29:45.919 --> 00:29:46.863
We'll let Maddie
get set up in there.

00:29:46.887 --> 00:29:47.897
[Madeline] Yeah,
I would love to have you two

00:29:47.921 --> 00:29:49.265
at just those chairs
that you're at right now.

00:29:49.289 --> 00:29:50.166
That would be great.

00:29:50.190 --> 00:29:51.768
[Chief Wayne Christian]
This is cool.

00:29:51.792 --> 00:29:54.003
I'm going through
some old stuff, literally.

00:29:54.027 --> 00:29:55.438
[Madeline] I'm just going
to float behind you

00:29:55.462 --> 00:29:57.273
and wait to see what happens.

00:29:57.297 --> 00:29:59.075
-Yeah.
-Okay. Perfect.

00:29:59.099 --> 00:30:00.877
And... action!

00:30:00.901 --> 00:30:01.477
Action!

00:30:01.502 --> 00:30:04.872
All right.
Let's see what you've got.

00:30:06.473 --> 00:30:08.275
Yeah. I can see...

00:30:09.910 --> 00:30:13.322
This is sort of the call
to join and start the process.

00:30:13.346 --> 00:30:15.458
Right? So, really old-time.

00:30:15.482 --> 00:30:18.061
Really, the messaging
really was our children,

00:30:18.085 --> 00:30:20.196
our survival,
our responsibility.

00:30:20.220 --> 00:30:20.530
Mm-hmm.

00:30:20.554 --> 00:30:22.098
[Chief Wayne Christian]
We did that kind of a campaign,

00:30:22.122 --> 00:30:24.467
and it was really
quite a media blitz.

00:30:24.491 --> 00:30:25.368
It's the whole...

00:30:25.392 --> 00:30:27.270
[Willow] Mm-hmm.
So much captured.

00:30:27.294 --> 00:30:28.171
Hey, I mean, it was a huge deal.

00:30:28.195 --> 00:30:29.939
[Chief Wayne Christian]
Yeah, there was so much of it

00:30:29.963 --> 00:30:30.940
that was in the news back then

00:30:30.964 --> 00:30:31.975
because this was unheard of.

00:30:31.999 --> 00:30:33.342
Indians didn't do this stuff.

00:30:33.366 --> 00:30:35.545
Children of chaos, huh?

00:30:35.569 --> 00:30:36.345
[Willow] Hmm.

00:30:36.369 --> 00:30:37.814
[Chief Wayne Christian]
See, this is the one

00:30:37.838 --> 00:30:39.482
when we marched
to Grace McCarthy's,

00:30:39.507 --> 00:30:41.585
the Minister's house
at that time.

00:30:41.609 --> 00:30:43.853
[Willow]
Wow. I didn't realize the scale,

00:30:43.877 --> 00:30:44.487
but seeing that picture,

00:30:44.512 --> 00:30:46.222
it just shows you
the actual scale of the...

00:30:46.246 --> 00:30:47.490
[Chief Wayne Christian]
Yeah, it was...

00:30:47.515 --> 00:30:48.391
quite, quite humongous.

00:30:48.415 --> 00:30:49.258
[Willow] It's pretty amazing.

00:30:49.282 --> 00:30:51.394
[Chief Wayne Christian]
To really understand this,

00:30:51.418 --> 00:30:54.363
in 1979,

00:30:54.387 --> 00:30:56.399
I was elected Chief.

00:30:56.423 --> 00:30:58.502
Then a young mother came to me.

00:30:58.526 --> 00:30:59.268
She and her boys

00:30:59.292 --> 00:31:01.929
were going to be removed
from her home.

00:31:02.495 --> 00:31:03.973
And around our Council Table,

00:31:03.997 --> 00:31:05.441
we began to have the discussion

00:31:05.465 --> 00:31:08.545
about children, you know,
being put into care.

00:31:08.569 --> 00:31:12.381
And each one of us at the table
were former children in care.

00:31:12.405 --> 00:31:13.249
[Willow] Hmm.

00:31:13.273 --> 00:31:16.385
And so, then we started
to do some research,

00:31:16.409 --> 00:31:20.289
and of our community
of 350 approximately,

00:31:20.313 --> 00:31:23.392
we had over
a hundred children removed,

00:31:23.416 --> 00:31:26.129
so every family
in our community

00:31:26.153 --> 00:31:29.332
had been affected
by the Child Welfare System,

00:31:29.356 --> 00:31:31.167
Child Welfare Removal System,

00:31:31.191 --> 00:31:31.601
And that's what

00:31:31.625 --> 00:31:33.136
the Indian Child Caravan
was all about--

00:31:33.160 --> 00:31:35.872
organizing our People
at the community level

00:31:35.896 --> 00:31:38.007
to do four things.

00:31:38.031 --> 00:31:41.911
First, recognition
of our jurisdiction.

00:31:41.935 --> 00:31:43.913
Return of our children.

00:31:43.937 --> 00:31:46.616
Jointly plan
for those children in care.

00:31:46.640 --> 00:31:47.416
And the fourth thing is

00:31:47.440 --> 00:31:49.052
we would go
to the federal government

00:31:49.076 --> 00:31:49.452
for resources,

00:31:49.476 --> 00:31:51.420
because it was always
about the feds and province

00:31:51.444 --> 00:31:53.322
arguing about
who had jurisdiction,

00:31:53.346 --> 00:31:55.525
and we said, "No.
Neither one of you do.

00:31:55.549 --> 00:31:57.126
We have inherent jurisdiction."

00:31:57.150 --> 00:31:59.563
So, that's the context
from this work

00:31:59.587 --> 00:32:01.565
and what this is all about.

00:32:01.589 --> 00:32:03.166
So, this is the copy

00:32:03.190 --> 00:32:07.170
of the agreement we signed
with the province.

00:32:07.194 --> 00:32:07.671
[Willow] Wow.

00:32:07.695 --> 00:32:09.438
That's when we,
if you can see it,

00:32:09.462 --> 00:32:10.239
she actually--

00:32:10.263 --> 00:32:12.275
the Minister
and the Deputy Premier--

00:32:12.299 --> 00:32:14.611
actually wrote this out.

00:32:14.635 --> 00:32:16.980
It's her handwriting.

00:32:17.004 --> 00:32:17.681
You know, and it said,

00:32:17.705 --> 00:32:19.182
"The Minister of Human Resources

00:32:19.206 --> 00:32:19.583
agrees to respect

00:32:19.607 --> 00:32:21.685
the authority of
the Spallumcheen Band Council

00:32:21.709 --> 00:32:23.953
to assume
responsibility and control

00:32:23.977 --> 00:32:26.189
over their own children.

00:32:26.213 --> 00:32:28.057
The Minister of Human Resources

00:32:28.081 --> 00:32:29.025
further agrees

00:32:29.049 --> 00:32:29.492
to the desirability

00:32:29.517 --> 00:32:33.963
of returning Indian children
of the Spallumcheen Band

00:32:33.987 --> 00:32:36.099
presently in care."

00:32:36.123 --> 00:32:38.358
[Willow] Wow.

00:32:41.061 --> 00:32:43.631
[traditional drumming]

00:32:46.299 --> 00:32:48.111
Since 1980 to 2022,

00:32:48.135 --> 00:32:51.681
we've had over 500-some children
born into the community.

00:32:51.705 --> 00:32:54.107
We know who every child is.

00:32:54.642 --> 00:32:57.110
No other community
can say that.

00:32:59.212 --> 00:33:01.481
[traditional drumming]

00:33:15.996 --> 00:33:19.242
[Charlene] Our film,
Coming Home for the Children,

00:33:19.266 --> 00:33:20.243
is really a story

00:33:20.267 --> 00:33:25.138
about returning home
as an adult adoptee.

00:33:27.741 --> 00:33:30.486
And in this process,

00:33:30.511 --> 00:33:34.047
the healing is happening
as we film.

00:33:44.525 --> 00:33:48.004
This is allowing Chief Wayne

00:33:48.028 --> 00:33:50.139
space to express

00:33:50.163 --> 00:33:53.442
what he feels
he needs to express

00:33:53.466 --> 00:33:55.044
in a community centre

00:33:55.068 --> 00:33:58.238
that he was responsible
for building...

00:34:00.307 --> 00:34:01.017
...that I'm not sure

00:34:01.041 --> 00:34:06.055
he's ever had a moment
to let it sink in.

00:34:06.079 --> 00:34:06.723
Yeah.

00:34:06.747 --> 00:34:09.759
It's kind of strange
being in here all by myself.

00:34:09.783 --> 00:34:11.060
[Charlene]
It's kind of neat, though.

00:34:11.084 --> 00:34:13.386
-It's kind of neat.
-It's kind of cool.

00:34:13.721 --> 00:34:17.224
[Charlene]
I'm going to back up.

00:34:17.691 --> 00:34:18.602
So, I think this morning

00:34:18.626 --> 00:34:23.039
is just slowing down enough
in ceremony

00:34:23.063 --> 00:34:30.237
to really feel the centre
of this community.

00:34:34.542 --> 00:34:36.052
When he first met me,

00:34:36.076 --> 00:34:37.420
he just kept saying to me,

00:34:37.444 --> 00:34:39.388
"I'm so proud of you."

00:34:39.412 --> 00:34:44.093
And I just want
to be able to say that to him

00:34:44.117 --> 00:34:46.353
and to have him really feel it.

00:34:52.092 --> 00:34:57.707
[♪♪♪]

00:34:57.731 --> 00:35:00.100
[singing]

00:35:10.243 --> 00:35:14.648
[♪♪♪]

00:35:23.791 --> 00:35:26.393
The four sacred directions.

00:35:27.394 --> 00:35:29.506
Creator, Grandmothers,
Grandfathers, Father Sun,

00:35:29.530 --> 00:35:31.131
Mother Earth.

00:35:32.399 --> 00:35:34.511
I call back all those things

00:35:34.535 --> 00:35:37.638
that were taken from us
at this time.

00:35:39.406 --> 00:35:40.383
All the songs,

00:35:40.407 --> 00:35:43.219
all the ceremonies...

00:35:43.243 --> 00:35:45.488
all the name places,

00:35:45.513 --> 00:35:47.815
our language, Secwepemctsin.

00:35:48.248 --> 00:35:50.727
The love we have for each other,
we call that back.

00:35:50.751 --> 00:35:53.129
All those things
that were taken from us,

00:35:53.153 --> 00:35:55.222
we call that back.

00:35:55.823 --> 00:35:58.358
We welcome little ones.

00:35:59.827 --> 00:36:03.864
The spirit of the children.

00:36:05.566 --> 00:36:07.777
I ask that we continue

00:36:07.801 --> 00:36:10.413
to clear that path for them
in a good way:

00:36:10.437 --> 00:36:11.881
to the front, to the right,
to the left,

00:36:11.905 --> 00:36:14.250
behind, above, and below,

00:36:14.274 --> 00:36:16.577
but most importantly,
from within.

00:36:19.479 --> 00:36:22.516
All of my relatives.

00:36:24.184 --> 00:36:27.764
[singing a traditional song]

00:36:27.788 --> 00:36:29.432
[Charlene]
This will be the building

00:36:29.456 --> 00:36:30.600
that I come home to

00:36:30.624 --> 00:36:33.402
when I do
my community ceremony--

00:36:33.426 --> 00:36:36.496
when I'm ready
for that to happen.

00:36:38.832 --> 00:36:40.577
So, being in there,

00:36:40.601 --> 00:36:42.746
just with my team,

00:36:42.770 --> 00:36:44.213
you know, my family,

00:36:44.237 --> 00:36:45.549
and Chief Wayne,

00:36:45.573 --> 00:36:48.585
was a good start.

00:36:48.609 --> 00:36:50.544
It was a good first step.

00:36:57.484 --> 00:37:02.690
[♪♪♪]

00:37:04.992 --> 00:37:08.204
[Alfonso]
Good morning,x wu' p' a' lich'.

00:37:08.228 --> 00:37:10.540
It is good to be here
with you today,

00:37:10.564 --> 00:37:12.375
and I'm very excited

00:37:12.399 --> 00:37:14.544
for you to share some of your...

00:37:14.568 --> 00:37:16.746
you know, some of your stories,

00:37:16.770 --> 00:37:18.839
your experiences in life.

00:38:07.420 --> 00:38:08.331
My goal is to reach out

00:38:08.355 --> 00:38:10.800
to different Nations
of canoe families

00:38:10.824 --> 00:38:12.802
to share their teachings,

00:38:12.826 --> 00:38:14.470
so that in the summertime,

00:38:14.494 --> 00:38:15.672
we'll have our own team

00:38:15.696 --> 00:38:18.431
that we could
take these kids out.

00:38:47.995 --> 00:38:48.437
I agree.

00:38:48.461 --> 00:38:52.876
I feel like I got a lot
that I need to prove still,

00:38:52.900 --> 00:38:56.780
but there's a lot of passion
in what I want to do.

00:38:56.804 --> 00:39:00.674
My dreams, my vision is endless.

00:39:33.974 --> 00:39:36.009
Okay...

00:39:37.678 --> 00:39:38.387
You told me,

00:39:38.411 --> 00:39:40.690
"You need to do
a canoe-awakening ceremony

00:39:40.714 --> 00:39:44.017
before you take the canoe out."

00:39:44.785 --> 00:39:47.764
And so I asked you
if you could teach us.

00:39:47.788 --> 00:39:48.898
Teach us--
me and the youth--

00:39:48.922 --> 00:39:51.124
because I've never
done one before.

00:40:07.040 --> 00:40:08.985
So, that's
where you remember it from,

00:40:09.009 --> 00:40:10.944
when you were a child?

00:40:14.047 --> 00:40:16.793
So, what I would like...

00:40:16.817 --> 00:40:18.528
if you're okay with it,

00:40:18.552 --> 00:40:21.497
is to do
the canoe-awakening ceremony.

00:40:21.522 --> 00:40:26.503
I'm planning on doing one
for the community next spring

00:40:26.527 --> 00:40:27.837
and would love for you

00:40:27.861 --> 00:40:31.198
to be there
and share your teachings.

00:40:39.740 --> 00:40:41.551
You are always in my prayers,

00:40:41.575 --> 00:40:43.086
but I feel like
you have the strength

00:40:43.110 --> 00:40:46.790
because you have surprised me
so many times already.

00:40:46.814 --> 00:40:48.782
Hmm.

00:41:05.733 --> 00:41:07.711
[Calvin] I was born
in my Grandfather's home,

00:41:07.735 --> 00:41:11.748
and I got to spend a lot of time
with my Grandparents,

00:41:11.772 --> 00:41:13.016
especially my Grandmother,

00:41:13.040 --> 00:41:17.086
who taught me at that time
about medicines.

00:41:17.110 --> 00:41:20.814
She taught me about culture.

00:41:25.719 --> 00:41:28.565
And then, as I grew older,

00:41:28.589 --> 00:41:30.066
my Uncles and my Aunties

00:41:30.090 --> 00:41:34.595
all played a role
in who I was going to become.

00:41:36.496 --> 00:41:40.209
Little did I know
that I was being taught.

00:41:40.233 --> 00:41:44.705
I was being groomed
to be a Chief.

00:42:30.017 --> 00:42:32.261
The first time for Emberly, eh?

00:42:32.285 --> 00:42:33.262
[Alfonso] Yup.

00:42:33.286 --> 00:42:35.322
Up the inlet?

00:42:35.956 --> 00:42:37.901
[Alfonso]
I mean, this far up, yeah.

00:42:37.925 --> 00:42:38.902
Yeah.

00:42:38.926 --> 00:42:40.804
[Emberly] It's my first time!

00:42:40.828 --> 00:42:42.295
[laughs]

00:42:47.768 --> 00:42:48.211
If you go and visit

00:42:48.235 --> 00:42:51.047
all of the sites
that are discovered,

00:42:51.071 --> 00:42:51.681
you've got to think

00:42:51.705 --> 00:42:56.820
that there were more than
30-, 40,000 of our People

00:42:56.844 --> 00:42:59.847
spread throughout
all of this land, right?

00:43:01.048 --> 00:43:02.025
They chose to live

00:43:02.049 --> 00:43:06.730
in small pieces of land
like this...

00:43:06.754 --> 00:43:10.634
because of the food source
from the ocean,

00:43:10.658 --> 00:43:12.268
from the land,

00:43:12.292 --> 00:43:14.971
the medicines,

00:43:14.995 --> 00:43:18.241
the run of salmon,

00:43:18.265 --> 00:43:21.001
and just really enjoying life,
you know?

00:43:25.873 --> 00:43:28.251
Oh, yeah.

00:43:28.275 --> 00:43:30.053
Yeah.

00:43:30.077 --> 00:43:32.946
This is a special kind
of moss, eh?

00:43:46.927 --> 00:43:48.228
[Emberly] Huh?

00:44:17.024 --> 00:44:20.904
[Calvin] So, by the time
I was 18 or 19,

00:44:20.928 --> 00:44:23.430
my father passed away
as a Chief.

00:44:25.866 --> 00:44:27.176
And lo and behold,

00:44:27.200 --> 00:44:32.272
I was stepping into his shoes
by the time I was 18.

00:44:33.774 --> 00:44:34.884
At 19, I was ready.

00:44:34.908 --> 00:44:37.878
I was ready to be a leader.

00:44:42.883 --> 00:44:43.292
So, in my 20s,

00:44:43.316 --> 00:44:49.022
I became the youngest
Chief in Canada at that time.

00:44:51.224 --> 00:44:55.672
And...

00:44:55.696 --> 00:44:58.307
I guess that was my destiny.

00:44:58.331 --> 00:45:00.209
So, as I stepped into the role,

00:45:00.233 --> 00:45:02.746
I found myself undertaking

00:45:02.770 --> 00:45:06.940
the challenges
that my father had left me...

00:45:08.408 --> 00:45:15.148
...which was the struggle
for justice, independence.

00:45:19.386 --> 00:45:21.955
And that was huge.

00:45:25.092 --> 00:45:27.294
That was a huge undertaking.

00:45:27.895 --> 00:45:31.331
Excuse me,
as I'm remembering it now...

00:45:33.734 --> 00:45:36.436
[Alfonso] Thank you
for sharing that, Papa.

00:45:38.939 --> 00:45:39.716
[man] So, to give you

00:45:39.740 --> 00:45:41.117
a little bit of background
on our Chief,

00:45:41.141 --> 00:45:44.253
he is the first Chief
in Canadian history

00:45:44.277 --> 00:45:47.123
to host a political
talk show on TV.

00:45:47.147 --> 00:45:48.391
Are you rolling?

00:45:48.415 --> 00:45:50.193
Okay, sir!

00:45:50.217 --> 00:45:51.260
Thank you.

00:45:51.284 --> 00:45:54.021
[Calvin] Great.

00:45:55.288 --> 00:45:57.366
Well, thank you, Justin,
for being on my show.

00:45:57.390 --> 00:45:59.769
It's a pleasure
to be here, Calvin.

00:45:59.793 --> 00:46:00.203
[Calvin] Yeah.

00:46:00.227 --> 00:46:02.906
I just have to give you
a little bit of history.

00:46:02.930 --> 00:46:06.275
We're from a little village
that's just 30 miles from here.

00:46:06.299 --> 00:46:08.377
And Sechelt
and the shíshálh Nation,

00:46:08.401 --> 00:46:09.946
as you probably are aware,

00:46:09.970 --> 00:46:12.949
are the first
self-governing band in Canada.

00:46:12.973 --> 00:46:15.519
We fought long and hard
to get to where we are,

00:46:15.543 --> 00:46:19.055
and it's been over,
well, almost 40 years.

00:46:19.079 --> 00:46:20.524
I was a very young Chief then,

00:46:20.548 --> 00:46:23.226
and as a matter of fact,
I got to meet your Dad.

00:46:23.250 --> 00:46:26.362
And the last time
we met with Chrétien,

00:46:26.386 --> 00:46:27.430
he gave us some advice.

00:46:27.454 --> 00:46:29.833
He said,
"Develop your People

00:46:29.857 --> 00:46:31.467
and develop your land."

00:46:31.491 --> 00:46:32.335
Yeah.

00:46:32.359 --> 00:46:35.471
[Calvin]
I reminded Justin Trudeau

00:46:35.495 --> 00:46:39.142
our goal is jurisdiction

00:46:39.166 --> 00:46:41.969
and getting
all of our land back.

00:46:43.937 --> 00:46:47.016
We're going to be
in total control

00:46:47.040 --> 00:46:49.877
and in authority
of all of our land.

00:46:51.478 --> 00:46:52.188
All the taxes,

00:46:52.212 --> 00:46:56.483
all the resources in our land
belong to us.

00:46:59.119 --> 00:47:00.296
And we are going to be

00:47:00.320 --> 00:47:03.390
a proud, dignified People
once again.

00:47:06.493 --> 00:47:12.408
[Alfonso] I know the traumas
of colonialism and genocide.

00:47:12.432 --> 00:47:13.276
It doesn't just go away,

00:47:13.300 --> 00:47:16.870
it takes more than
a lifetime to heal from that.

00:47:24.845 --> 00:47:29.583
[♪♪♪]

00:47:33.286 --> 00:47:35.331
My next question,

00:47:35.355 --> 00:47:36.365
a tough question.

00:47:36.389 --> 00:47:38.602
[Calvin] Mm-hmm?

00:47:38.626 --> 00:47:39.503
[Alfonso] What can you share

00:47:39.527 --> 00:47:42.262
about the residential school
that was here?

00:47:44.264 --> 00:47:46.375
[Calvin] St. Augustine's
was built in 1904.

00:47:46.399 --> 00:47:52.139
We were surrounded
by the residential school.

00:47:53.306 --> 00:47:56.620
You know, remember
children up in the third floor

00:47:56.644 --> 00:48:00.056
would be looking out
down onto the village,

00:48:00.080 --> 00:48:03.426
watching their Elders
conducting themselves,

00:48:03.450 --> 00:48:04.427
smoking fish,

00:48:04.451 --> 00:48:05.595
and that kind of thing.

00:48:05.619 --> 00:48:09.332
And they weren't allowed
to go down and participate

00:48:09.356 --> 00:48:12.993
because they were locked up
in a residential school.

00:48:16.229 --> 00:48:18.542
The residential school...

00:48:18.566 --> 00:48:22.570
our People burnt it down
in the '70s.

00:48:23.236 --> 00:48:24.447
The young People did.

00:48:24.471 --> 00:48:26.916
And I know the ones that did it.

00:48:26.940 --> 00:48:29.318
They were old chums of mine...

00:48:29.342 --> 00:48:30.319
who are long gone now.

00:48:30.343 --> 00:48:35.224
They didn't survive
what they had endured,

00:48:35.248 --> 00:48:37.384
whereas I survived.

00:48:37.951 --> 00:48:38.895
But the reason
why they burnt it down

00:48:38.919 --> 00:48:43.390
was to get rid of that memory
of what had happened to them.

00:48:44.157 --> 00:48:47.571
That was a message
to the older ones

00:48:47.595 --> 00:48:50.330
that we need
to revive our culture.

00:48:59.973 --> 00:49:03.953
[Alfonso] What is your message
with this film that we're doing?

00:49:03.977 --> 00:49:06.379
What do you want people to know?

00:49:12.520 --> 00:49:13.496
[Calvin] I see our young People

00:49:13.521 --> 00:49:17.133
are starting to walk
with their heads held high,

00:49:17.157 --> 00:49:19.068
with their drumming
and their singing,

00:49:19.092 --> 00:49:21.428
and their pride is coming back.

00:49:24.431 --> 00:49:26.943
The dignity
that was taken away from us

00:49:26.967 --> 00:49:29.436
is being revived.

00:49:34.107 --> 00:49:36.485
I'm just so happy

00:49:36.510 --> 00:49:39.547
that I'm still here
to witness that.

00:50:13.113 --> 00:50:16.550
[singing a traditional song]

00:50:37.538 --> 00:50:41.441
[singing a traditional song]

00:50:54.187 --> 00:50:56.690
Thank you guys
for joining me today.

00:50:58.425 --> 00:50:59.302
One of the things

00:50:59.326 --> 00:51:03.507
that I have chosen
to take responsibility of

00:51:03.531 --> 00:51:06.776
is taking care of the Longhouse.

00:51:06.800 --> 00:51:12.472
Not only keeping it clean
but lighting up the fire...

00:51:13.440 --> 00:51:16.485
...which, for me, I believe,

00:51:16.510 --> 00:51:18.454
awakens the Longhouse.

00:51:18.478 --> 00:51:20.223
Allowing the smoke

00:51:20.247 --> 00:51:23.693
to spread out
through the Longhouse--

00:51:23.717 --> 00:51:27.130
the corners, the crevices--

00:51:27.154 --> 00:51:29.690
to cleanse the Longhouse.

00:51:34.662 --> 00:51:36.573
This House is very much alive.

00:51:36.597 --> 00:51:40.109
We have a lot
of Ancestor spirits

00:51:40.133 --> 00:51:41.110
that come here

00:51:41.134 --> 00:51:43.212
with the work that we do.

00:51:43.236 --> 00:51:44.113
I like to connect

00:51:44.137 --> 00:51:48.451
and just let them know
that I'm here.

00:51:48.475 --> 00:51:50.277
So, I share my song.

00:51:50.844 --> 00:51:54.624
I'm calling upon them...

00:51:54.648 --> 00:51:56.349
just to connect.

00:51:57.384 --> 00:51:59.486
I think it's important that way.

00:52:05.125 --> 00:52:05.802
This morning, last night,

00:52:05.826 --> 00:52:09.238
I was a little bit nervous
and excited.

00:52:09.262 --> 00:52:13.400
But yeah, now I feel
a little bit more calm.

00:52:14.267 --> 00:52:17.871
Now it's just wait
for Ecko to get here.

00:52:18.405 --> 00:52:21.274
Wait for everyone else
to get here.

00:52:30.684 --> 00:52:32.152
I think so.

00:52:32.520 --> 00:52:34.588
Never have too many blankies.

00:52:46.199 --> 00:52:46.743
Beautiful.

00:52:46.767 --> 00:52:48.144
I do have a run of show
here for you

00:52:48.168 --> 00:52:49.412
so that you can kind of...

00:52:49.436 --> 00:52:50.871
-Yeah.
-Thanks.

00:52:53.941 --> 00:52:56.485
[Ecko] This beautiful space

00:52:56.510 --> 00:52:58.822
is where I identify

00:52:58.846 --> 00:53:01.925
as the place
that gave me my wings to fly

00:53:01.949 --> 00:53:05.719
in the work that I'm now doing
out in the world.

00:53:08.856 --> 00:53:10.734
We hold gratitude

00:53:10.758 --> 00:53:13.537
for the opportunity...

00:53:13.561 --> 00:53:16.172
to share good medicine today

00:53:16.196 --> 00:53:17.440
through the gifts

00:53:17.464 --> 00:53:20.744
that myself and my brother
have been given,

00:53:20.768 --> 00:53:22.779
and...

00:53:22.803 --> 00:53:26.716
it's almost like
the fire has been stoked,

00:53:26.740 --> 00:53:29.786
and for us
to step into our roles

00:53:29.810 --> 00:53:32.455
and return to community today

00:53:32.479 --> 00:53:34.447
is a beautiful thing.

00:53:45.593 --> 00:53:48.672
Thought you were going to be
first in line?

00:53:48.696 --> 00:53:50.497
[laughing]

00:54:04.512 --> 00:54:06.747
[indistinct conversations]

00:54:12.520 --> 00:54:14.397
[Alfonso]
Well, welcome, everyone.

00:54:14.421 --> 00:54:17.701
?imash ?imash ewk mes syiya.

00:54:17.725 --> 00:54:20.728
Welcome
all my friends and relatives.

00:54:21.394 --> 00:54:22.739
Kwamanchi chen skwish.

00:54:22.763 --> 00:54:24.908
"Kwamanchi"
is my traditional name,

00:54:24.932 --> 00:54:25.842
Spanish Chief,

00:54:25.866 --> 00:54:29.336
and my Aztec and Mayan ancestry.

00:54:29.703 --> 00:54:34.417
Today, we are going
down a path together

00:54:34.441 --> 00:54:35.819
as a production group,

00:54:35.843 --> 00:54:36.986
as a family,

00:54:37.010 --> 00:54:39.022
taking teachings
from one another,

00:54:39.046 --> 00:54:41.048
from our Elders as well.

00:54:42.415 --> 00:54:43.392
So, I feel like this is

00:54:43.416 --> 00:54:45.261
an amazing journey
that we're on.

00:54:45.285 --> 00:54:46.930
But there's also a vision.

00:54:46.954 --> 00:54:50.891
The vision is to get
a canoe family started.

00:54:51.692 --> 00:54:54.538
The government put us
here in Sechelt--

00:54:54.562 --> 00:54:56.640
a beautiful place--

00:54:56.664 --> 00:54:59.676
but we come from the Motherland,

00:54:59.700 --> 00:55:02.646
which is still Mother Nature--

00:55:02.670 --> 00:55:06.840
and that's where we need
to go for our healing.

00:55:07.875 --> 00:55:11.320
So, I'd like to share a song,

00:55:11.344 --> 00:55:13.080
a song that I've composed.

00:55:14.782 --> 00:55:16.526
The song came up

00:55:16.550 --> 00:55:19.763
before we did
our first ground penetration,

00:55:19.787 --> 00:55:25.058
scanning of the unmarked graves
of the residential school.

00:55:25.593 --> 00:55:28.772
I was just sitting
at work one day,

00:55:28.796 --> 00:55:32.509
planning, programming,

00:55:32.533 --> 00:55:36.336
and I just started singing.

00:55:37.037 --> 00:55:39.315
I kind of liked the song,

00:55:39.339 --> 00:55:42.318
but it just got so catchy,
I couldn't stop singing it.

00:55:42.342 --> 00:55:48.057
I wanted to teach
those children the song--

00:55:48.081 --> 00:55:53.329
a song that they wouldn't
be allowed to sing.

00:55:53.353 --> 00:55:56.790
[singing]

00:56:22.516 --> 00:56:25.653
[singing]

00:56:32.793 --> 00:56:38.465
[♪♪♪]

00:56:45.673 --> 00:56:50.110
[♪♪♪]

00:56:56.584 --> 00:57:00.888
[♪♪♪]

00:57:13.100 --> 00:57:17.413
[♪♪♪]

00:57:17.437 --> 00:57:17.947
[Terry] Okay.

00:57:17.971 --> 00:57:20.974
[Ecko] Can already
feel myself wanting to cry.

00:57:29.049 --> 00:57:31.094
Can you share your experience

00:57:31.118 --> 00:57:35.464
of being taken away
to residential school?

00:57:35.488 --> 00:57:37.691
Yeah.

00:57:39.226 --> 00:57:42.062
So, the summer I turned seven...

00:57:46.734 --> 00:57:49.937
...we were playing outside.

00:57:51.539 --> 00:57:53.850
You know, we could see the road,

00:57:53.874 --> 00:57:55.451
the highway,

00:57:55.475 --> 00:57:56.686
from the house.

00:57:56.710 --> 00:57:58.021
And all of a sudden,

00:57:58.045 --> 00:58:02.191
we could hear these cars
coming up the driveway,

00:58:02.215 --> 00:58:03.660
and one was a cop car--

00:58:03.684 --> 00:58:04.227
because we recognized

00:58:04.251 --> 00:58:08.055
the red light
in the centre of the top.

00:58:08.889 --> 00:58:09.232
And Mom said,

00:58:09.256 --> 00:58:11.835
"All right, you kids,
go hide in the woodshed--

00:58:11.859 --> 00:58:12.602
all of you--

00:58:12.626 --> 00:58:14.604
and don't say nothing.

00:58:14.628 --> 00:58:15.739
Nothing!"

00:58:15.763 --> 00:58:18.775
And we just held our breath.

00:58:18.799 --> 00:58:19.943
And...

00:58:19.967 --> 00:58:21.010
we could hear the RCMP

00:58:21.034 --> 00:58:24.204
bang, bang, banging on the door.

00:58:24.505 --> 00:58:30.486
"We know you have
school-age kids in the house!

00:58:30.511 --> 00:58:34.181
If you don't release them,
we'll take you to jail."

00:58:36.717 --> 00:58:39.553
And Mom opens the kitchen door.

00:58:39.820 --> 00:58:44.033
She goes, "Terry, John Daniel,
come in."

00:58:44.057 --> 00:58:47.904
And so, the other kids
stayed in the woodshed.

00:58:47.928 --> 00:58:52.900
And so John Daniel and I
went into the house.

00:58:56.036 --> 00:58:59.907
She said, "You two have to go.

00:59:00.841 --> 00:59:05.789
Go with the RCMP
and the other car,

00:59:05.813 --> 00:59:07.557
but you need to pack
some clothes.

00:59:07.581 --> 00:59:09.659
You're going to be gone
for a while."

00:59:09.683 --> 00:59:15.155
And we didn't know
what was going to happen.

00:59:16.557 --> 00:59:19.836
Then...

00:59:19.860 --> 00:59:21.137
one by one,

00:59:21.161 --> 00:59:23.039
each of us...

00:59:23.063 --> 00:59:24.574
had to get our hair cut.

00:59:24.598 --> 00:59:25.174
Like, literally,

00:59:25.198 --> 00:59:28.978
they just shaved us
right in the waiting room.

00:59:29.002 --> 00:59:34.274
Just literally
until it was just little stubs.

00:59:34.675 --> 00:59:42.325
And then they sprinkled us
with white powder head to toe,

00:59:42.349 --> 00:59:43.660
and said,

00:59:43.684 --> 00:59:49.265
"Okay, now we're going
to take you to your dormitory."

00:59:49.289 --> 00:59:54.161
So, this is all new lingo
as a seven-year-old kid.

00:59:56.997 --> 00:59:59.767
I don't know
how we survived, really.

01:00:01.635 --> 01:00:03.312
You know, what kept us going.

01:00:03.336 --> 01:00:06.206
[Ecko] Yeah.

01:00:07.107 --> 01:00:08.609
Okay...

01:00:09.943 --> 01:00:11.588
September, October, November

01:00:11.612 --> 01:00:17.727
is when our supervisor,
Derek Clark, showed up.

01:00:17.751 --> 01:00:21.865
And he had a black and white TV,

01:00:21.889 --> 01:00:22.866
that big,

01:00:22.890 --> 01:00:25.025
sitting on top of his desk.

01:00:25.826 --> 01:00:28.061
And then, nighttime.

01:00:29.997 --> 01:00:34.034
We could hear the door open
in the dorm...

01:00:34.735 --> 01:00:38.739
...and Clark
would pick a student.

01:00:39.907 --> 01:00:41.150
Go into his room and...

01:00:41.174 --> 01:00:46.146
We never knew, at first,
what was going on.

01:00:47.280 --> 01:00:49.158
He was grooming...

01:00:49.182 --> 01:00:51.160
grooming us...

01:00:51.184 --> 01:00:54.030
and...

01:00:54.054 --> 01:00:57.133
I don't know how many boys
in that dorm

01:00:57.157 --> 01:00:59.335
were being taken into his room,

01:00:59.359 --> 01:01:04.297
but I found myself being picked
and taken to that room.

01:01:04.998 --> 01:01:08.377
And he would turn that TV up.

01:01:08.401 --> 01:01:12.239
Literally, turn it up, crank it.

01:01:16.844 --> 01:01:19.188
And that happened...

01:01:19.212 --> 01:01:24.928
until I left that school...

01:01:24.952 --> 01:01:25.962
not realizing

01:01:25.986 --> 01:01:26.930
that other boys

01:01:26.954 --> 01:01:29.933
were getting the same...

01:01:29.957 --> 01:01:31.801
the same abuse.

01:01:31.825 --> 01:01:34.103
And...

01:01:34.127 --> 01:01:37.064
-I've got to drink.
-Yeah.

01:01:49.376 --> 01:01:51.354
The more the...

01:01:51.378 --> 01:01:56.092
abuse started happening to me...

01:01:56.116 --> 01:01:58.327
the more I started to withdraw.

01:01:58.351 --> 01:02:01.021
So, grade five was a blur.

01:02:01.855 --> 01:02:05.702
Grade six was...

01:02:05.726 --> 01:02:07.904
an even worse year for me.

01:02:07.928 --> 01:02:08.304
[Ecko] Mm-hmm.

01:02:08.328 --> 01:02:11.875
Dad showed up
at the end of the school year,

01:02:11.899 --> 01:02:15.845
and he goes,
"I'm taking the kids away.

01:02:15.869 --> 01:02:18.371
I'm moving you to Seattle."

01:02:19.406 --> 01:02:21.918
Seattle?

01:02:21.942 --> 01:02:25.154
I guess Dad...

01:02:25.178 --> 01:02:28.248
gave our address to Derek Clark.

01:02:29.282 --> 01:02:32.862
So, for two more years,
I was living in Seattle,

01:02:32.886 --> 01:02:35.188
and he was still abusing me.

01:02:39.192 --> 01:02:41.370
You know,
I thought, as a teenager,

01:02:41.394 --> 01:02:44.273
that...

01:02:44.297 --> 01:02:45.274
that would stop,

01:02:45.298 --> 01:02:47.267
and it didn't.

01:02:53.473 --> 01:02:59.179
[♪♪♪]

01:03:02.349 --> 01:03:07.030
[♪♪♪]

01:03:07.054 --> 01:03:11.424
[singing]

01:03:13.060 --> 01:03:14.771
♪ Hope and persistence ♪

01:03:14.795 --> 01:03:15.772
♪ Guidance provided ♪

01:03:15.796 --> 01:03:18.041
♪ Though at first
we might resist it ♪

01:03:18.065 --> 01:03:19.342
♪ Gifted with vision ♪

01:03:19.366 --> 01:03:20.443
♪ On a mission ♪

01:03:20.467 --> 01:03:21.811
♪ Reconciliation ♪

01:03:21.835 --> 01:03:23.179
♪ Peace between our Nations ♪

01:03:23.203 --> 01:03:25.348
♪ Connection to the Land
and ourselves ♪

01:03:25.372 --> 01:03:27.216
♪ Is the final destination ♪

01:03:27.240 --> 01:03:29.285
♪ There's a dark history
we hold ♪

01:03:29.309 --> 01:03:31.387
♪ The children
of our Grandparents ♪

01:03:31.411 --> 01:03:32.455
♪ Ripped from their homes ♪

01:03:32.479 --> 01:03:36.125
♪ Whipped on the wrist
for speaking their language ♪

01:03:36.149 --> 01:03:37.360
♪ Cage and stone structures ♪

01:03:37.384 --> 01:03:40.163
♪ Forced to pray
to the priests who rape them ♪

01:03:40.187 --> 01:03:42.065
♪ Thrown a colonial name ♪

01:03:42.089 --> 01:03:44.100
♪ Raised with hatred
for the system ♪

01:03:44.124 --> 01:03:47.070
♪ Mom and Dad
were provided firewater ♪

01:03:47.094 --> 01:03:49.830
♪ And the culture faded ♪

01:03:52.099 --> 01:03:57.270
[♪♪♪]

01:03:57.838 --> 01:04:01.084
♪ Broken homes
not broken spirits ♪

01:04:01.108 --> 01:04:04.353
♪ We are the resistance ♪

01:04:04.377 --> 01:04:06.022
[♪♪♪]

01:04:06.046 --> 01:04:10.493
♪ Lost but not wandering far ♪

01:04:10.518 --> 01:04:14.097
[Terry] So, when I came out
of the treatment centre,

01:04:14.121 --> 01:04:15.098
and right away,

01:04:15.122 --> 01:04:16.966
I knew
we had a family therapist,

01:04:16.990 --> 01:04:18.501
and I went knocking
on her door.

01:04:18.526 --> 01:04:23.172
On that day
that I went to see her,

01:04:23.196 --> 01:04:25.975
all social workers,
up and down BC,

01:04:25.999 --> 01:04:31.515
received a memo
from two RCMP investigators.

01:04:31.539 --> 01:04:32.481
And on the top it said,

01:04:32.506 --> 01:04:36.019
"Please,
somebody must know somebody

01:04:36.043 --> 01:04:39.388
to disclose about Derek Clark.

01:04:39.412 --> 01:04:41.625
He's still abusing kids
in Vancouver,

01:04:41.649 --> 01:04:44.451
as well as abusing Elders."

01:04:45.553 --> 01:04:47.263
I look at that memo,

01:04:47.287 --> 01:04:50.991
and I read it, and I said,
"Call them. Let's do it."

01:04:51.892 --> 01:04:54.538
And so, we called them,

01:04:54.562 --> 01:04:57.306
and they were so grateful.

01:04:57.330 --> 01:05:00.309
They said,
"We'll be up tomorrow.

01:05:00.333 --> 01:05:04.413
Get ready to share
your painful experiences,

01:05:04.437 --> 01:05:08.518
and we'll be
as compassionate as possible.

01:05:08.542 --> 01:05:10.654
If you want your therapist
to be with you,

01:05:10.678 --> 01:05:12.656
she can be with you."

01:05:12.680 --> 01:05:15.616
I said, "No, I can do it."

01:05:17.585 --> 01:05:23.090
I was in there hours, hours,
and I had them in tears.

01:05:23.456 --> 01:05:27.504
The grief and the hurt
and all those memories

01:05:27.528 --> 01:05:30.039
just came...

01:05:30.063 --> 01:05:33.433
came to the surface
again and again.

01:05:35.168 --> 01:05:36.913
And so, that was done.

01:05:36.937 --> 01:05:40.383
And lo and behold...

01:05:40.407 --> 01:05:43.920
the social worker
from the tribal council

01:05:43.944 --> 01:05:45.454
approaches me and he goes,

01:05:45.478 --> 01:05:47.557
"What do you say we sue
the federal government

01:05:47.581 --> 01:05:52.461
and the Anglican Church
and the RCMP and all of that?"

01:05:52.485 --> 01:05:54.254
"Let's do it!"

01:05:55.523 --> 01:05:57.466
I was like, "Can we do that?"

01:05:57.490 --> 01:05:59.335
And he goes, "Yeah!"

01:05:59.359 --> 01:06:00.604
Anyway, so...

01:06:00.628 --> 01:06:06.299
we had Elders sitting outside
the courtroom, blessing us.

01:06:07.601 --> 01:06:09.045
Prayers every day

01:06:09.069 --> 01:06:11.471
before we went
into the courtroom.

01:06:17.711 --> 01:06:20.289
The government lawyers

01:06:20.313 --> 01:06:21.357
had the gumption

01:06:21.381 --> 01:06:24.618
to come to our home
in Stein Valley.

01:06:26.053 --> 01:06:28.589
Knocking on the door
in their suits.

01:06:29.289 --> 01:06:32.035
And they said,

01:06:32.059 --> 01:06:33.402
"Sorry to bother you...

01:06:33.426 --> 01:06:34.437
but...

01:06:34.461 --> 01:06:35.539
we want to settle this

01:06:35.563 --> 01:06:38.542
out of the court with you
right now."

01:06:38.566 --> 01:06:41.277
They put up a cheque
in front of my face--

01:06:41.301 --> 01:06:43.470
half a million dollars.

01:06:44.137 --> 01:06:45.982
I said, "Wow!

01:06:46.006 --> 01:06:48.051
Ah, shit, that's...

01:06:48.075 --> 01:06:49.710
That's big.

01:06:50.544 --> 01:06:52.989
Uh, man...

01:06:53.013 --> 01:06:55.258
my lawyer's
going to be really happy

01:06:55.282 --> 01:06:55.659
when I call him

01:06:55.683 --> 01:07:01.998
and say you came to my home
and tried to buy me out,

01:07:02.022 --> 01:07:03.299
you stupid asshole."

01:07:03.323 --> 01:07:04.333
Ripped it,

01:07:04.357 --> 01:07:05.535
threw it in their face.

01:07:05.559 --> 01:07:07.504
"Get the fuck out of here."

01:07:07.528 --> 01:07:10.397
And slammed the door.

01:07:12.165 --> 01:07:14.077
So...

01:07:14.101 --> 01:07:18.782
May 31st...

01:07:18.806 --> 01:07:20.808
2003.

01:07:23.043 --> 01:07:26.289
Judge...

01:07:26.313 --> 01:07:27.715
"Mr. Aleck."

01:07:28.749 --> 01:07:30.751
"Yes, Your Honour?"

01:07:31.652 --> 01:07:32.696
"We're bearing witness

01:07:32.720 --> 01:07:37.466
to a precedent-setting
court case

01:07:37.490 --> 01:07:38.602
that's going to be a model

01:07:38.626 --> 01:07:43.196
for other residential school
survivors across Canada.

01:07:44.565 --> 01:07:50.346
People are going to know
about this court case

01:07:50.370 --> 01:07:54.150
because there are
other cases pending,

01:07:54.174 --> 01:07:55.652
and...

01:07:55.676 --> 01:07:59.455
yours is going to be
precedent-setting.

01:07:59.479 --> 01:08:01.414
You won."

01:08:04.384 --> 01:08:05.795
"Your Honour?"

01:08:05.819 --> 01:08:07.721
"You won.

01:08:08.255 --> 01:08:12.192
Is there anything else
you want from the court?"

01:08:12.826 --> 01:08:15.204
"Your Honour,

01:08:15.228 --> 01:08:18.675
I would love an apology letter

01:08:18.699 --> 01:08:21.277
from the Prime Minister
of Canada.

01:08:21.301 --> 01:08:25.472
If you can do that,
then we're good."

01:08:26.874 --> 01:08:31.755
"Apology letter
from Prime Minister of Canada.

01:08:31.779 --> 01:08:33.514
Done."

01:08:35.115 --> 01:08:36.650
[exhales]

01:08:37.651 --> 01:08:40.263
Wow...

01:08:40.287 --> 01:08:41.889
Wow.

01:08:43.857 --> 01:08:46.193
We did it.

01:08:47.194 --> 01:08:49.329
I get it now.

01:08:55.335 --> 01:08:58.247
Both you and Mom...

01:08:58.271 --> 01:08:59.749
literally did whatever it took

01:08:59.773 --> 01:09:01.518
to get to the end
of that court case,

01:09:01.542 --> 01:09:04.177
and then our family fell apart.

01:09:09.683 --> 01:09:16.700
I want to thank you
for the strength that you used

01:09:16.724 --> 01:09:20.704
to do everything you could
to create a safe home.

01:09:20.728 --> 01:09:22.539
It wasn't safe from anger,

01:09:22.563 --> 01:09:24.808
but it was safe
from drugs and alcohol

01:09:24.832 --> 01:09:30.771
and all of the other things
that you experienced.

01:09:31.872 --> 01:09:36.419
So, thank you for doing
what you could

01:09:36.443 --> 01:09:38.345
with what you had.

01:09:40.714 --> 01:09:43.693
You crawled,

01:09:43.717 --> 01:09:45.294
so I could walk,

01:09:45.318 --> 01:09:48.288
so my children can now run.

01:09:56.930 --> 01:10:00.577
I'm grateful to see
the whole picture

01:10:00.601 --> 01:10:03.403
and to walk through the timeline
with you.

01:10:04.471 --> 01:10:07.283
And...

01:10:07.307 --> 01:10:09.285
to...

01:10:09.309 --> 01:10:10.920
co-create these opportunities

01:10:10.944 --> 01:10:12.922
to keep sharing your story,

01:10:12.946 --> 01:10:16.425
because there is
layers and layers

01:10:16.449 --> 01:10:18.294
and generations of healing

01:10:18.318 --> 01:10:21.497
that are happening every time
we get to sit down and do this.

01:10:21.522 --> 01:10:22.899
[Terry] Mm-hmm.

01:10:22.923 --> 01:10:24.324
Yeah.

01:10:30.230 --> 01:10:33.901
[singing a traditional song]

01:10:36.970 --> 01:10:40.340
[drumming and singing]

01:10:47.748 --> 01:10:51.284
[drumming and singing]

01:10:59.993 --> 01:11:02.563
[drumming and singing]

01:11:10.303 --> 01:11:11.615
-Okay.
-Mm-hmm.

01:11:11.639 --> 01:11:14.642
Yeah, we can just rest it down.

01:11:17.945 --> 01:11:19.889
How big are you thinking?

01:11:19.913 --> 01:11:20.957
Yup.

01:11:20.981 --> 01:11:22.025
That space?

01:11:22.049 --> 01:11:24.484
That's a good size.

01:11:26.053 --> 01:11:28.264
-Um...
-Mm-hmm.

01:11:28.288 --> 01:11:29.799
I've been learning...

01:11:29.823 --> 01:11:31.668
and leaning into trusting.

01:11:31.692 --> 01:11:32.001
Mm-hmm...

01:11:32.025 --> 01:11:34.662
My process as an artist
is very, very different.

01:11:35.829 --> 01:11:38.775
Quite often, at this point,

01:11:38.799 --> 01:11:42.546
I can see the design already
on your skin,

01:11:42.570 --> 01:11:44.280
and it's almost like my job

01:11:44.304 --> 01:11:46.816
is to just help
breathe life into it.

01:11:46.840 --> 01:11:48.709
[Terry] Thank you.

01:11:53.313 --> 01:11:54.791
It seems really appropriate

01:11:54.815 --> 01:11:56.292
to do this

01:11:56.316 --> 01:11:58.294
in front of a camera,

01:11:58.318 --> 01:11:59.362
in front of people

01:11:59.386 --> 01:12:00.429
that are capturing

01:12:00.453 --> 01:12:02.756
our life story and our journey.

01:12:06.459 --> 01:12:07.504
I appreciate it.

01:12:07.528 --> 01:12:15.444
It just makes it
that much more rich...

01:12:15.468 --> 01:12:18.338
to be tattooed
by my own daughter.

01:13:14.562 --> 01:13:17.674
I can't even imagine
what you went through.

01:13:17.698 --> 01:13:20.510
-[Ecko laughs]
-[Terry] Wow.

01:13:20.534 --> 01:13:21.978
[Ecko] It was, um...

01:13:22.002 --> 01:13:23.513
[Terry] Painful.

01:13:23.537 --> 01:13:25.806
[Ecko] Yeah.

01:13:41.989 --> 01:13:44.758
[speaking Nlaka'pamux]

01:13:46.927 --> 01:13:49.939
For the spirituality
of all people

01:13:49.963 --> 01:13:51.808
from all walks of life.

01:13:51.832 --> 01:13:58.872
To wake up to our own power
and strength from within.

01:14:03.544 --> 01:14:07.147
Thank you
for a strong, beating heart.

01:14:08.215 --> 01:14:11.719
Eyes to see the good
in all people.

01:14:11.919 --> 01:14:15.923
Ears to hear the messages
from our Ancestors.

01:14:18.592 --> 01:14:21.629
Mouth to speak only good words.

01:14:23.564 --> 01:14:26.810
Creator...

01:14:26.834 --> 01:14:30.571
we thank you for all life.

01:14:32.740 --> 01:14:33.149
The tiniest animal

01:14:33.173 --> 01:14:39.246
that crawls to the spirits
we can't see sometimes.

01:14:42.049 --> 01:14:43.059
For all the food

01:14:43.083 --> 01:14:45.862
that comes from you,
Sacred Mother Earth.

01:14:45.886 --> 01:14:48.255
We thank you.

01:14:49.757 --> 01:14:53.169
We thank you
for all of the plant medicine,

01:14:53.193 --> 01:14:55.772
all the fruits,
all the vegetables--

01:14:55.796 --> 01:14:57.565
all of it.

01:14:58.899 --> 01:15:01.969
Creator,
you've gifted us so much.

01:15:03.771 --> 01:15:04.548
I hope and pray

01:15:04.572 --> 01:15:06.482
that we continually thank you

01:15:06.507 --> 01:15:08.585
for...

01:15:08.609 --> 01:15:09.753
all that we have,

01:15:09.777 --> 01:15:11.712
all that we are.

01:15:13.080 --> 01:15:15.649
[speaking Nlaka'pamux]

01:15:18.986 --> 01:15:22.623
[drumming and singing]

01:15:38.906 --> 01:15:41.675
[drumming and singing]

01:15:47.681 --> 01:15:48.892
[Chief Wayne Christian]
We're at a time

01:15:48.916 --> 01:15:50.994
where there's
a fast-moving river

01:15:51.018 --> 01:15:52.562
happening right now,

01:15:52.586 --> 01:15:54.531
very fast.

01:15:54.555 --> 01:15:56.666
We're afraid to get into it,

01:15:56.690 --> 01:15:58.167
but that's what we need to do.

01:15:58.191 --> 01:15:59.936
We need to let go

01:15:59.960 --> 01:16:01.895
and go into that river.

01:16:06.700 --> 01:16:07.944
And as that river is moving,

01:16:07.968 --> 01:16:11.104
we look around us
and see who is with us.

01:16:12.840 --> 01:16:13.917
It is no longer about

01:16:13.941 --> 01:16:16.553
being a lone wolf
doing things on our own.

01:16:16.577 --> 01:16:19.079
We have to do it together.

01:16:22.983 --> 01:16:23.727
[Calvin] If the young ones

01:16:23.751 --> 01:16:27.196
are paddling on the water
in their journey,

01:16:27.220 --> 01:16:30.099
they should listen
for those songs.

01:16:30.123 --> 01:16:35.872
Those songs will come in
off the breeze of the ocean.

01:16:35.896 --> 01:16:36.573
Those songs will come off

01:16:36.597 --> 01:16:40.668
through whispering winds
that come through the trees.

01:16:42.836 --> 01:16:45.873
It's a journey
of going back into time.

01:16:52.880 --> 01:16:56.826
[Barbara] Mother Earth,
we're nothing without Her,

01:16:56.850 --> 01:17:02.098
and we have done a pitiful job
of looking after Her.

01:17:02.122 --> 01:17:05.859
We need to quit
pulling Her apart.

01:17:07.628 --> 01:17:13.166
We're lucky that Her heart
is so big and full of love.

01:17:14.935 --> 01:17:16.312
It's every person's job

01:17:16.336 --> 01:17:20.808
to do the best they can
all the time.

01:18:06.319 --> 01:18:08.121
Here's another one for you.

01:18:10.290 --> 01:18:10.900
Clean that.

01:18:10.924 --> 01:18:13.703
I'll be
your cleaning assistant here.

01:18:13.727 --> 01:18:14.928
Good!

01:18:26.974 --> 01:18:27.817
Right?

01:18:27.841 --> 01:18:31.478
[woman] It's very satisfying
to wipe the...

01:18:35.282 --> 01:18:37.050
[woman] It's shiny.

01:18:38.886 --> 01:18:40.453
Wiping the winter off.

01:18:41.021 --> 01:18:42.098
The brushing continues.

01:18:42.122 --> 01:18:43.066
[Alfonso] We came together

01:18:43.090 --> 01:18:45.969
to do a cleaning
and a cleansing,

01:18:45.993 --> 01:18:46.836
making that connection

01:18:46.860 --> 01:18:50.406
before we go on
in the next season here.

01:18:50.430 --> 01:18:53.342
[woman] It's very satisfying
to wipe the marks off.

01:18:53.366 --> 01:18:56.737
[Alfonso] To bring them
out into the water.

01:19:08.281 --> 01:19:10.927
[Alfonso] Yeah. Even though
they're still resting,

01:19:10.951 --> 01:19:12.996
we're still
taking good care of them

01:19:13.020 --> 01:19:16.089
until we awaken them
and put them out on the water.

01:19:21.829 --> 01:19:25.766
[Liz] Thank you
for allowing us to witness.

01:19:39.446 --> 01:19:44.284
[♪♪♪]

01:19:50.991 --> 01:19:54.862
[♪♪♪]

01:20:06.540 --> 01:20:08.051
Okay, I'll put this away,

01:20:08.075 --> 01:20:10.253
and I'll go around
the other side over there

01:20:10.277 --> 01:20:13.947
and make another offering
for another tree.

01:20:22.089 --> 01:20:26.335
[♪♪♪]

01:20:26.359 --> 01:20:29.462
Thank you, Tree.

01:20:36.369 --> 01:20:41.174
[♪♪♪]

01:22:28.949 --> 01:22:33.220
[singing a traditional song]

01:22:42.362 --> 01:22:45.999
[singing and drumming]

01:22:48.736 --> 01:22:51.648
[Hollyann] You know,
traditionally, in the old days,

01:22:51.672 --> 01:22:53.316
any time the canoe would go out,

01:22:53.340 --> 01:22:55.952
they would have
a cleansing like this.

01:22:55.976 --> 01:22:56.419
And they did this

01:22:56.443 --> 01:22:58.955
to put their love
and their feelings

01:22:58.979 --> 01:22:59.623
into that canoe,

01:22:59.647 --> 01:23:02.291
and the smell of the cedar
made them strong

01:23:02.315 --> 01:23:05.285
as they went on their journey
and their paddling.

01:23:09.089 --> 01:23:11.525
[singing]

01:23:23.103 --> 01:23:26.239
[singing and drumming]

01:23:28.709 --> 01:23:31.745
Make it look beautiful!

01:23:32.012 --> 01:23:35.191
S-yewens Ilhems Sila
is sitting there being happy.

01:23:35.215 --> 01:23:36.750
[laughing]

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[singing and drumming]

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[singing and drumming]

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[Alfonso] Welcome, everyone.

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All my friends and relatives.

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Been looking forward
to this day

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of all of us coming together

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to...

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participate and practice

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this teaching

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that came from my dear Elder,

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xwu'p'a'lich,here,

01:24:15.055 --> 01:24:16.690
Barb Higgins.

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Such important teachings

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that we need to pass on
to the next generation,

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and keep it alive,

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because these canoes

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go as far back
as our own Ancestors.

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I want to acknowledge
our Ancestors,

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our identity in who we are.

01:24:36.710 --> 01:24:38.712
Being proud of that.

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Acknowledge
our knowledge keepers,

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who are able
to pass down the knowledge.

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Acknowledge our loved ones,

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who are always there
to support each other.

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Our children, our Elders,
everyone.

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Very honoured today

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that I was able to stand here

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and sing with my Grandfather,

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hiwusCalvin Craigan,

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to sing a song with him.

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And I wouldn't be here
without getting my drum,

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becoming a song carrier.

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So, thank you, Papa.

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With these teachings
passed down from my Elders,

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my goal is to create
a canoe family

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to get our Nation members

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to become experienced paddlers,

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so we can continue
to bring the canoes out

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and travel our inlet.

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It's a big dream...

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but I'm going to make it happen.

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[cheering]

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[♪♪♪]

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[drumming]

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[drumming]

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[Ecko] In the background,

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we hear my Aunties'
and Grandmothers'

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and your Aunties'
and Grandmothers' laughter,

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with words of encouragement
and kindness.

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[drumming and singing]

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You are embraced,

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nurtured,

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supported with

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thousands of Ancestors
at your back,

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known and unknown,

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guiding you on your path.

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[♪♪♪]

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[♪♪♪]

01:28:07.454 --> 01:28:12.359
[♪♪♪]

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[♪♪♪]

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[singing]

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♪ Hope and persistence ♪

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♪ Guidance provided ♪

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♪ Though at first
we might resist it ♪

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♪ Gifted with vision ♪

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♪ On a mission ♪

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♪ Reconciliation ♪

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♪ Peace between our Nations ♪

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♪ Connection to the Land
and ourselves ♪

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♪ Is the final destination ♪

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♪ There's a dark history
we hold ♪

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♪ The children
of our Grandparents ♪

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♪ Ripped from their homes ♪

01:28:54.868 --> 01:28:58.481
♪ Whipped on the wrist
for speaking their language ♪

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♪ Cage and stone structures ♪

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♪ Forced to pray
to the priests who rape them ♪

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♪ Thrown a colonial name ♪

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♪ Raised with hatred
for the system ♪

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♪ Mom and Dad
were provided firewater ♪

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♪ And the culture faded ♪

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♪ Faded... ♪

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♪ We're lost
but not wandering far ♪

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♪ Broken homes
not broken spirits ♪

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♪ We are the resistance ♪

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♪ We're lost
but not wandering far ♪

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♪ Broken homes
not broken spirits ♪

01:29:36.143 --> 01:29:40.047
♪ We are the resistance ♪

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♪ Generations of Natives
lost a language of the Land ♪

01:29:44.384 --> 01:29:45.061
♪ Rebranded ♪

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♪ And banned to reservations ♪

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♪ Put poison in our bodies ♪

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♪ And watch us lose our minds ♪

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♪ Many young ones
lost their lives ♪

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♪ Inside ♪

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♪ The place ♪

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♪ They said would teach us
to read and write ♪

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♪ The ones who survived
grew into broken adults ♪

01:29:58.932 --> 01:30:02.512
♪ Unable to cope
with everyday life ♪

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♪ Unable to parent ♪

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♪ From the gap
left inside them ♪

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♪ Endangered and angered ♪

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♪ Little did they know ♪

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♪ They were raising
a new generation ♪

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♪ Of babies
born to be warriors ♪

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♪ Protectors
and culture-connectors ♪

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Okay.

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What are we doing?

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-Group hug.
-Group hug.

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We did it!

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-Yeah!
-We did it!

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-We did it, we did it!
-Oh, my god.

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What a journey!

01:30:40.007 --> 01:30:41.642
Holy crow.

01:30:42.042 --> 01:30:44.420
I'm going to laugh and cry now.

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Now what do we do?

01:30:45.979 --> 01:30:46.623
God!

01:30:46.647 --> 01:30:48.716
Oh, my god.
What's next?

01:30:49.617 --> 01:30:51.184
I like that we're here.

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The dream team.

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Hi!

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[laughing]

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Now come the tired giggles.

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We don't want it to end!

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We don't want it to be over.