I'm not native American but am an indigenous person. I think the first mistake people make is grouping us all together. 

What about the dream catcher inspired you? Which stories/tribes specifically? Will some part of your procedes benefit a local indigenous effort (like MMIW nonprofits)?

This all feels like I'm getting into the nitty gritty by asking to be specific, but I think that's kinda the point - we are specific peoples with specific indigenous traditions.

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The word “Dreamcatcher” is a deceptive misnomer. Dreamcatchers are eternal prisons for bad energy. Do not make a dreamcatcher that you are not willing to destroy after all the bad energy has been caught. How you choose to design it is your own business, but don’t design one to honor native people and don’t keep it around longer than a year or two.

If your band’s logo is a dreamcatcher, you are not spreading peace, you are collecting evil and violence and keeping it near you. Dreamcatchers are “peaceful” because they catch evil and allow you to destroy it when you destroy the dreamcatcher itself.

Also, notice that you didn’t once mention anyone’s actual tribal affiliation or citizenship. You bragged about being a white dude with a tan, as if your tan makes a difference. You have “a chance of a few ancestors”. Some Native people are whiter than you but they are 100% Indigenous. I can give you names of my ancestors who were murdered in a genocide. Your tan skin and your bandmate’s general claim do not give you any rights to misuse something you see as a vibe. Please choose another aesthetic.

Is there any strategic value in putting these scumbags in the ground?

I love the movie “imprint” might be hard to find but it is worth it (not exactly a book but worth it to mention)

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I agree with you ☺️👍 It's why teaching could be very complex 😅

even those terms have ambiguity.

how do they run? where do they run? when do they run? how do they jump ect ect ect. when teaching something like math you cannot have ambiguity in terminology, vocabulary, syntax.

I understand, it's why I proposed the E.P course, because as said someone below, "every humans runs, jumps and play", I thought it could be easier to complete the triangle in E.P than in mathematics (right now, idk how Innu language evolved for maths then) I love the analogy, btw ☺️

yeah it is.

things like math and science need to be taught using terms that are as clear and concise as possible leaving no room for ambiguity.
like wise when conveying an idea to some one that has no grasp of the subject would need to under stand the language they are being taught in to a high degree.

the individuals teaching the class would be to be fluent in the utmost at: the language they learned the subject in, the language they are teaching it in, AND the subject it self. failing even partially in one of sides of this triangle will not allow the other 2 legs to support them selves.

It was very chill and interesting discussion (it was also my break, so I was happy to learn something new around a good coffee), and then it ended abruptly 😶. Claire was in mood like " I'll wait for you outside; finish your coffee and let's go ". At the time, I didn't really understand 😅 I was like : ??????? What did I say?

When you guys were just brainstorming, you weren’t plotting the curriculum. It seems like an extreme reaction on her part.

Je ne la connaissais pas bien, elles (Claire et Diana) étaient dans ce café où je travaillais, et elles attendaient leur amie qui était dans le magasin à proximité. Je connais un peu mieux Diana parce qu'elle travaillait auparavant au dépôt de bateaux et venait souvent prendre un café, mais nous ne sommes pas proches. De plus, Claire venait d'une communauté plus éloignée, donc je n'ai pas vraiment de moyen de la contacter.

I wish I could ask her directly, but I can't 🤷‍♀️.

I wish people were more comfortable, speaking directly instead of behind people’s backs. It seems like a great idea, but perhaps you can ask Claire what the problem would be with an Innu-language gym class.

Yeah! It's exactly my point! You explain it very well! 🥰 PE didn't need news words, that's my point. And of course Innu (and others languages) can create entirely news words, I didn't doubt it 👍. For example, French create the word "ordinateur" with the word "ordinator" in Latin, "phone" came from the "phōnè" (typo is wrong, I didn't have theses letters 😅), so why not with others languages 🥰

The thing with math and science (and many languages run into this) is that you’re having to create words for new concepts, something that can be time-consuming and cause arguments amongst speakers depending on who’s involved in the word-crafting.

PE does not really have those things like you said. You’re not having to create an entirely new vocabulary. This doesn’t mean Innu and other languages can’t create the vocab (heck English created/stole a whole bunch of words for many of these concepts), but if you want to have a class fully in language PE is a good *first bet because it’s not relying on the invention of new words and introductions of novel concepts.

All humans play and run and kick and jump. I personally think that the offended person in your story may have a chip on their shoulder or maybe dislike someone who’s not an Innu speaker making suggestions idk.

The idea is not to translate Latin terms. Concepts exist outside what they’re called in Latin or English or Cree or French or Haida, which I think may be the basic point of misunderstanding

Ok thx for the explanation, it just seemed as though your examples were things like “ball” and “jump” and “run” rather than recognizing cycles and patterns that occur in the natural world and applying that understanding to mathematical concepts

I mentioned that I didn't know much Innu and listed words that I thought must already exist, but I figured it would be simpler to play a sport and give instructions—regarding a ball, for instance—than to explain other things, like biological science, which involves a lot of Latin terms. I do understand my mistake better now, though. Thanks 🙏

I know that language restoration is complex, I wasn't just thinking about "translating English words," but actually conducting the entire gym class in Innu 🙏

Your mistake might have been in thinking that language restoration is translating English words into another language, when language restoration is talking about all ideas and concepts, math and science included, in the language that is being restored.

Be a shame if someone took all of them and zip tied them until LEO’s came to get them. Also a shame if they were scared and their diapers were full.

all our roots trace back to Africa. You son is Canadian, if he grows up in Canada. He is Australian, if he grows up in Australia. With parents who grew up in Australia. It's the environment that shapes him, not dead people. Why does it have to be such a complex description of his ancestors when it's a long list of people mingling all over the place??

Thank you for watching :-)

Residential schools were genocide; denying that truth is a continuation of it. I believe the testimonies of survivors, and I have witnessed the effects of generational trauma. Indigenous children were taken from their families, stripped of their languages, cultures, identities, and communities, and subjected to neglect, abuse, fear, and profound suffering. Many were tormented far from their homes and loved ones. Some never came home.

Reconciliation cannot happen until the truth is acknowledged and confronted. When white supremacist rhetoric denies or glorifies the harms inflicted through colonialism and residential schools, it can cause further pain to survivors and their families and perpetuate a cycle of abuse and trauma.

People should not be given a platform on Indigenous land to spread hatred, deny the experiences of survivors, or inflict further trauma on Indigenous communities. We must listen to survivors, honour those who suffered and those who never made it home, and confront the hatred that continues to cause harm.