I like your videos but we could use more native teachers at the high school back home. You know the real difficult thing to do. Being a native living in our old days is hard to do in these modern times. Like who still gets up with the prayer and ceremony with the sun
This video is up five years and this is the first comment , it takes 3000 hours for an English speaker to learn spanish and 6000 hours of contact to learn russian, so I would think her answer should have been 6000 hours
This is a struggle to listen to. Not that the creation story is bad, the story of The Great Mother (sometimes Father) is a beautiful one that’s incredibly important to hear, know and understand. It’s just the way it’s being taught and told here isn’t very good. Clearly visible that zero preparation was done for this presentation.
I really love this tribute to Jane Johnstone Schoolcraft. This song is going to be a perfect way to introduce college freshman to her achievement. Thank you ... whoever made it. I'd love to hear from you: mkietzma@umich.edu
Also, gichi miigwech to the youth for allowing us in your space. You all remind me of the rez kids in my home community the Fort McDowell Yavapai. They all so humble and quiet 🤣
I don't think that Michif was spoken in Ontario except for a little bit in the far west. The Sault Saint Marie and Eastern Ontario Metis spoke a kind of French, didn't they?
I really want to thank you for posting these classroom-based tobacco offerings. A lot of the other materials I have looked at as a Settler teacher have been, well, seeming like they're easy to "get wrong", if you will (universities with pages upon pages of protocol. for example). I think what you have shown here really illustrates the spirit of sharing behind what I understand is the purpose of Elders and Knowledge Keepers doing what they do.
Migwetch! I cannot got out to meet the elders for teachings during the pandemic. You have given me a beautifulf way of still being able to learn but in an alternative way.
to bad theese great "METIS" Communities didnt attack the "Canadiens " from the back while they killed our families as we fought and spilled blood with First Nation people on prairies ...there is a defined Metis Nation map ....maybe your somthing out there but it ain't Metis Nation....
I’m Son of Jacob! My people I am here! Rejoice! Your new leader is here and what I can promise the pandemic will stop when she the land will be at her rightful husband! And the suffering will stop! Seek your creator it’s a fight you won’t have to do alone! But who will share and stand up and say! He’s here! Who would shout for joy! My people your only prolonging this! Look towards the grandfathers and grandmothers our ancestors! Have you forgotten a promised coming?
You posted this comment three years ago, and I agree one hundred percent. I use other "fillers" including umm, and one Aanishinaabe word "na?" lol. thanks for the feedback.
Yes Bungee as my great grandfather spoke being scottish/Metis and Celtic based dialect. There are more than one and each community across Canada will have more French influence or for example Northern Alberta more cree influence
