I met this cree woman once, beth pitsor was her name. She had no respect for any other human being, the worst hypocrite that I’ve ever met. She had the monopoly of human suffering and no sympathy for anyone else. I hope I never meet another cree ever again.
Hello from Chisasibi, QC Thank you for sharing .. I used to have a phobia of spiders. Today I have so much respect for them. And even more now as hearing the Cree story of life and the connection to the spiritual realm 🪶
You are right. Bannock is comfort food. You can take it with you, and it is perfect for a snack, or with any meal. Different things can be added to it too, which makes it versatile. It's great to teach kids about baking and cooking. It's a beneficial skill. That bannock looks so good. Cheers! ✌️
I liked that story because in my experience spiders and bears are creatures to be feared and respected. Gaining knowledge/assistance from them is not something I would have really considered which only leads to ignorance. What it must have been like to be in new territory and have the wisdom to respectfully observe the animals to learn their lessons and then put them to practice. If you're the first there, it's so incredibly clever.
fyi: if you think the Creator is the same thing as the whitemans manmade Gods?..you are still colonized..the creator does not have a gender,and the creator has never been formed or manifested like God..
@@thatsMYbeef "Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and Demand that they respect yours." Tecumseh "The Indians were religious from the first moments of life...We were taught generosity to the poor and reverence for the Great Mystery. Religion was the basis of all Indian training." Ohiyesa
@@thatsMYbeef its not the plains religion I don't participate in plains culture I'm a northern hunter. I have my beliefs that are not of the plains natives. So, you call me not one of your type? I care less not participating in wearing bonnets, plains pow wows, and sundances I have my religion i follow, that honors kichi manito in mine own way. My spirituality isn't tied down to another culture that demands I follow them. Nation of Hunters, those who held their own from the Iroquois, Anishinaabe, Sioux, Blackfoot, Inuit, and Dene
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?
I wonder at which era this happened? There is a story of the flood. In the nehiyaw creation story that i heard it actually goes back to the beginning- when there was only ekowa and the mind, humans were created way later.
Wow I'm from Ontario California. Named after Ontario Canada. I wrote this about my town Ontario California Ever since I was four years old...Ontario has been my town, my home. Before this town was even first founded, there was a time when she was nearly surrounded, by grape vineyards for making fine wine. There were orchards where lemons and oranges grew; some tangerine, grapefruit and avocado too. From time to time, it just came and went...that sweet Sunkist scent. An aroma so familiar in the misty morning dew...always a citrus breeze blowing on our way to school. Since the Euclid Trolley Cars and Track, have retired and won't be coming back...The grassy Euclid Center Divide is now lined with roses both far and wide. And the lemon blossoms unique sweet scent, perfumes the warm spring air a hint. The nesting birds sound very very content because nature assures them another seasons free rent. The annual Autumn Santa Ana winds, mark the fall season before winter can begin. Its powerful gusts blow down the fresh pine air, that's almost to crisp for your nose to bare. And who does not enjoy the view of the snow dusted mountain peaks? What an awesome and breathless sight; especially if you catch a glimpse of how they glow in the full moons' light. So the next time these devil winds blow, just remember that they clean up our air; make the sun shine more bright; and from this sometimes dull, sunk-in valley, make all the mountains that surround us, an exclusively rare and beautiful sight. I am still proud to know and proud to show, a city where my family will live and grow, I feel it deep in the heart of my home town ..we call ONTARIO. Copyright by Duke The Fluke writing.com readmreshwless
I am watching this video for a First Nations, Inuit, and Metis course I am taking. Beautiful story. I could listen to you talk for hours. Thank you for sharing this.
My great grandmother was Alice Apetakeshikow. Thank you for sharing this story. I have been researching my family history for a while and have recently started to look deeper into our ancestors past and what it means to be a member of Moose Cree First Nation. I can see I have a long way to go.
Hello Sirs! Greetings from Santa Cruz, California. I really enjoyed this video and am happy your father is keeping traditional storytelling alive. Norm is an active, engaging human! I am currently writing a paper on Moose Cree resilience for a native cultures course and would like to ask for consent to share a little of this knowledge in the paper. Warmly Daniel Davis
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I'm almost certain I'm Cree. How do I check. I've been told my whole life iam. I need to know for sure. If so then I understand why I'm at peace in a certain area in my walk. Thanks if any one can help. Email me please. Jpgirlinghouse@gmail.com
No worse than any other religion/culture. My question always is does the story have value as a metaphor for something helpful for all of humanity, or is it divisive like most other creation stories?
Thank you! I am Chippewa Cree - apart of the stone child Rez. its hard to learn about the history bc I moved around my whole life. if you have any books that could help me learn about tradition I would love to read it.
In Congress, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
