Walk the Good Road of the Ancestors with JT Shining Oneside

I have three uncles and I just listened to one of my relatives talk about his dad who’s a brother to my dad my dad is Isaac Belgard a blue sky man and his brother Charlie belgard and then the other brother is Johnny bellegarde and this were the been all three of them they would learn this from their mother Josephine demurs bellegarde who’s my grandmother my paternal grandmother they lived the life that in order to make money there’s two ways you earn it yourself and you keep it and so that’s something that my grandmother she was Josephine she was a midwife at home and she raised eight children by herself in the early 2030s and 40s and she did it on land and she fought for everything that she wanted for her children and her family it’s really sad you know that she had to do that but I think about her huh mo beginnings and how she learned from the land you know learned about the medicines and she also brought children into this world babies and she helped a lot of families and in that way she would get you know they would give her a cow or they would give her pigs or chickens or whatever they had so she had a lot of ingenuity you know to do a lot of things and she walked to wherever she wanted to go and so I think that is just you know when you look at the native contributions there’s so many I mean I don’t think there’s books that are written on it and you know from pharmaceutical standpoint we have medicines for cancer diabetes stroke the West Nile virus just about anything and everything we have those medicines are our earth mother you know our backyard provides that all to us and so I often tell people that I work with when I talk with them about the medicines I always tell them you know these medicines are going to going to touch you have to learn how to harvest them when to collect them and how to work with them and they’ll give your spirit their spirit to you to help you but that’s something that you have to work with and it’s the same thing that I learned you know from my mother and my father and my grandfather before me is that if there’s something that you want then you need to work for that because things aren’t going to come to you so you know a nice thing about education today you know I know that’s been talked about but we need to use what is given to us today you know to help our people you know to become to be able to walk you know that good road of our ancestors that our ancestors walked