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Birchbark Scrolls and Life’s Purpose with Jesse Cree

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Interview · North Dakota · Jesse Cree · NDNAEU 7

Themes: Kinship & family, Storytelling & oral tradition, Education & learning, Spirituality & ceremony, Culture & continuity, Children & young people, Intergenerational learning

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Learn About questions

What are birchbark scrolls? Why is important to understand one’s purpose in life? How does culture guide life’s purpose?

Learn From questions

How do my family or my teachers help to support me through challenges? Who are the people in my life who teach me about expectations and spirituality? What does success mean to me? What things do I need to accomplish in life in order to be successful?

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Birchbark Scrolls and Life’s Purpose with Jesse Cree NDNAEU 7

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Well you have to understand that now it’s it is a different time no it’s a very different time all my kids and a couple of my boys have passed away I only have two girls now but I mean in my family I still have grants and granddaughters but in my family after understand it’s a different time and these people nowadays even in my time I was one of the exceptions I was not the norm no I was one of the exceptions who learned these things who learned all the spiritual things I even do what they call a chief saikhan and that’s a shake intent and shake intent is well known all over the place and that’s one of the things I do I was given four things from the Matt de Matteo organization they called that matiee we wind the ground medicine watch okay when I was a baby I was given four things and my grandmother and my mother and they’re all apart of that society but there are many different societies that I’m a part of it I know I’m not a part of the midday we win but I was given a blessing from the matei we went a long time ago when I was one year old and I do have the scrolls to prove it I got birch bark scrolls and there was birch bark scrolls are one year younger than me so I do have that I do have those and my mother did learn me about it and learn about a story that goes along with it and the four things that I was given to be in my life but anyway I accomplished those four things in my life so

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