Growing Up Michif with Debbe Poitra

I believe in that because I grew up with my paternal grandmother like I said and she was a great storyteller and she had a lot of stories that she told and she also told some of those stories through song so she was very musical and growing up on the reservation we have actually two cultures where we have the Chippewa culture and we also have the mich of culture and I grew up predomitly in the mich of culture and so I was I grew up with the jigging and the fiddling and all of that kind of music and you know the mixture of the language which was Chippewa and Cree and French and so it was a combination of all of those different heritage that brought together the midship culture and so that is the way that I grew up and that’s I believe that’s very important I’m not a storyteller I wish that I were but I have known some great storytellers in my time and it was a good way to be able to talk about traditions it was a good way to talk about folk lore and to be able to express just the values of life through storytelling and so I think that it is important