Interview · North Dakota · Gerald Packineau · NDNAEU 7
Themes: Kinship & family, Identity & belonging, Education & learning, Healing & resilience, Spirituality & ceremony, Community & responsibility, Economy & livelihoods, Listening & observation, Self-determination & leadership
Learn About questions
Have I ever gone through something in my life that caused me to become resilient? What was it and how did I get through it?
What are examples of resiliency I have seen in my life?
Learn From questions
What role has education played in my life?
How do politics affect me and my family the most?
How do things like religion, education, economics and politics impact me and my relationships to others?
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NDNAEU 7 "Religion, Education, Economics, Politics & Spirituality" with Gerald Packineau
Watch this interview on YouTubeIf you really look at it we’re a hundred percent Christianize now and we’re a hundred percent educated we are economics are down here and you wonder why well we got to be part more of the world or more of the legislature more of the politics what you say be talking tomorrow but economics right here like 35 maybe 45 percent if our economics were up here our reservations would be better jobs job security you know places of business we’re struggle we must manage money as we’ve been taught look at the government we are taught by the way are taught by you know I mean we become that person you know with the economic now politics we’re at 25 percent because if we were politically motivated they would be listening to the house and the state in the Senate office of who we are know dapple and all this other stuff would never happened right because we have lobbyist lobbying for us for our rights now with the other part that plays we’re only at 15 to 20 percent of voting look at that scales like this if you don’t vote call you spoke to your voice to be heard and you look at that you don’t even vote for your own experiments and stuff at that’s the other aspect so we need to bring this back up we need to be involved in our community we need to say these things because that’s what society says we are at that’s the civil world as you would see but if you are right where you’re at as an individual then you’re growing you can still mentor but I believe that’s part of our you know being civilized as you would say being a part of the world as they would say but as individuals in our spirituality that’s really in tacky think about it after all these years trying to rid us of our ways and all these Christianize us and educate us where we at we’re back to square one we’re back to where we’re starting from and it starts over here with you guys and you say hey this I think they have something over there let’s let’s bring that back in and we’re not trying to say oh because these German are using its the spirituality it’s not about race its spirituality that’s what we’re saying it’s not about all because your ear your non-native I’m handy he’s black you know I mean it’s a spirituality and we tend to lose that you can refine the individual become a better man but to make them a warrior you have to bring the spirituality into this concept that’s why we had such great Chiefs such great leaders as I would say you know so we have to refine them but you also have to refine their spirituality to make them whole and complete darksome makes them an identity who they are you’ll know your clan ship you know who your tribe beer from you understand those things because when you ask a non-native you know they said oh who are you and then you say oh I’m from this town you know and then you have to ask always your politics oh I’m over here what church you go to or see all bubbles there are always bubbles in these guys you know but you go to Native America and you say um who are you from oh I’m for a spare leg oh geez I know where you’re from you know and that’s it there’s no politics there no nothing there’s this oh your ear come from a tribe okay
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