Interview · North Dakota · Violet Smith · NDNAEU 1
Themes: Land & stewardship, Kinship & family, Values & generosity
Learn About questions
What does it mean to respect the living things around us?
How do we show respect to our sacred relatives?
How does respect for the environment around us help us in return to be nourished?
Learn From questions
How did I learn about respect in my life?
What is my connection to the natural environment around me?
How do I interact with the natural world?
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Respect is Most Important with Violet Smith NDNAEU 1
Watch this interview on YouTubeBut the way I was brought up was my grandpa and my grandma would always talk with us talk with her grandchildren and the thing that they but they told us a lot his respect is the first thing that he ever talked about was to have respect and so that’s how we grew up in the family as our respect for everything and so I always did have respect for he said not just relatives but everybody he tell us and so that’s the way I was brought up with and they had a lot of respect for animals you know like the Buffalo the dared horses and he goes I think it was and those are the main things I think that they so that’s what they always told us and all other animals too I can’t think of right now but you know yeah he said he told us that it’s good some of the animals he said it’s her or health to eat he said that’ll nourish our bodies and so we can live on and be wrong all this so that’s the way I was told about animals
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