Dunseith Culture Day, Summer 2023

Let’s take a look at sister squash the squash grows close to the ground providing shade and hold it in moisture unless we grow similar to our family providing a shelter clothing and food to help nourish our body and minds and providing spiritual growth in prayer and in ceremonies as the plants grow and reach Towards the Sky drawn into sun rays and soaking up the rain when it falls can you do the same look in for guidance for the crater of all our family knowledge and traditions just as the corn beans and squash grow together and they grow stronger in relationship to one another so does family grow stronger together parents hoping for their trial their child to grow up ready to take their place in the family community to live a good life with family knowledge and traditions the corn beans and squash work together to thrive and survive just as a family lives to in relationship to each other to work so that they can Thrive and survive research the internet about gardening and for more information on the three sisters family gardening is a great way to teach to learn to share stories learn to talk and communicate with each other time to ask lots of questions and it’s a sure way to feel emotionally well as you see the plants grow from your patients your consistent care watering and weeding and your garden and thoughts and prayers and from the help of your voice and hands when it’s time to harvest give thanks to Mother Earth to a family who helped and provided money for seeds and gardening tools and to share with family who may be less fortunate are incapable to plant a garden [Applause] okay so I’m going to talk about the three sister story When I Was preparing for this presentation I went into prayer and I was talking to the Creator and I was asking for him for help I said I want to present to these students and I want them to remember something that’s real important and so last week when I finally sat down at the computer and I started to type this is what came so the oldest sister remember the older sister porn and the middle sister is Sister Bean youngest sister is Sister squash the corn was grown first sister corn was beautiful with her long dangling leaves and corn silk hair sister corn grew tall and straight reaching High towards the Creator the Creator had a love for sister corn and it would help nourish her roots so she is the oldest sister she’s planted first in the garden then came a few weeks later sister squash pushes through the soil of Mother Earth yapping about the struggle right now right now sorry Jackson one sister corn was two feet tall then sister Bean planted near the quick stock of sister corn and two weeks later Sister Bean emerges through the soil of mother everybody sign this through the soil of Mother Earth tiny and grateful to see the blue sky and the warmth of the sun sister corn welcomes her it is delighted to see sister being and encourages sister Bean to grow and to use my sock to climb up and round together we can help each other as a family does scheduled Mr Baker’s supposed to be his room is this music off the gym okay do you want to take them out okay Mr Banks my stock to climb up and around okay together we can help each other as a family does two beautiful sisters grown side by side each inclined with love and hopes both growing towards the Creator sister corn and sister Bean had a few weeks enjoying each other’s company laughing and playing in the Soft Wind and giggling when the Creator showered them with Divine water they enjoyed each other’s company and were so happy to be sisters a few weeks later Sister squash es through the soil of Mother Earth yapping wow about the struggle to push through the soil sister squash looks around and sees two beautiful entwined plants one so tall and the other climbing along the other sister squash says Buju the other sisters introduce themselves to Sister squash sister corn welcome sister squash and telling sister squash we have been waiting for your arrival sister squash humbled to be welcomed so lovingly sister squash blurted out that she was glad to be among these beautiful sisters as the weeks passed each sister grew stronger alongside each other sister squash bind along the ground with giant leaves and bright yellow flowers sister squashes Vines entwined her two sisters and together the three sisters ruin such strength and in size and in Beauty developing a perfect harmony with each other and in friendship they fell blessed by the Creator to grow together they last and they giggled and flourished in the rain in the sun each sister gave it to the other sister cornstalk became a trellis her sister being declined and sister being captured nitrogen from the air and deposited into the soil along the three sisters homes each of them grow whereas sister squashes huge leaves formed a cupboard around the three sisters that gave shade and held moisture in for three sisters to grow each sister in need of each other just like a family and friends each sharing their gifts from the Creator to strengthen and support each other into the best version of yourself how are you helping yourself to grow into the best version of yourself so when we look at relationships between the three sisters that you try to gift to sheriff and each of you have a gift to share but you have to figure out where what is that again it begins to get up and present to his children showers loving kindness is it a gift to be a good friend to be a good listener plus you’re going to utilize your knowledge you have lots of knowledge up here but you have to you have to listen and if you were to take unscramble the word listen you would get the word silent so in order to gain wisdom you have the science silent yourself in order to hear so when you look at that relationships in your in your circle of friends your family circles you want to see or am I being nourished are they telling me or just sharing lots of love and kindness with me to help me to grow into a kind loving person am I being respected and am I a showering others with respect am I getting the courage to do things that are hard and when I learn and I do great things am I humble of all that and do I share my honesty when I am wrong and in all of those teachings is truth for yourself truth to live a good life so remember your relationships are entwined and if you’re around good positive people and in friends and in family you’re going to be nourished to grow up to be a good person to be a good neighbor could it be somebody who would want some love and kindness so remember you have the power here you’re mine you can have a better brighter mind to remember that you have that strength and you have a great gift utilize it utilize it to share yourself in a good positive way oh yeah are they gonna be time to buzzing us

I’m traveling okay any more questions but uh I brought a few things and we used to use the biggest thing I used to use when I was growing up was this no matter what this is wired yeah what do you use that wire for snaring I used to be doing a lot of snaring rabbits because back in the 30s my Grandpa Frank was issued shotgun shells issued rifle shelves he couldn’t just go in the store and buy them so they had to figure out ways how to haunt and catch this game without shells and the other thing we did in half back then was a rifle that could shoot a thousand yards they’re all open sides you had to be good shots so we did snaring I used to use these for rabbits and then when I got older I just told my dad and at least use brake cables to snare gear how many crazy wild game huh anybody in your hunt Wild game you eat well again here um so we used this is one of the thing everything we used to do a lot of was trap like muskrat and beaver coyote for supplementing our income that’s my parents incomes were growing up but we still also used to my scrap in the beaver not the coyote how many guys know what debris is try to egg cheese they made all the cheeses how about blood sausage these are all things that we took from the animals like beef would give you the difference Pig would give you veggies and blood sausage so if you couldn’t get enough hunting because back in the 50s and 60s deer weren’t like they are today that’s why we stopped a snare it’s like rabbits now you don’t see rabbits but you can spare them let me guys want to cook in there don’t tell me ramen noodles thank you so you have to Panda does anybody know when you’re cooking a roast what’s the inside of that temperature I was gonna get before stuff 160.There’s ways out there you have to talk to people how many of you guys open up to somebody you got a friend you need to find somebody you can talk to I’m like I work in Bellport and I got an office and I have kids this year I think I got two and I like to slam go in my office and shut the door they just need time it’s about an hour and it don’t help when you got staff members they’ll jump up their little because I got a daughter that’s got anxiety so I know the effects of that stuff I got anxiety I mean it’s almost like a sense of dude that you get money you can do again educate yourself on that and you guys got phones Google ooh on her see what I got a phone I fight technology don’t find it I do I don’t understand man you’re just too old I need to learn to get a hold of Technology better you guys have that because my life goes quiet life goes by it’s kind of hurting so as young people figure out what you want to do any questions well you’ve been a pleasant audience thank you for that gift

Feel so up down heel toe up down heel toe up down one more time heels toe up jump try it with me okay heel toe up down heel toe up down that’s your basic okay now I’m going to show you a step You’re Gonna Go heel cross over toe heel your other foot heel crossover then back heel good try it again feel Joel heel toe heel good and then when you start jumping you can go heel toe heel toe heel oh no yeah you’re doing a good job you feel so heel toe heels heel toe heel and when you keep practicing you’re going to be able to add it all in there all right try our basic stuff again feel toes up down heel toe up down maybe you try jumping jump on each one heel toe up down yeah I’m glad you’re trying keep going good and then when you’re when you once you’ve mastered the heel toe up down you’re going to end up putting in that kick at the end heel toe up toe heel toe up put and when you put it all together oh just like heel top don’t forget you need everybody forgets your knee bring up your knee heel toe up heel toe up good job see you guys said it was so hard there you go good job all right he has to go ahead and take the seat thank you guys for trying teaching for 23 years I’m have taught 150 plus kids already students and I’m currently teaching 40 kids in Bellport right now but I also have the help from my daughter and for my son they come help me as well um well uh how did let’s start it here dating back to the 18th and 19th century Chippewa women and fur Traders were married The Descendants later called themselves Matisse which means big split also Mitchell we Jake and square dance to acknowledge the part of ourselves to honor our ancestors what is jigging traditional dance of the metis culture jigging is influenced by the styles of Scottish French and our first Nations people a dance that requires extensive physical activity high energy fiddle upbeat fiddle Temple what is square dancing square dancing now is um it has four couples boy and girl four couples and trust me there’s been girl and girl because a lot of boys don’t do it you know they and if they do they’re in another group it’s hard to get a but anyways um your poor couples and uh eight people you have to synchronize in timing and it’s usually done with a collar and when the caller when he’s calling it out he’s calling out your next move so it’s very important to listen to your caller today’s we don’t have any colors because it’s it’s a talent to call out I mean that’s really hard that’s like you ever hear of yodeling that’s almost how it sounds but you have to really pay attention to what they’re saying we don’t have too many callers we don’t have any here anyways but I know there’s some in Canada um in Canada that’s where you’re going to find it to be most popular square dancing and jigging um they’re trying to bring it back we had any of you guys been to the Kaplan Fest Brian’s Fest you’ve been to the kaplan’s Fest Brian’s Fest have you guys seen any of the dancers there no um like I said square dancing is usually done with this collar and it’s synchronized Genie I’m gonna show you guys a video of uh have you guys heard America’s Got Talent yeah Canada’s Got Talent no well America’s Got Talent Canada’s Got Talent it’s getting the same thing but there are three boys that went on Canada’s Got Talent and they took first I won like lots of money I can’t remember how much but they cook first and they’re really good but this is their winning performance [Music]

They will not sit this drum out of respect for where it came from the women gave us this big drum right here so out of that respect they look at it and themselves [Music] a living being so you’ll never see anyone at our drum group just hitting this drum for no reason hitting it hard or you know some people act really crazy and they want to get crazy on the Drone whatever if you have that teaching that respect that love that recognition as to what this really is it’s a living being right here whenever I gave my uncle tobacco I asked him can you name my drum for me I gave him that tobacco and we sat there and we were out of Powwow some people will say that Apollo is not a ceremony but if they got that Spirit fire at the powwow ceremony there was a fire there they gave him that tobacco offering I asked him to bless the strum the scrum’s name is thunder being it’s a spirit that’s inside of here you see right here there’s blueberries on this drum if he’s the strum give this drum drinks of water even water right now just to show you what I need just a little bit just rub it in that Grandpa a drink the difference between drums that I was looking for the women could play this one they will not play this one out of respect for where it came from there was a young lady The Village was under attack she submerged herself underwater they say it was for four days and for four nights during that time she had a vision about this big drum so when the village was left she got out of the water and it was destroyed she went to look for her people you still have this right here this Vision she brought it to life she went to her leaders and she said are we gonna do with this drum when we were under attack I had this Vision about this drum they already had their big drum so they said you go off of that dude people as a peace offering bring that to do with your voice so she did when I peace offering we have powwow drums the powwow drum ceremonial drum I use this drum at different ceremonies we have a big drum Society that’s mainly in Minnesota right now that big drum Society with the midday Society medicine people very very special drums that big drum and that water drum they work together to help our people heal I haven’t been to a big drum society yet meeting but uh I’m gonna go soon just experience it so you guys you guys should get inspired to expose yourselves more to culture when I was your guys’s age I didn’t have this opportunity got me there that was not in our schools Seven Grandfather teachings I had culture 30 minutes a week that’s pathetic this right here saved my life if we don’t focus on this more in school and I’d be I’d be better off but I’m still better off right now but I would be better I’d be a stronger individual at times I didn’t really know how to cope with things but my culture our culture helped me do that I learned how to cope with things properly I learned how to heal properly drums because of our culture they all work together just like now different times where people’s loved ones passed away in the community they don’t know what we’re called and grandpa just passed away you see we can’t call our uncles we don’t even know where they’re at oh what about that one kid from dunseith yeah those two young guys there yep and they called me and my cousin we’re all over his singing everywhere it doesn’t matter you know For the Love of our people to do that there’s times where people want to give us money to go and do that out of respect or you won’t turn it down because maybe that’s all they have to offer you might not have this is the proper gift blankets proper gift back with a proper gift for those things they might not have that they might only have a hundred dollar bill that would be very disrespectful of me to say I’m sorry I can’t take the only thing you have to offer me anymore but you’ll never see us or hear us say oh we need 200 to show up or else we’re not going to sing for your grandma the love that we have forever I can I could care less if somebody gave me tobacco or not if somebody in that family said we need you to be there that’s that love because he represents love rules [Music] so you guys and young ladies carry that with you so as much love as you can to each other because that’s important be nice to each other be kind like I said you know we didn’t have this whenever I was growing up a culture presentation in school like this oh man it’d be blizzarding outside are there any questions you guys might have for me and that song comes from one of our veterans he was out in war it was really sad during that time he was humming this melody and his words came to him he was overseas when this happened they got that translation and whenever he printed on it that song came and it literally saved his life in battle not saying that they couldn’t kill him or that there was like a special power on him but that song itself brought him home he was able to share that with us now we still sing that song because the veterans Michigan I’ll do one push-up [Music] [Music] I am [Music] Spanish [Music] [Music] there’s one person to the veteran song oh my Our Kingdom walk in the sky they’re arriving to a foreign talking about our people wrongfully forced to go and fight Wars that we had no business in killing innocent people for what that’s what that song was about that guy was so scared he was so sad we’re in a foreign land these people are trying to kill us for what we’re trying to kill them for what that song saved and brought him back here because whatever was happening they wanted to protect them they wanted to protect that song they wanted those injustices and adoptable here today I’m talking about him and that was probably 60 to 70 maybe even 80 years ago during one of the world wars longer than that probably longer man if it was during the world wars which I have my elders shared that song with me and depending on who you ask those were your translations we’re talking about arriving in a foreign land we’re arriving there they went there most of the time by plane over here yeah man that’s my favorite song to sing there’s a lot of history behind it a lot of meaning whatever connection to something you can do it better you sing it better it sounds better are there any other questions the culture getting these drums I mean both of these drums this drum right here started off with this hexagon I don’t even know what kind of wood this is I think this is a cherry wood pretty sure this is a cherry or it might be a scene or what I start by soaking the skin of the animal this is the Alcove so I saw this alkai for 24 hours normally I would have Rawhide lacing for it I didn’t have any more lacing so I had to make do with this sinew is not ideal you can tell it’s kind of wearing and caring already so as I’m making that drum it’ll sold for 24 hours tie it up after it’s tied up like this I’ll put something around the sides usually just to keep it down and it’ll finish drying for four days once it’s done drying in four days it’s ready to use four days is like hibernation for a drum if you let it sleep while it’s dry and sleeping this drum was the same process I soaked my Buffalo hides I don’t know what kind of lacing this is I think this is a steer or a cow lacing but I soaked that too in this Cherry frame I painted it with that red stripe around it and after 24 hours I put this one down with the Rough Side facing up and I put my wood on there put this one down carefully tied it up I’m an artist you guys so I really try to make things like to the best of my abilities strongest perfect if there’s anything like this bothers me this really bothered me because I’m a perfectionist but I use it every day to remind myself nobody’s worth so you guys have a great day

This person that’s next to you because you might have some similarities but at the same time you are different because you like different things and when you can come become comfortable in your in your within yourself that’s when you find that strength to be an individual independent person and you stand up for who you are so with that I’m gonna go into a little bit about the skirts because that’s another part of our identity the very first time that I’ve asked to go to ceremony this is Grandma that gave you my name so when you come she says bring a skirt okay so I go over there I would never in a sweat lodge or anything and I go over there and I’m carrying my skirt and then I look into some other at least not be ladies there that were older than me they all had their skirts on and I looked around and they were all just pretty skirts you know they have different colors and all this I was almost ashamed to take my skirt out because I knew I had to put it on and I just grabbed any old skirt from a drawer because I didn’t even wear a skirt I put on this skirt that would just some kind of skirt maybe it might even been my mom’s I don’t know but I just grabbed this to put it on so then I’m sitting with these ladies and I tell them oh I just love your skirt mine I don’t know you know I was kind of like uncomfortable and that’s what was my first time learning about the skirt why I have to wear a skirt for the first reason it wasn’t the looks of that skirt it was for respect it was for respect that I was going into this into this lot going into ceremony and not that there was some older men coming and some young men to me and so I had to be respectful and I had to wear this skirt to hide my legs to wear long sleeves kind of just kind of take care of yourself you know and not like show off any part of your body and then I was clocked inside the sweatpunch that the reason why we had that skirt up was because we were life-givers and Mother Earth is a life Giver so we connect as women with Mother Earth because of being a life Giver that’s the most powerful time in our life sometimes so but we connected with we connect with Mother Earth um and that’s why we have it’s like this tunnel we connect through this opening the bottom of our skirt we connect to Mother Earth who’s a life Giver to the moms who become like papers as well and so that was one of the reasons why you wore that skirt the other reason was because of just having that respect for all others other men how we respect for yourself when it came to colors excuse me when I came to colors like I said all these ladies had really pretty skirts on they were colorful and I come to find out that some of them boredom excuse me like a faulty Network um some of the colors represented their names might have represented their Clan but it represented yeah they were given specific colors so they would put those specific colors on their dress and it’s the same thing that goes with the men’s ribbon shirt you might be given a gift of the color and then the colors of the ribbon that’s going to go on your shirt so with that they might say go and make that skirt or go and make that shirt because that’s you that’s your spirit shirt that’s your spirit skirt some skirts are made for different types of Ceremonies as far as like the moon ceremony um some can have a collection of skirts and one of the things now is there’s there’s a style of traditional and contemporary we live in both worlds guys we have a contemporary style that we have no choice we have to go to school we have to get educated in order to survive our society today but at the same time we want to try to preserve our culture and preserve who we are as unique anishinabi people tribal people so we need to carry on and hold on to those teachings and that history I always say the most powerful weapon that we have now today is education and it’s it’s education is going to be a place where we can move on to better our communities and our tribe but at the same time in education have that ability to preserve what we what we were brought up with and what our grandparents had when I talk about contemporary skirts there is no right or wrong you can wear a skirt that has meaning to it you could wear a skirt that maybe you dreamed about or a shirt um and put the driven colors because that’s what you saw in Your Vision maybe you’re an artist how many of you like to draw them you do what you see so if you decided you wanted to create that skirt or that shirt that’s your that’s up to you and nobody can take that away from you if you want one ribbon on there if you want 10 ribbons on there it’s up to you we do have a few sacred numbers four and seven four the four directions like I have on my skirt today seven is the seven directions we not only have those four directions like north east south and west we also have the directions to the sky the direction to Mother Earth and to ourselves so sometimes you might see seven ribbons on the skirt um and sometimes now what I consider a contemporary style skirt you see some that have like overlay like there might be like kind of like a pretty kind of curtain kind of looking that’s a contemporary style skirt you might see young girls that have skirts that are up to their knees like above the knee it still has ribbons and everything that’s contemporary Sales Group I am not one of those grandmas that’s going to go and yell at you for having that because to me you’re still showing your strength you’re still showing your colors and it’s making you proud and you’re dressing up so wear that kind of skirt if you feel like you want to wear that color just know the times and different times to wear them you might wear that kind of your going on a trip or maybe representing your school and then there’s times that you might have to go to a relative’s funeral that they say wear a skirt please or maybe I’m going to ceremony maybe I’m going to the sunlands then you’re going to put that long skirt on right so it’s it’s that balance again you’re gonna know when to do what and I don’t think you’ll have any trouble with anybody moment you just know when that’s that’s my teaching with you guys just to know when and it’s almost like you know when you can get away with things and you know when you can’t so I don’t know how much longer we have but kind of basically what I have to offer you guys today um does anybody have any questions how many

And there’s also Cree florals that are influenced because there’s a lot of dirty influence here as well and so the Korean anishinabe florals are those are your designs those are turtle Mountain Designs and so those are the designs that you would connect with for me um as a Hopi woman as a Dakota woman my designs are of course Hopi designs and Dakota designs um so for us we have we for Dakota we have our geometric designs which are a lot like this you see me in the red there because you see all those geometric designs here um so that’s that’s part of it but we also have our Floral Design so Dakota also has swirl I’m wearing earrings that are very the coach of the floral inspired so um so yeah so with dancing comes so many things there’s you know of course the stamina and everything that comes with being a fancy shawl dancer the competitive side then there’s the you know connecting with your designs as an artist creating designs for creating your own beadwork and your saws and justice for yourself um so all of those things are incorporated into dancing and also with dancing I’ve been able to have the opportunity to travel so um I’ve been able to go throughout the United States and Canada and see all these really beautiful places oh can you guys let me know when I have five minutes left um and so I’ve also been able to learn about other tribes other you know hear other languages and learn about other tribal customs so that was always interesting and inspiring to me it’s also provided me with all of these other opportunities like being able to meet other artists I’ve been able to perform with dance groups and travel to different locations and different universities and different schools to share our dances our songs as a form of Education to you know talk about you know how we live our lifestyle as powwow people and the things that come along with that um and then being able to open up or for games you know I like right here I did a opening performance for the KU Jayhawks baseball team that was really fun um so I’ve been able to have those you know really cool experiences and then also as an educator as an instructor if you see the earrings there those earrings are from my class at TMCC so the class that I taught on how to you know do beadwork those are the students work that came from that so as an instructor I’m very um blessed to be able to extend my skills with my students so that they can learn how to do that too because I feel like that’s really a part of connection to Identity with culture and because those are skills that our ancestors did right so it’s it’s it’s really for me it’s it’s grounding um and just to share some of the artwork that I’ve done I’ve I’ve worked with dentelium also so there’s some dentalium earrings and necklace that I made um there’s a little clutch purse that I made and then there’s a men’s shirt that I just I made and designed and so that would be an example of like anishinaabe and green Florals um and then actually this one is a that one was Dakota floral inspired so and then um another thing dancing has provided with my friendships this is my best friend she’s she’s also um she feels the same way about fancy shawl that I do I think all of us all feel the same way about dancing I’m very passionate about it something that we um identify with our culture and um being able to sew and be for ourselves is you know it’s our it’s part of the passion too [Music] but she really inspired me in so many ways and that’s why I showed this picture from her and I together um so fancy shawl has also provided me with a platform so for example coming here to speak today to you guys and be able to share some of the things about my lifestyle um is a I think it’s a really cool opportunity that I get to do this I’m very thankful for that it’s like it’s almost like it’s an inspiration for me to keep going to because I have a responsibility to educate I have a responsibility to share my knowledge with you and that’s one of the things that’s important about being an indigenous person is the responsibility that you have that comes with learning something new so for example what I did mention that education is important to me it’s valuable and when I say education I don’t mean just formal education I’m talking about any kind of Education so you can go to trade school you like you can go to hair school uh whatever you’re passionate about um that’s what you do that’s what you go for because I’ve for me I followed my passion with dancing and it’s brought me to where I am now and so I followed my passion with artwork and it’s brought me to be able to teach these things and to be part of you know it’s my responsibility now to my me I think about you know how um grounded it’s it’s brought me to my to my culture to my ancestors and how grounded I am in my identity as in Dakota as a healthy and so for me being able to share my experience with you it’s my hope that you find that connection as well with your identity you are and how you identify yourself whatever that means to you and so that’s my that’s my responsibility as an artist as a dancer as an educator and um and that really inspired me to live this lifestyle um and so all of these things go into living room on Disneyland which means in Ojibwe to live a good life and so of course you know giving thanks for our life because we only have one life so we have to be thankful every day and we thank the Creator every day and we pray to the Creator when we need help and we also do self-care um be you know live a healthy lifestyle alcohol drug-free the you know mindful about what you put into your body because we only have this body for a limited amount of time and then we have to give it back and so we have to take care of it we need to take care of ourselves we have to find a good support system so that we live a positive lifestyle education career job passion that’s when I talk about education that’s what I mean those I mean I find your passion and then it’s not only that kind of education but it’s your identity too your cultural education your language your cultural Customs you know or we have gender roles back in our in our ancestral days we had um you know the two spirit Community they had gender roles so those things are really important to you know to learn about and to get in touch with and so that’s another form of Education that we have to you know get in touch with so when I talk about education that’s what I mean not just formal education yes that is very important to get an education but also figure out who you are as an indigenous person that is a huge part of your education um and that includes you know your environment learning about your environment your community giving back to your community um so whatever passion that you have like if you become a welder then you have a skill that you can bring back to your community that your community needs right you have you have this skill that you can perform for your you can teach it you can build stuff for your community that your community needs if you want to go to hair school you can help people by giving them really cool hairstyles and that’s a confidence booster for people so just even they might be little things to you but those are huge things that you can contribute to your community formal education if you want to go get a bachelor’s degree master’s degree doctor’s degree that’s great too because you can also bring those things back to your community and help your people and work for your tribe or work for a school or whatever it is whatever you’re passionate about whatever you want to do and learning your language learning your culture learning your ancestral Customs those are all parts of um living a good life to me that’s and I just wanted to share that with you so yeah so that being said um do you have any thank you thank you if you have any questions or comments I’m not getting any feedback so I’ll just roll whatever I know I am too okay clearly I got a lot going on so yeah extremely tired so I’m trying my best oh my God [Music] okay