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Our social enterprise will offer Indigenous-led education through land based teachings while addressing the negative stereotypes mainstream society has of Indigenous peoples.

In ithinimowin, nehithewiwin, or just speaking the Cree language and more commonly known as Cree; nipin (summer), comes ...
07/07/2023

In ithinimowin, nehithewiwin, or just speaking the Cree language and more commonly known as Cree; nipin (summer), comes from kinipin (fast medicine) is what the old people say!

Nakatamawow means “I will hide it from him or her,” as in protecting it for them. Pawakanak (dream guardians), Napewnak (male warrior), Iskwewnak (female warrior), or ithinewnak (human warrior or warrior if you may). Hence nipiynak (water guardian or water protector if you may).

Nīpin follows the calendar years of July and August.

Nīpin, or summer, actually translates to "gifts from the water" (nipi = water; in = to give) because this is the season in which water is providing life in the rivers and through the raspberry and blueberry rains. The moons for this season are paskahawī pīsim (egg hatching moon) and paskowī pīsim (moulting moon). The Asiniskaw Īthiniwak would fish, gather berries and medicine, and make pottery. Nīpin also marks the new year for the Asiniskaw Īthiniwak - this is when you count how many winters old you are.

For more information, visit our website: https://sixseasonsproject.ca/seasons/nipin

Biological warfare has been going on for centuries, if not for millennials. Studies after studies illustrates this — whi...
01/07/2023

Biological warfare has been going on for centuries, if not for millennials. Studies after studies illustrates this — which have established various modern theoretical including technical degrees, doctorates, professions and careers. In retrospect, the “prince” of darkness named Vlad III — also known as Vlad the Impaler, Vlad Dracula, or the real Dracula — history depicts the Impaler as a ruthless leader in warfare who also practiced biological warfare. Chronicles chroniclize the “prince” of darkness of intentionally infecting his soldiers with disease in order to contaminate and eradicate his enemies on and off the battlefield.

Similarly, during early colonial presence in the south — and having no immunity to foreign diseases that were intentionally introduced — viral biological contagions spread across the Americas like wildfire. There were tens of millions of Indigenous people who perished from foreign diseases who never even seen or met a foreigner. Oral history, government reports, and early colonial journals portrays explorers including missionaries distributing and trading infected blankets that reports Indians dying in the hospital from foreign diseases.

Additionally, Colonial Officials waged biological warfare in order to dismantle the political units, strength, and influence of various sovereign Original Nations. There are numerous nations that became extinct we never knew of and will might possibly never know due to biological catastrophes. For example, a British colonial official once asserted “you will do well to try and inoculate the Indians by means of blankets, as well as every other method that can serve to extirpate this execrable race” (Jeffery Amherst journal).

What’s worst, John A. MacDonald — the Sinister Prime Minister — advocated and ordered healthy and sick children to sleep, play, and eat with sick kids at residential schools. There was even instances where children infected with tuberculosis were brought in and out of poorly ventilated and mold ridden residential schools. The residential school systems were just one of many “revolutionary” mechanisms, Indian Policy, public declarations, or legislation that were applied for assimilating and assassinating anything reminiscent of Indigenous peoples from memory, place, and sound!

Even my own nation were traded disease ridden blankets that nearly annihilated my community. My uncle said “it was like everyone just vanished one day” after they were traded blankets riddled with maladies of calamities as demonstrated above. Thankfully, a traditional healer saved whoever was left at that time! Although I do not agree with the “primitive” wording in the images, which is used by narrow minded academics to publicly and institutionally diminish the very existence of Indians to justify social hierarchy. This story is about warriors who were traded and infected by disease infested blankets. The mineral water or springs at Manito Beach is what saved them from extinction!

21/06/2023

The Indigenist Protagonist:

What does it mean to be Indigenous? Does it mean to be traditional, a person who smudges, a person who bingos, or does it mean to be a survivor, lover, friend, mother, father, brother, sister, uncle, aunty, or cousin? Or does it mean to be something else like some sort of deadly Indigenous creature?

Well, according to scholarly literature, Indigenous peoples can be described as ecosystem people, conservationists, bio-chemists, agriculturalists, and civil engineers; who had well-ordered, methodical, diligent, disciplined, and cosmopolitan societies. But because of experiencing invasion for over 500 years, we have been only allowed to adapt to to innovations of our own technologies. Not saying everyone was living in peace and harmony with all of nature - which is a fantasy and travesty to publicly assert that. But various nations did share and trade knowledge, ceremonies, agriculture, and various items in vast functional trade networks which spanned from coast to coast to coast to coast since time immemorial. Nobody owns anything - like some individuals and nations like to assert - but it is shared for all of mutual benefit which includes ceremonies, concepts, cultural items, knowledge, and even land.

Whereas, Indigenous Knowledge (IK), Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), or our Collective Human Heritage is geographically unique to a regional landscape. Knowledge gained from observing, testing, and analyzing the natural world of plant and animal life that has been developing, shared, and passed on through thousands of generations through rich oral history including graphic memory markers or dynamic tools of cultural evolution illustrated in rock art or picture writing, masks, and Wampum Belts. All languages and knowledge arises from the land!

In Canada, there are over 634 First Nations - including Métis and Inuit - each with their own unique identity, culture, and collective history. Most nations have been pan-Indigenized and labelled as Algonquin. From my view, we are all related and Crees, Anishnawbe, Ojibwa, Saulteaux can understand and have similar words. In my humble opinion, we all belong to the same language group and are one nation and all this it’s Cree, Anishnawbe, or Saulteaux thing is just creating division. To me, everyday is National Indigenous Peoples Day, or to be more politically correct in the Americas, it’s National Original Peoples Day! Because everyone is Indigenous, just depends where you come from.

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