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Genre: Education
Date of upload: Oct 9, 2015 ^^
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She is brilliant and wise, OMG! I pray that there are more than a few listening! I have so been there and read a number of the boos she listed. I have been on the committee of the First Nations Film Festival in Chicago for many years, and been a friend of the American Indian Center in Chicago, I have studied many books and material about the history and culture of the First Nations. I am still so totally ignorant. May Creator help us heed this great woman warrior's words.
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So grateful for all Buffy Sainte-Marie has sensitively and generously "cooked up" and served us over so many years. A gentle, humorous, incisive, courageous, educated, compassionate, timeless and inspiring wake up call. And dang her, she says not to put her on a pedestal, but to go out and cook up a good meal ourselves!!
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Thank you Buffy Sainte-Marie,
I am aware through my life-experience in the winter of 2000,camping,mind you I was the only one at hardy Island between Vancouver and Vancouver Island,I visited a nearby native Indian village,to visit the museum but it was closed, I noticed a woman crying so I asked if she was alright and than I heard the story of this village, where native children were taken from their parents to a missionary school where all children were sexually,physical and mentaly,completely stripped from their Identity, you can already quess what happened when those children became parents themself, nobody is aware of what really happened then and now, in 2004 I quit my job and became a bear care-taker, a natural shelter for bear cubs in Kuterevo, Croatia near Velebit mountains, where most Native Indian films were made, I volunteered for 7 Γ‘ 8 years to do something in return for this beautifull animal and there are many life lessons for human life through observing their natural behaviour,thank you for sharing the truth through your love for all life,
Is there something I can do to help?
Enjoy a beautifull new dayπβ€βπππ»ππ€π
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What a wonderful, positive human being. Not to mention her massive gift of creativity. A treasure. What she says is true. Just like abused kids often grow up to be abusers of people or substances, people who have come from abusive political situations also tend to bring the internalized violence with them. Hate the violence and the injustice, not the people. They need to be set free from what has distorted their nature.
My two favourite Buffy tunes: "Cod'ine" and "My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying". I was a teenager when I hear the second one, and I was riveted to the spot. The words went through me like electricity. Heartbreaking and galvanizing.
I think it's time that Canadian schools put Indigenous/Native Studies in their core curricula. It was recognized in the late 60's that French ought to be studied by every Canadian in the interest of national unity. There can be no deep national unity without a thorough knowledge and appreciation of Indigenous reality and history.
My own experience of non-Indigenous young people in Canada is that they are very receptive to Indigenous values, and appalled and angry at the history of abuse of Indigenous peoples. They want justice for everyone. Young people are wonderful.
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@johngreen1776
3 years ago
So interesting. My parents were school teachers on the Navajo reservation. My parents were too busy with their own lives, but the Navajo people took me in as one of them. They taught me to love and really accept people as they are without judgement. I still see white faces as foreigners and brown faces as family. I am a Navajo inside, but white outside. What a blessing from God to be raised by the tribe.
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