s-yéwyáw: Awaken | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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Transcript

00:00Imagine that you are carrying an armload of bricks, broken to the point that they will

00:26never fit together again.

00:30Of our community of 350, we had over 100 children removed.

00:35My mom was five years old when they came and took her.

00:39I've taken a lot of years to put the pieces together of where I am from.

00:44They were old chums of mine who are long gone now, whereas I survived.

00:51The traumas of colonialism and genocide doesn't just go away, it takes more than a lifetime

00:58to heal from that.

01:00Imagine for a moment that you let the bricks fall to the ground.

01:12To walk away from the bricks is to decolonize.

01:17To listen and to feel is to indigenize.

01:21Canoeing back up our inlet would be a great part of our healing.

01:25You told me you need to do a canoe awakening ceremony and would love for you to share your

01:30teachings.

01:31The shattering of systems creates space for the natural ways of knowing to rise.

01:38To be tattooed by my own daughter, it just makes it that much more rich.

01:45I see young people that are starting to walk with their heads held high, they're drumming

01:49and they're singing.

01:52The dignity that was taken away from us is being revived.

01:57I'm grateful to see the whole picture.

02:05I'm at peace now.