Native Americans : We Shall Remain | LoVina Louie | TEDxCoeurdalene

ah, your lovely white Husker stops all the client squeezed and trusts the broadcast booths hello my friends, good afternoon, my Indian name is client, which means speak well and was given to me by my aya, who was my maternal grandmother, my heart is very happy to be here. Each and every one of you come from Sister Cheops, the Coeur d'Alene Tribe, and Plumber Idaho. I come from the Insult Teen Snakes, the Okanagan and Lakes Band of the Confederated Colville Tribes in Washington. I come from the Nimiipuu, the Nez Perce in Los Angeles. poi Idaho my parents are Devon Jeanne Louie I will be sent by Chief Morris Antelope of Chief Manuel Louie's Systems of the Snake Insult Team.

I feel honored to be here today representing my people, what I want to do right now is I want to take you back to a time when these canoes were on the lake, a time when our people lived off the land, a time before cell phones, buildings, hospitals and all the things that are used today, so as I travel back to this time, I would like you to close your eyes and come with me as you go back to this time you are walking through a forest and you can hear the birds singing and you can hear the Squirrels talking and as you come out of the forest you see beautiful tule tipis you see children playing, you may see this canoe in the water and the father teaching his son how to fish and feed her family, you may see a mother teaching her daughter how to tan the hides so they are warm and can make the suede we use, you will see the women grinding the roots and berries that will feed our families, you will smell the fire and you will see the venison hanging over the fire drying and you will see salmon around the fire and as he enters a tipi, you may hear a yacht, a grandmother singing to her grandson, you may hear as he wraps this child and the baby board, you might hear this song, wait, wait, wait, hello, wait, ha, wait, ha, ha, ha, ha, we're on our way, ha, ha, wait, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, our, still, our duo, they sang these songs to us when we were children, the love and the prayers they said made us who we are, made us in a silk chain, the hump.

Chien nimiipuu these songs that said these teachings that they gave us was love while I was wrapping the baby in the baby board I was praying for the next seven generations I was asking the Creator: Suton to help this child, you could feel the love in our songs and now Today you may wonder what happened to our people, what happened to the Native Americans, we just helped the Pilgrims and had a beautiful Thanksgiving dinner and then we disappeared because that's what America teaches is that the Indians help the Pilgrims. and then no one knows what happened to us.

The children I work with for the last 20 years have asked me why where did love go why is there no more love in our families why is there alcohol and drugs and so after 20 years I made this video this video is going to help you explain the historical and generational trauma of what happened to our people Leeloo one morning I woke up and heard my brother crying, he was screaming so loud he thought someone was dying mom dad screamed but there was no use trying, they weren't around . I ran out and saw that he had been in a pretty serious accident.

His bicycle was in the ditch, hanging down his arm. He had a bloody cut. He looked so pitiful sitting there in the dirt among the trash, Dad crying. I chose. he got up and started running towards my uncles the way it started to rain and got very dark, I could barely tell it was day, my brother cried and asked my sister where mom was, he didn't know what to say when The truth is that I do not know. but my uncle saw us coming he ran to the yard he took my brother from me and held him in his arms when he saw my face I realized I realized he was alarmed and said what happened you fell - uncle I'm so tired so tired of wondering about what did he drink why do they take drugs why do they leave us why did he say sister it's hard to explain and I said uncle try it and then he told me this story once this land was tipis as far as possible Look, the water was clean, the pristine land, we were where we should be.

The strangers crossed the sea and brought their illness with them. Our people cried, prayed and sang, but it brought them to their knees. Imagine your family and most of all your tribe, what if most of the people you love suddenly got sick and died and before he had a chance to bury them and mourn them, strangers came and took the land away. where you were born and wondered if your parents cared while you were being robbed? and your brother away or if they had been beaten so much that they had nothing more to say and then at school they cut your hair and beat you if you spoke the language that the creator gave to our people and the Earth woke up sister, I'm not trying de I tell you that your mom and dad are fine or that they are not responsible for the decisions they have made, but you see this damn meeting on your little brother's arm, if we don't clean it, it can't heal and it will do. all kinds of those deep wounds from our ancestors still bleed inside our hearts remember everything they have done that is where the healing begins so every morning when you wake up you pray this prayer out loud creator help me to live in a way that would make my ancestors Proud that you can be anything you want, just work hard, never give up, perseverance is the key strength, do the honor, that's all in your family tree, so keep your head up and know that my hope in my dream is that the video helps you. to understand what happened to my people, what happened to our people, but it leaves you with the feeling that we are still here, our people, our women broke the glass in Congress, the first Native American women, their success It was due to the prayers of our ancestors. one day our ancestors would take back this country that was taken from us and now we have a voice in America, now we have a voice for our women and our children and our people are returning to our traditional ways, the sturgeon-nosed canoe that you see here, the first time we brought these canoes back was just four years ago, when they took us off the lake.

Four hundred years, our people did not have to be in these canoes in our waters when our young men said prayers for the first. canoe that we made and they sang a song of honor and when we took that canoe down to the water and when it touched the water when it touched Lake Coeur d'Alene I could feel my ancestors welcoming us home welcoming us to this place that we we belong. in the water our people have fought for water in Standing Cloud they are in Standing Rock water is our life it is what we are the first canoe trip I took in one of these canoes I had my daughter Northstar with me and as we got around the kettle falling into the Columbia River and I was singing my Aunt Anne's song and we were paddling our canoe and my daughter looked and said mom and two eagles flew and she turned and looked at me and said mom this is going to be my fondest memory precious with you and it made me feel alive and it made me feel proud to be who I am and that's why what I want to leave you today is a song that the Creator gave me because under our skin whether we are white, black, brown under our skin , we all bleed red blood, we are all connected to each other and to mother earth and our teachings teach us that every decision we make is made for the seventh generation, that when I wake up every morning I wonder how I am going to make my ancestors proud today.

What am I going to do to make this world a better place? That's why the creator gave me this song and this song said that it is to clear the way and today our country needs to clear. The path for the leaders that are coming forward for the young leaders that are seen in the schools we must clear and so when I sing this song the way I was taught to sing it is to pray for all those people in all the places . directions in the north in the East in the South in the West to ask our mother earth to sing and be with us to ask father sky to help us to ask grandmother moon and grandfather Sun to be with us and to help us help and give us a good heart and a clear mind those are the teachings that the creator coolin brought and has given me and that is what I want to leave with you I want to leave with you with good and love from my people to your people and that is why this song As I sing this song it is a prayer for you and so I would ask you to take it in a good way Liam Lynch and the Rosborough broadcast thank you for my heart Oh Hey oh hey hoo oh oh hey oh hey specifically in the hospitals broadcast thank you for my heart lene lene cúcuta court CIA