Although most cats don't like water, pool safety is still an important part of keeping your kitty safe. Here are a few pointers for making sure your feline pet stays out of danger. Teach her to swim. Granted, not all cats will even get in the water, much less want to swim. But teaching your cat how to handle herself once in the pool could save her life as well as give her a fun new thing to do. The principles of kitty swim lessons are based on a very slow introduction to the water and the safety of your arms. Wearing a long sleeved wet suit and gloves is a good idea, and gradually letting her instinct take over until she's swimming on her own. Patience is key in feline swim school. Help her out. Getting into the pool is easier for pets than getting out. Kitty's soaked fur makes her heavier, and the reverse buoyancy of the water upon her exit makes it difficult to get out.  These devices are specially designed to assist four-legged friends in climbing out of a body of water. Dry out her ears. Competitive swimmers know that swimmers' ear, an infection caused by residual pool water leading to bacterial growth in the outer ear canal, is quite painful and slow to heal. Cats can be vulnerable to ear infections as well if thorough drying after immersion is neglected. Use as many soft cotton balls as necessary to gently soak up any leftover moisture in kitty's ears after she takes a dip. Dr. Billy Griswold of Priority Pet Hospital in Gilbert, Arizona, says a drying ear cleanser is quite effective as well. Beware of the pool chemicals. While a short dip probably won't hurt your pet, chlorine and other pool chemicals are best kept away from kitty's sensitive skin and delicate inner system. Keep your feline from drinking the pool water by keeping a bowl of fresh water in a shady poolside spot. Once she's finished with her refreshing dip in the pool, rinse her off thoroughly to remove any residual chemicals in her fur. Finish off with a brisk towel rub, a treat, and a cozy corner so she can enjoy it after swim nap. Get an alarm. For non-swimming kitties, prevention can be your best ally in keeping your cat safe around your swimming pool. Griswold recommends that pet parents invest in a water-detecting collar that comes with a remote alarm speaker. When the sensor gets wet, the alarm sounds like a danger alert. Other alarms that are made to detect disturbances to the water's surface are more sensitive to wind and can sound too many false calls, thus are not recommended. Hello. This video is sponsored by Beemix Pets. Are you looking for high-quality cat collars at an affordable cost? Check out BeemixPets.com. Use coupon code KittenLife to get 20% off. Strap on a life vest. Flotation devices and life jackets for kitty can make a hot day hotter, but they also let her get in on the splashing fun while ensuring she stays afloat. Life vests should only be used when your cat is being monitored with parental supervision. Keep a close eye on her while decked out in her life-saving garb to immediately detect signs of overheating, panting, drooling, restlessly pacing to seek a cool spot, sweaty feet, and excessive grooming in an effort to make herself cooler. Learn kitty CPR. Knowing how to resuscitate your cat after an accidental jump into the water can mean the difference between life and death. Pet CPR and first-aid courses prepare pet parents to provide life-saving techniques in those few precious minutes following an accident. No matter how close your veterinarian is to your home, the travel time may be too long for your furry friend. Interested students can take classes either in person or online for a nominal fee to ensure they're prepared for pet accidents, but Griswold recommends hands-on classes. Whether your cat takes to the water or not, these simple tips should help everyone, including your cat, have fun around the pool. Letting pets use the pool. In addition to the safety concerns for your pet, you wanna make sure that your pet is not making your pool unsafe. If your pool has a vinyl lining, it may be best not to let pets in. A stray claw can pierce and rip the vinyl lining, seriously damaging the pool. Also, when your pet swims in the pool, they introduce all sorts of body oils, dirt, and bacteria. Make sure you keep the pool filter on a little longer and monitor your free chlorine levels. Treat your pool as you would after heavy use from humans, such as after a pool party. Keeping track of your free chlorine and other chemical levels on a regular basis is the best way to keep your pool and everyone in it safe. Have fun and keep your pets in the pool safe. When it comes to pet pool safety, there are a lot of ways to keep your pets safe while also enjoying their time with you. So enjoy a few laughs and smiles. Keep you and your pets cool during the hot Atlanta summer. But most importantly, enjoy your pet's company. If you enjoyed this video, kindly press the like button. Also don't forget to subscribe with notifications on, so that you don't miss out on videos like this. Thank you for watching.


Hi everyone. Happy Friday. Happy new release day. I'm Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com with 2020 Panini Flawless Football, two box or two brief case break. Pick your team number one. We go by group break checklist, but group break checklist, it's been a big busy new release day so they have not done the Flawless Collegiate Football checklist by team just yet. So for this particular break, we're going to go by our non-pro uniform rules which is in our frequently asked questions section if you want more details on that. Basically, if they're an active player, they'll go to the team they're currently on. If they are retired, they'll go to the team they played for the longest and will be using profootballreference.com to determine that. All right. Big thanks to all of these folks for getting into the action. Really appreciate it. We've got more of this in the store, folks. It should be a lot of fun. Let's get it done. You can see that we did two different random number block randomizers. There's Jason B with the last fought mojo right there. There's a refresh case right there. We'll do both brief cases. Here's the Cincinnati, Miami, Green Bay number block and all of these are uploaded in separate videos if you want to check out how those randomizers worked out. Keep that list right here and we've got the Chargers one right here too. Adam looking for the, he was mentioning the chat. I don't know if there's going to be a lot of redemptions here, Adam, but he's looking for the Justin Herbert Redemption hot case. That list right next to me over here. All right. Here we go. Flawless collegiate football. These cases feel heavier this year for some reason or maybe it's just been a while since we've done flawless. Are they using different briefcase materials? I don't know. We've got more in the store, folks. So check it out. We'll slide this one just off camera. You can see it right above my head though. In here it is. Flawless football. Just silver briefcases is here. Okay. Sometimes they use different colors. I think they've settled on silver though. The most flawless. Yeah. Paul's saying in case you haven't seen it, prepare to be amazed. Yeah. Usually they do a pretty good job with this. All right. You can see on the top camera you can see the three encased cards right there. We're going to do the boxed up cards first. Oh, no tape on here. We're going to slide this open. Pop that right here. All right. Good luck. First one out of the gate is Kishon Vaughn, 15 out of 25. Kishon Vaughn, a buccaneer, I believe. That goes to Timothy. Oh, look at this. Nike swoosh, Brian Lewerke, one of one. I believe he is a patriot. I'm just going to test my college knowledge, huh? Of which I don't have a lot of. Well, he's currently a free agent, but yeah, the last team he was associated with was the New England Patriots. So Pat's, that's going to be the, uh, a number block. New England number block is on this page right over here. Derek Molanson with the number one. All aboard the Big Head Express. Woo-woo. What's good about the college stuff is that I'm sure Michigan State fans would be interested in that. You've got 11 out of 15, Albert Okwebanem from the University of Minnesota. I don't know where he goes. I can't even spell Okwebanem, Albert Okwebanem, Google, help me out. Darren saying Broncos, Broncos, there you go, you got, actually, I should be doing this as we go along. All right. I'm going to agree with that one. That'll go to Chris Peterson with the Okwebanem. Sean Vaughn is Tampa Bay. This helps the shipping team a lot. That's a number block break. The new rule, Adam wants a new rule to be, the new rule to be if there's no team goes to zero, and we'll have, we'll have the rules committee look at that at the end of this season. There's Henry Ruggs, the third, two out of 25 from our Raiders. Darren Porter House-Stake with the Raiders, there we go, the speed's here, going to Las Vegas. Okwebanem caught a TD last week. Oh, dust off your Okwebanems, according to my Google search results, a Broncos blog, Predominantly Orange saying Albert Okwebanem proving to be a steal for the Broncos. Jewel Relic and autograph, Heinz Ward, 16 out of 25. I don't really follow the college school, I didn't realize Heinz Ward went to, went to Georgia. He was, so he was a running back, freshman year, quarterback sophomore year, then a receiver in his junior and senior year, Heinz Ward throw pass as a, as a bulldog. I'd like to look up those highlights at some point. What's he doing now? Assistant, I think? New York Chats. That goes to the Pittsburgh Steelers, that'll be for James Allen. Yeah, I guess he did. Alright, nice Jewel Relic and autograph. We've got T Higgins, and there's Clemson Orange right here, his On-Card autograph, three out of five for the Bengals. He went from a cat team to a cat team. And that'll be Cincinnati three, Jason Wainer with that one. There you go, Jason. Nice T Higgins. Wow, look at this patch. Must be some sort of bowl patch right there, ten out of ten DeAndre Swift for Detroit, the EA with the Lions. Paul remembering that, that Hein did throw a couple of good pass on fake place for the Steelers. I gotta look some of that up. Sugar Bowl Patches, Paul. Nice. That's a nice one for Detroit. Wow, look at this. Jersey and autograph. Nine out of ten. Andrew Luck. Star Swatch Signatures. That goes to Chris Maxwell and the Colts. I'm not sure this is going to go into our 190 top loader. It's a little... I don't want to force it into this top loader here. Let's get a slider box going. My slider box is just too huge. Alright, so I'm just going to put this in a team bag here. Our shipping team will find the right case to put this in, Chris. And the Indianapolis Colts. Now, let's see what's in the in case. I will go left, right, and then center. Left side, we've got Jake from State Farm. Two out of five, Emerald. Nice. That goes to Buffalo, Jerry Bennington with that one. All aboard the Big Hit Express. Whoop whoop. Who's going to be the future Cowboys QB? Andrew Luck. Roger Ness. Alright, on the other side right here is Denzel Mims. Ten out of twenty diamond. Nice one for the Jets. That'll be for Mark Passet in New York. Andrew Luck as a Cowboy. I think Andrew Luck's going to come back. I don't think he's quite done yet. He might take a little bit of time off and then... Alright. In the center, two-color jersey and autograph. Ten out of twenty-five, Jerry, Judy for Denver, Christopher Peterson. With a nice two-color jersey and autograph. Alright, nice hit there. And that was briefcase number one. There's the Diamond Guarantee right there. Naturally Mind, Not Lab Grown, they say. Give that to some kid that comes into the shop here. Alright, no worries, Chris. Thanks for getting in. But wait, there's more. Let me move this Andrew Luck out of the way so I don't damage it with that metal case. I'll find a slider box for that after the video. Alright, next one. No worries, Chris. The important number was two. That's all you needed to see. We're doing both. Alright, good luck. I think people use box and briefcase interchangeably. We just used both. Alright, here we go. So once again, the slab cards we'll wait for. We'll bust out the... This box first. Good luck, boys and girls. Right off top. It's LaMichael Perine. Nine out of fifteen. Three-color dual relic. Looks really sharp. For the Jets. Samaj's brother, cousin. Related to Samaj Perine. Jets, that'll be for Mark. The set. Twelve out of twenty-five. Two-color patch, Justin Jefferson. He's been playing some good football for the Vikings. Steve Locke with Minnesota. He went from one purple team to another purple team. Here's my guy right here. Four out of twenty-five, Cleveland Ferrell. Raidus. That'll be going to the Porter House stake. Who's got Vegas? There you go, Darren. Need him to... To put a little more pressure on QBs. Pretty solid, though. Two-color jersey and autograph. Dwayne Haskins, seventeen. Out of twenty-five. That'll go to Washington. The Washington football team. Mark Mazur with that. I think he might get... Traded, maybe? Maybe find some new life. Somewhere. Someone wants to let this guy marinate behind a quarterback. Someone wants to coach him up. Here's a nice patch. Looks like a Goodyear logo right there. What bowl is this? Isaiah Simmons, twelve out of fifteen. Isaiah Simmons Cardinals. Isaiah Simmons, Arizona football Cardinals. That's for Chris Maxwell. Nice. Next up is... Eight out of twenty-five, Leviska Chenalt Jr. Some nice color. I like the little strip of gold. It goes right down the center. That looks really sharp. That's for the Jaguars. That's for Tim. Tim T. There you go, Jacksonville. We've got... Five out of five... Drew Brees in his Purdue gear. Wow. Another super-thick card right there. Which we will have to put into... A different sleeve here. I'll find a better container for this. But that's a great one for the Saints. Jimmy Cornwell with Nolens. There you go. We'll find Sliderbox for that. I don't have any available with me right now. And what did he play for the longest? I think he played for a couple of teams. Oh, interesting. All right. We've got seven out of ten. Desmond Howard in his Michigan gear. Go blue, he says. According to ProFootballReference.com, he played for Detroit. The longest. Four years with Detroit. Three years with Washington. Two years with Green Bay. Two years with the Raiders. And a season with the Jacksonville Jaguars. He did bounce around a little bit. So that'll go to Detroit. That'll be for EA. All right. Now we'll go left, right, and center. Good luck, everybody. On the left side, we've got Ruby and Otto, Jake from State Farm. Four out of 20. It's a nice smoke and hit there. Rookie Gem signatures. Matches the color of his college uniform, too. That's pretty cool. Buffalo! Jerry Bennington with the Buffalo Bills. Right side is Joe Namath. 19 out of 20. Joe Namath Diamond for the Jets. That'll be for Marc Bissette. And the card in the center here is... Oh, wow. Joey B, Joe Burrow. With the delicious Chick-fil-A patch right there. Two out of 10. And that's a number block team. Cincinnati. Cincinnati 2. Sean Maddock with Cincinnati 2. That's a nice way to end things, ladies and gentlemen. From one Joe to another. Thanks for watching, everybody. We've got more of this in the store. JaspeysCaseBreaks.com. We'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye. Chick-fil-A, I love it.


What program is that? So you're in a position to share education and knowledge about us and it's not like people If there isn't a name for the program specifically or that kind of thing that's fine But if you are in a position or in a role where you talk about education Is there a name to this? Eastern door Eastern door indigenous program Okay, thank you What are the age groups or the the target groupings of people that this would apply to this program? 18 to 90 years of age, okay What is the aim of the program to have a better understanding of? traditional knowledge What happens in your program? We open the meeting we open the program we open our circle Our teaching model is a circle we sit in a circle and we smudge to Plans ourselves to make ourselves ready for ceremony you have a pipe community pipe that is Open in our group and we bring the pipe when we load the pipe and smoke the pipe four times around the circle and we share After the first round the first round of the pipe is for prayer be grateful for today and the other three rounds of the pipe is open to questions sharing and Interactive listening and talking and we use the plethora to be able to have the permission to share and we We follow the agenda of Eastern door Program, thank you for for telling us what was happening You know what you can expect to go through But is there a specific purpose of of that program if I walk away from that program, huh? What am I happy with? my accomplishment the use of the program is Used in a incarceration setting and the main purpose of that program is to be able to understand and to participate in a Ceremony where for about an hour and a half we can all forget that we're inside of a prison Correctional setting so while you and your participants are there. How do you? in the participants measure success Who's measured in quite a few ways? I guess first off everyone is equal. We sit in a circle To be able to initiate that thought We were all equal We are all the same. No one is ahead of anybody else. No one is above anybody else. No one is Standing and somebody sitting and We are all either standing or all sitting We all acknowledge each other the moment of Being able to share with the handling of the feather the eagle feather the act that we're there to participate The act that we're all open to the ceremony that takes place to open to open up the prayers open up Time for everyone to be able to share Questions that are asked the agreement that we were all going to be peaceful for the moment that we're in that in front of the medicines in front of the the altar in front of the sacred items No one is going to get personal and hurt somebody else It's pretty unique because it is a prison Inside a prison there is always act of no trust no talking and no love The same thing that's he present in any abusive relationship any abuse of actions that take place They are present inside prison. Don't talk don't trust don't love so in that in that aspect where Not to trust Is present and taught it is a success that we don't hurt each other Anytime we're in that circle because we are all from different tribes different parts of the country Different we're in there for different reasons and I say we because I I Am a participant of that group and a leader of that group and a facilitator of that group sometimes places kind of grade success By being able to say Their enrollment is growing Is that a measure your program would acknowledge or is it kind of ebb and flow kind of participation? I guess Statistics put together by the government identify that area they encourage a Lot of participants be there even though They limit the amount I can go I still get anywhere from five to 25 I've had up to 29 in my group in one group probably I wouldn't be exaggerating but I would just say that I probably have the biggest group the biggest groups in my programs and anywhere else had ever been I Do have a lot of people come to the group So just so you know like all of these all these We'll call them some questions We're still on we're still in question one What are the some questions? I guess the last one we can talk about is What challenges have you faced and? How have you overcome them to meet the program the success that it is? the different dialects of the people that participate in Ojibwe Kree Mohawk Oji Kree Shia and Hadawa the different tribes understanding tribal relationships Understanding differences in background. We have urban urban indigenous people. We have members of First Nations people we have status people Now we're having a lot of Métis people coming to our groups There is a recognition of some people understand some of the languages some people Barely speak English a lot of people It's the first time they're ever in program run by Another native person a lot of them don't understand and have never had any training in sweat lodges as circles past peace thing They've never Spoken their language. They've never heard their language spoken. They've never sat with a pipe. They've never used a feather Some people have never Understood the seven grandfather teachings some of them asked for a grandfather teachings. I Tell them I don't teach the seven grandfather teachings You're supposed to acquire grandfather teachings through an observation of the person Modeling those teachings language is acquired. It's not necessarily thought our method of learning though Where Ojibwe language has gone by the wayside our greatest teacher? in Conscious to children has turned into a religious figure Nanabush who now sits beside God up in heaven according to a lot of people Nanabush was our teacher of Consequences to behavior No longer is recognized as such. I tried to bring that back to understand the act of Life as a journey. It's not a destination try to understand that I'm not there to judge criticize I'm there to be a participant in A place where we all grow. What was the question again? So we were talking about What were the challenges of you developing the program and then what what was it that you did to kind of? Overcome those challenges. I think the biggest part was to turn it into a participation Program rather than a program where there was a presenter that put down his ideas and argued his ideas I came to a Sharing circle where people shared their thoughts shared their emotional feeling their feelings and so forth and shared the knowledge that they had whether it was has to do with indigenous traditional knowledge or Knowledge of their daily lives knowledge of crime. What was there? What was there stands with crime? What did they have to share about their feelings of towards crime? What did they have to share towards your feelings of what happened to some of them when they went to a school? What what what they termed as civilized? What what did they think was civilized? Answers to that the challenges were in the programs themselves Programs had been put together by non-native people for native people a lot of the programs that I I ran across were put together by non-native female people that were being directed towards male indigenous inmates and it didn't It'd be like me trying to explain to someone how it felt like to be pregnant But it doesn't die and a lot of the inmates were smart enough to say I don't understand that Why is that woman putting me into a box when I'm already inside a box there the understanding of Western Society and Western knowledge It's put together with left-brain knowledge towards people that have been in trauma When most people have been in trauma it switches you to Right-brain dominance, so you have left-brain people putting together a program to be directed towards right-brain dominant people How can that work? How can a left-brain person understand that there's no such thing as time with indigenous people How can an indigenous person understand the importance of time when most of our knowledge is pretty well mnemonic? and At the best taking nature we have acquired Encoded knowledge writing to our DNA because that's the way we've been for thousands of years And all of a sudden we are being confronted with a 500 year old language That has to that is supposed to understand all that stuff and you can't explain that in English So that's the challenge I know you understand what I'm saying. Yeah, well There's many layers for sure So something I want to just dig a little deeper in terms of a challenge was you spoke about working with other nations Man in your in your environment. Yeah, tell me a little bit about the challenges of that well when you've had a language that is basically nearest nearest to the year I can put it at through fossil discovery and so forth Our language is about 13,000 years old with 13,000 years of knowledge Embedded and intertwined right into the language. We were talking about God our relationship to God 13,000 years ago 11,000 years before the Bible came along. We had a relationship with God We didn't we didn't have faith. We didn't have belief because we didn't need them. We had knowledge We had we knew God we called them our relations and we finished talking any time We were talking by a fire or any time we were talking in the main ceremony We we ended that by saying to all my relations talking about the grandfathers talking about Our relationship to nature, which is creation the Creator had put creation there We had an understanding our drums. They were made to resonate Send messages across the universe even our measurements. They were Subliminal knowledge that we're right into our being when we when we were babies. We I think our non-native people have their remembering their focus they they think that they're Remembering the dream members of their dreams starts when they're about two years old and Their awareness of stimuli starts they say between 18 to 20 months. We measure our knowledge of Stimulate to come inside our mother's womb. We listened to that heartbeat for nine months.  You have you go into a frenzy. That's why there's riots at some record some rock rock music People's spirit goes to a frenzy because they're listening to some music is faster than their heart.  What's going on? That's how baby learns it and Sometimes the baby if you're going to travel the baby is tied backwards in a ticking off And so that baby will know where he came from he will see where he came from So that if you're something ever happens over there that baby will find your way back Because he's the one that saw where they came a lot of our teachings is subliminal The act of picking medicines going with the grandmother picking medicines the knowledge stays in their mind So when they get older, they're looking for something don't find that subliminal know I Was raised that way. So that's why I know when you're I think when I was about Two three years old two and a half three years old My grandma told me that puppies came from pussy. Well, that's great. It's so my grandma Let's get one. She said okay.    We're gonna run forward and catch it as soon as it fell I sat there for three days Even my grandmother bring bring me sandwiches out there. I scone biscuits and so forth So because I didn't want to leave because I might miss something Watched in the cold. I get blanket sat there and watch For the piss because I really wanted that puppy When one morning I woke up. There's a sound at the door. What the heck is that? Something moaning away and everything that I'm waning away reached up to open that door and Unlatch it and opened it and lasted There's a little puppy there. Oh, it's really happy. Hey, well, we go then I got really mad because I'd missed it I'd missed it falling down off the tree My grandmother was teaching me was subliminal Subliminal magic always be ready to watch for magic.  You're always looking for exciting things You know always looking for what's over the next hill always well, you know Seeing a strange a strange person someplace when you walk in say hi to that person because Person could be somebody, you know, you know, you want to find out later on who this person is You say hello, how are you? You has it's a habit you have for us your life. So that's part of it. I guess Thanks for sharing that that takes us to number two from your perspective. What is Indigenous education? Indigenous education something about plants. I always said indigenous red plants. Anyway, when you talk about plants They said, oh, that's indigenous to this area I Guess indigenous knowledge or education to me would be I guess that teaching of perspective teaching of mnemonic knowledge teaching of Subliminal knowledge to understand the language to understand the meaning of language to know that there's a place where Dreams happen a lot of times a lot of the knowledge that I hear talked about in in group is Understanding spiritual knowledge Understanding something that I've never heard in school understanding spiritual abuse one of the most abusive Natures and this world and it's something that I've never heard talked about in school. I worked with a I was a supervising a student I was going after a master's in psychology or social work social work and some Psychology and she says the things that I talked about in group with the group. She had never heard Being talked about in any of her classes. We talked about spiritual abuse the act of Hurting each other spiritually the act of making somebody invisible for days at a time which is something else In another language, which is something else in another in another race, you know race it seems to be Minimizing somebody to a nothing some of the boys talk about partners not talking to them not talking to them per days And they talk about it's the most painful thing that happens to them is not being acknowledged for days at a time and some of them talk about The act of somebody disappearing talking right by them Talking right past them as if they're nothing. I see that a lot among our people some couples I know don't talk to each other for weeks. Some people I know on my first nation I don't even acknowledge me when I when I walk by them I talk I should go on Until I realized who was losing out he used to bother me, but now I at least I don't lose it I notice everybody that would box by me and because I was raised in In my language and I spoke in my language on my life My grandfather was able to teach me how it was that people part each other spiritually through the use of Sexuality there is a lot of abuse through the act of using sex as a power tool Recognize that as a spiritual warfare And I was a kid and when I was a kid I saw lots of them and There's no training for it in a school place of education. It's something that we learned through Ceremonial you learn through that through fasting you learn that through meditation and When we talk about it in group some guys get really agitated just Between someone screaming at you and someone not talking to you for days It seems to be the one not talking to you for days is more bothersome than somebody screaming They say that's the thing that's the scariest is Someone minimizes you to a nothing that is beyond abandon to an issue not a person Emotional abandonment is more scarier than physical then that's why they say that's why they suffered so much when they were kids Their parents were drunk drunk all the time and they were emotionally Emotionally ignored and they said that is one thing that hurt them the most is to have somebody there But not acknowledging their presence and hurt more than being physically abused if they were gone someplace and they went around It didn't hurt as much as somebody being around and not noticing but some of these guys are You know, they're pretty pretty big guys and they cry and talk about these things inside a prison to be able to dare go there has to be a Lot of trust in that pipe a lot of trusting that medicine because without that you couldn't do that So that's that's Something that I thought I'd bring up Well, you know like something that really Kind of caught my attention Was this idea things not talked about that that was that was basically a quote that I heard you And it's a good flow into one of the questions and that question is There's there's stories and knowledge that's really good That we almost hear routinely So keeping that in mind What knowledge is important to you that you would like to pass on to the next generation? Kind of excluding those classic things that that's constantly shared kind of in in circles Do you think there's there's stories or knowledge out there? That's important that isn't being shared currently Yeah, oh, yeah, I think the act of discipline used to be taught by aunties and uncles and What we would term as godparents now, I guess Even the word godparent people don't know don't understand that anymore and The act of visiting today through what I've gone through When we when it was New Year's Eve when it was New Year's Day from that day for ten days People used to go visit each other They would go to one house and then they would have dinner there and they would go to the next house They would have supper there and then next day they would have breakfast at one place and dinner at the other place And then they would have supper at the other place They went in the egg with every family In their community to renew our relationship whether it was good before bad or anything They would still go to every house Reserve and talk to each other and visit each other Now before that happened before my generation my grandmother Used to go visit one year at a time Other people in other in other villages She would go there and live there with other people for a year Later on when she became a medicine woman a blower. She would go visit people for weeks at a time Stay there and use her medicine and look after people there and during my time Just when I was a little guy there was still visiting each other in Saigamuk West Bay My home territory was Saigamuk.  Here's an apple But Didn't go in the house anymore Stopped at the door took the apple I was about 15 to I was about 18 He went most I found there was he didn't go someplace but they were drinking so he didn't go there As you didn't really want to get anything more than an apple so what's the lot of that visiting wasn't worth getting the apple anymore and Today People don't visit each other anymore. There's one man in Bear Island And I think there's about three houses in Massey Saigamuk They still run outside and they shoot the strips the shotgun off New Year's Eve boom And they all have happy new year, then they run back and out There's one house in Bear Island My wife's dad goes outside New Year's Eve and shoots the gun off at midnight boom Doing a guy that does again with the visiting Somebody comes over and sees him he invites him in Sit down has a meal very very few people today People don't even know how to talk to each other anymore Rather than talk to somebody You text somebody It's like turning your head into a house before you walk in you don't know how to talk to anyone No one knows how to visit It's a it's a thing with our language when I was a little guy in Saigamuk there was a guy named Nizhwasa Gizik in Saigamuk and my my grandparents My uncles my aunties they called they called this guy Nizhwasa Gizik So me I spoke both languages and when I was a little guy Some of the kids started to call this guy seven days Because that's what Nizhwasa Gizik stands for seven days So one day saw these little guys and there's seven days. Hey seven days seven days So after I became an adult almost like 19 20 21 The next generation behind me they called this guy hey seven No more seven days seven Evolving with the language Went from Nishnabe All the way to broke down English all in one all in my lifetime I think if we like if we went back to having names that meant something like me I was raised to be dodom my language meant something my name was something and I responded to it because it's who I was learning is just a name to be given to anybody. There's only One be dodom that I know of or do up no more. So when somebody else, but you don't know I knew with me There's somebody get young John and all that four guys jump up I Need John one of them is just a job But that's the difference, you know, we used to have names that went somewhere identities I guess the visiting being able to talk to each other. It's kind of one of the most important things We don't know how to do that no more. We don't know how to feel good about ourselves inside. So nowadays we We identify with each other by what car we joy What our house looks like when I was a kid lived in a little cabin in the bush two years old when I first had cognitive recognition First thing I noticed was a nice little cabin way out in the bush. There was two people in there me my grandma and Byters crackling I had my own little bed little short bed and my grandpa was gone and I knew he was coming back I didn't see what when I first remember. I don't remember my grandpa being there, but I knew he was there He was gone when I started to remember and I didn't miss anybody for Three months. I was back there with my grandparents Just me grandma most of the time never missed anybody. There was no music. There was no talking hardly except grandma to me No other kids know nothing, but we visited even when we weren't talking to each other We visited there's a formal communication. You learn to think for yourself, but there's nobody else So I think what I'm what I miss most of all is thinking in my language When you think in your language and you pray in your language There is always somebody listen, and I think that's what non non speakers miss They miss out on that because if you speak your language and you think in your language There is always somebody who's there's always somebody who's so when you pray there is someone is And when you pray in my language and when you talk to God When we have our circles we go there to talk to God We have a chaplain a touch. Yeah, they go to the chaplain They go to the chaplain four or five of them at a time go to the chaplain They go there to talk about God every day to go there talk about God you go to my circle We talked about a bit different in one when you talk to God you expect an answer You expect that someone just when you talk about God You're still talking about him as if he's not really there when you come out of there There is a big difference in how you think you acknowledge God Physically and spiritual There is a reciprocation of thoughts and it's a totally different experience So I think being able to communicate to God is a big thing. It's an important thing. There is a change in you when you Subliminally get response That would be what I would probably like to see something coming out of this a Couple of things that I would like to know a little more about and this has to do with Stories and teachings and Thinking about your grandchildren great-grandchildren the next The next generations to come You brought up you brought up Danabush And you brought up your grandmother was a blower Are there any particular stories or teachings From either your grandmother or Nanabush that needs to be heard that haven't been shared in the last while I guess Stories or teachings that you would want to make sure are captured. I guess I guess so what I experienced I never made a mistake when I was a kid right through till I was seven years old When I was a little guy, I didn't make mistakes. I broke things. I ran into things. I Forgot things. I Locked the dog out by mistake. I never got in trouble. My grandparents never pointed out that I made a mistake It was my second week of school I wrote something down one and one make three or something like that. There was a big X Put beside my work. I had never been cognitively Aware that you can make a mistake that time even though I didn't do things according to the way I was supposed to do them my grandmother or my grandfather watch me and I would make a mistake and the only way I would make the mistake was that I saw that I had made a mistake I did that I saw that and the only way I saw that was My grandma sometimes would show me is this what you're looking for.  I've been drinking tea since I was two years old She says, oh, she says here tea there. So I'd be careful. I didn't I would not have done I wasn't told I shouldn't be doing that.  Oh, geez 200 boots and that's the work there. I'm gonna help you. Okay, that'd be great To to order them to help me No to correct my kids if they need it if they ask for it. I'll do that to correct them I try not to do that because that's the way it made me really think about my life myself But I had room to it seemed like I had more room more room to come to my own decisions More room to to make mistakes because you got to make mistakes if you're gonna learn something You don't make mistakes by doing things, right? I don't go to work today and Turn around and do a lot of preaching to a lot of guys This is the way you should live like me quit drinking like I did don't do what you're doing. We're teaching them shame You're not teaching me anything else We didn't learn there's a hundred fifty thousand kids. I went to school. They learned they learned that correction through shame They came back and they became adults. They had kids they tell the kids you should be ashamed of yourself You should be more like your brother. We didn't learn anything from now. You're learning to hate your brother I At least I I learned to learn to hate my cousin because that's how my uncle taught me sometimes you should be ashamed And my grandfather never said you should be ashamed yourself never never heard any of that So you have a good feeling about yourself.  You were born with a shroud in your face So you're gonna be a pipe carrier and they didn't they didn't put me out to fast when I was eight years old My grandfather wanted me to go past my grandmother said don't do that.  What do you mean?   My grandfather said well, why would they do that?   He's gonna be that poor. He's gonna be strong enough as it is So that's what they did But they wanted they said well We have to teach you to be a pipe carrier because he's gonna be a pipe care And so I heard that but when you get to pipe teachings I don't think anybody with half a brain would want to be a pipe care like most other people I ran into Nowadays that they want to be pipe carriers. They all want to be Ordered pipe pipes from internet a Some of them were $95 some of the hundred fifty dollars three hundred They really want to be real strong pipe carries of seven hundred fifty dollar pipe. You can buy those you ever see them Intern and internet there's there for sale some of them guys They get honorarium for a thousand dollars a day so they buy a couple pipes put out there put out their Bundle there's one white pipes there See how powerful I am I got three of them. That's how that's how it's become because people There's a different.  We need a medicine man My family's really sick. You know where you can get one. Oh, yeah, I'd be all drunk up. I say, yeah I know there's one as well. Could you what do we need to give you to get to take us to that here? It's a while you have to give me some tobacco and what we have to bring for the healer I said, well, you probably have to bring them some Tobacco and some whiskey and you probably have to bring them blankets or something and bring some gifts Well, how well how well do you how well do you think you want to be? How much do you believe in what you're asking me to do? That's how you got it. That's how that's the presence. You got to get that person So they say, okay. Well, we've got to get quite a bit I guess because you know what you're doing and I'd be drunk and these people still looking for Especially not because they found out that my grandpa my great-uncle He'd been one of the past last ones to ever do a shaking tense ceremony No, it was one of my great-uncles. It was the last one they ever put a shaking tense ceremony The grand and my family my grandmother and my great-uncles Two of them were shaking tense that and they were expecting me to be a pipe carrier.  And so I started to change a little bit by then I'd have I'd had three kids At that time and I didn't know how to look after these kids tried to look after them tried to look for work I had worked and everything still couldn't be able to say okay. I'm not going to be drinking any more Bob-a-blah It's not because I didn't love the kids It's simply because I was more scared of being a pipe carrier and somebody giving me a pipe because I didn't know how to be a piker I thought you had to Be something extra special to be a piker to this day this day the same things there People say well, you know, you're going to do this learning. It's okay. I can try that but I don't know That's that's that's what I went through Nanabush, I knew that Nanabush was a teacher Nanabush was a teacher and he wasn't perfect a gun mother and introduced me to Nanabush when I was very young Nanabush He made all kinds of mistakes. He tried to take a shortcut in a bush and he was lost for days Nanabush went to a he went and made some soup turtle soup and put them I put it by the side after it boiled he put it on the side a little bit and he He asked his bum To look after his soup make sure if somebody came near a soup he'd His bum would wake him up. He said you wake me up if somebody can hear my soup So we went to sleep a little raccoon come along and what's this hate the soup Nanabush woke up As he was just putting it aside there. So sleep for a while. So it's super cool down a cool down isn't a raccoon come along It's all the soup Of course to eat his soup is gone.  So then he got he got he got he really hurt him So he ran through the bushes because it hurts so bad and he ran across these branches Willows the all-turned red from his blood became red willows.  So he ran with us more and ran word as rocks So he slid down the rocks scratch his bum because his bum was starting to heal and giddy So sliding under rocks for some Some of the scabs came off and see those scabs on the rocks Today said okay. He said let those scabs someday when the shinab is hungry. He can make those into soup So that's where we have those scabs on the rocks to some day Nanabush did That's one of the stories so he got into a lot of trouble this guy and when you're a little guy, I thought well He ain't going to do what I do this That's how you learned that's how you learned, you know consequences to behavior and He was a teacher and that's how I was raised all of his kids my cousins My second cousins we all learned from the old ladies of both Nanabush And he sat there and listened to stories. Oh, they smoke that guy's really something boy. He's bad Kids came back from Residential school they become adults that a whole different story of Nanabush. Nanabush was perfect I had Nanabush stories all the other stories changed around Stories came up where Nanabush was perfect just like Jesus Christ He didn't hear their old stories anymore kids didn't learn anything from Nanabush anymore Because they want to listen because they want to see how bad his dude was They weren't going to do what he did But when he became perfect kids didn't want to hear that anymore because they didn't they knew they weren't perfect So they didn't want to listen to the stories So kids changed kids changed because Nanabush changed. He became a different kind of teacher That's what I experienced the language changed the language for the word for What we've termed as a bad boy was jigglerousence We use that word, but the jigglerousence when you take it apart And look at the inner inner things of Nanabush Jigglerousence jigglerousence means you look at the little guy the behavior you're looking at comes from somewhere That old boy is not that behavior you're looking at it comes from somewhere That's what that's what our word says But because there was a language to replace it we said inside of jigglerousence we said bad boy So jigglerousence became bad boy And bad boy became jigglerousence So the language changed You nods that and you praise it When you look at the word you nods that and you see you hear people saying well guys crazy you nods them out You're misusing the word you nods again. You nods a man. He didn't belong anywhere. He belongs everywhere, but he doesn't belong anyway that's what our word means and That's exactly what you nods it means. He doesn't belong anywhere. And yet he belongs everywhere It doesn't mean crazy It's just describing how a person that's mentally handicapped behaves Describing it to a team It does not describe him a crazy person Crazy person is someone that's become insane More of what you're trying to say but no the language changed Some of our languages started to change and the people change as a result the way you treated a Person that doesn't belong anywhere When it became a crazy person you changed how you behave to that person a Person changed When you look at jigglerousence when you call him jigglerousence meaning is a bad boy The boy changed Instead of the boy being someone that has different kind of behavior. He became the behavior We changed When we change the meaning of our language Changed when we said me watch me what you mean. Thank you a lot of people will tell you me what you mean. Thank you It does not mean. Thank you It means he gives we receive and I'll ask you When you hear the word Miigwetch What do you what do you think is the difference when vice a Miigwetch it means he gives we receive that's what Miigwetch means What's the difference between Miigwetch means? Thank you And Miigwetch he gives we receive Is there a difference? There was a time when I related to thank you But then I heard The idea that was not if I say Miigwetch to you I'm not addressing you I'm recognizing That it's the creator who provided So like I'm directing the Miigwetch to you, but I'm actually recognizing that Creator how to part Whatever it is we were So how does that change you? How does it change you? How does it change my behavior expectations and so it's it's hard for me to I'm not really explained, but I got I'm shifting The understanding that it was something that you did as a person To recognizing that Creator how to roll So that's that that's how it changes me like a So you're acknowledging the abundance of creation Rather than the abundance of the person Yeah, yeah, I guess ultimately I'm I'm respecting Where it is I should be respecting as opposed to the act of an individual. Yeah So there is a very definite The other one is the one that is most profound a lot of times too is The word on England up When you a lot of people say that there is no word we don't really have any word for goodbye But the really old people used to always say before they parted they say I didn't want to I didn't want to I didn't want to mean But you've already accepted The next time you see each other might not be here It might be over that You've already accepted that so that when when you just do part trails You've already accepted that so it's okay. You've already Acknowledged that yeah, I guess the next time I'm gonna see him is gonna be over that so they there is In a sense, no word for goodbye because there is no goodbye Except that the other guy's gonna have a different address for That's what that signifies so a lot of times when I hear that Like people used to use it in ceremony even in the circles or I started to use that in my circle I didn't want to and the guys said, you know, I feel different all day when I say that And I said well, that's what it's meant to do.  So the understanding of the language and To to be able to use it the way we used to use a long time ago before we Understood another language It changes. It seems to change your life It's changed mine anyway for sure because the way that I I Look at even what I drive is that what I drive is really not mine Something my creation gave me a chance to be able to find a way to have that to be able to use it to drive somewhere But it's not mine because I certainly ain't going to take it with me when I leave So it changes your it changes your thoughts Yeah, I have heard you speaking in another place before and this conversation is reminding me of I don't remember Where it was you were speaking? But you were talking about passing of Sema and at some point You had said the old ones would never have used their left hand and you related it to warrior society Yeah, well a militia a Lot of our spiritual experience came from militia having a war with each other It was it wasn't about dying. It wasn't about killing. It was a spiritual involvement of the being You fought with your enemy as you chose the Apache used to honor Certain people that were very very very good warriors and they used to put Medicine down their kind of medicine for this being because this being was going to be teaching a lot of young people Young warriors because he was so good a lot of young Apaches were going to become very good warriors Because this man was there and these warriors would live a long time So it had a lot to do with spirituality spiritual being It wasn't that it was violent it was It was a fact that it built you to be able to go into that next world to be able to be whole So that's basically the teaching there because the traditions I went with that was to When you offer tobacco with your left you are showing that you don't have a Spill you don't have a shield so that I you know that that person touch trust you When you're handing out tobacco or receiving tobacco at the right you're showing you don't have a knife in your hand so you know you that person's not gonna hurt you because he's Had to do with The same thing with the European people that were in war They used to lift up their lift up their shields on your on your helmets To acknowledge and show each other their eyes to acknowledge each other they show their eyes So they don't wear a helmet no more, but they still that's where I come from The old way of lifting up their help lifting up their face plate a lot of our traditions come from militia The way that we say that women can't shouldn't be touching our stuff when we when we when they're under time a woman Is on this world to give life a man is on this world to take life to be able to feed your family You have to take life to be able to protect your family you have to take life So a man's job is to take that's why your eyesight is good and your eyesight is really good Is to be able to protect your your strong Protector a woman she's a nurturer She's been put together to bring life into this world and to And to nurture life to feed her child to change her child to be able to hear the child She got super hearing so she can hear her child when her child needs She will wait to hear her Hearing the superior to a man as man won't even hear nothing and just roll over to sleep and the woman said oh my baby's crying so they're two different ways of Expressing life two different ways of experiencing life Man and woman a woman is is there to give life and to bring life into this world to work in partnership with god She's built in such a way that her hips spread and everything to bring life into this world a man Man could never survive. He's not built Every human being that comes into this world Comes through a woman to be in this world So when a man is supposed to protect life and to to take life to be able to protect family His weapons his tools everything has to be top shape his spheres His bow and arrows his knives his canoe his snowshoes His quivers his clothes have to be in top shape to be able to look after his family A woman who gives life when they touch the tools Her gift of giving life is stronger than a man's love to give life to take life So when she does that she neutralizes his power because the power to protect life and to give life is stronger Than to take life. So that is why Women should not be touching man's things because they have both different reasons To be able to do what they have to do Sometimes guy will say no, you shouldn't be coming here because you you're on your time Says it in such a way almost to make it look like a woman's dirty when she's on her time. It's not that at all.  Oh, he loves me. He's taking garbage out.  Let me out. Who is it? No, no, no, no, I was just processing honey. Take it easy. A man doesn't know that a man doesn't know how to process He knows how to fix things. He's broken. I'm gonna go pixel. That's the two things The two things you learn, you know, we learned that in in our group And white battering is Some of the things we talk about in that group a guy'll say well, you know, I'm a very possessive person, you know, and Sometimes I say some really mean things to my partner And that that tobacco is bringing that feeling out and that pipe is bringing out that feeling. I won't talk about that You know talk about that. He says, you know, that's that's how I am and that's how I was raised I was raised in a very violent way and I know that's not right. So when he opens up and everything In a conventional western treatment program healing program Everybody is required to talk if you don't share in two weeks, you're out of there and say get out You're not you're not provided. You're not producing here. Come back when you're ready In a program that we try to do with the medicines and everything When you open the door to something that's bothering you you're not only healing yourself and opening your door You're opening everybody's door because everybody's listening to everybody can relate to what you're talking Because the medicine's in the pipe. You're open. You've opened up your mind.  So when a guy says, you know, uh, yeah, I am kind of possessive, you know When somebody looks at my woman, I get really freaking pissed off Another guy says, well, yeah, I'm the same way. How do you change that? See when you talk Not everybody has to talk. There's some of us that talk. There's some of us that Learn by keeping point. Nobody is told to leave that group when you start to misbehave or start to behave in a different manner in a circle in treatment You're thrown out of the group because you're disrupting you're disrupting the group In a circle where there's pipe and medicines When you start to act out the persecutor is well, he There you go. He's starting to heal. He's starting to think it's safe to open up. I'm going to let him do that Because what he's talking about the way he's behaving He's affecting the whole group.    He's not saying anything But you can tell he's reacting because you can see it in his eyes. He's Pretty nervous Everybody knows he can't eat because he's got the pipe there. So he's just what he's hanging around for dear life You know because he's he's feeling that he's he's participating But it's the only thing he's not from him. It's from him. So you learn those things You say wow if you if you would have been in my treatment program in rainbow lives I would have had the tourist guy out Yeah, so the behavior to treatment is different the behavior to healing is different the behavior to Like almost the shinobi people because they think in pictures we have a whole different response to Program when uh, if you're in an anger management program, what they call anger management If you're thinking about it in Ojibwe There is no such thing as anger management. No such thing. It cannot be totally totally Impossible to be thinking about anger management because if you're managing anger Trying to manage anger. You're taking away one of your greatest gifts Anger is a gift if it wasn't you wouldn't be having you understand. Yeah, so when when you're uh, when you're Looking at someone and saying okay. Well, he's very angry And so forth when I was working with the kids doing circles with kids I've never seen anybody come to me one of the little kids come to me says I came to your program because I think I've got a problem with anger. I never seen that what I always saw was Kids coming to my program because somebody did not know how to put up with their anger It was the hado somewhere that had a problem not the kid The kid was very well able to express how he was feeling pissed off About what's happening to him. The only thing is the parent or the hado did not understand what this guy was trying to show So when I did the anger management program when when you're looking at usual training of anger management, you're looking at pause response and You're looking at Stimuli stimuli pause response. That is what you're looking at in a violent form your reflex memory To stimulus speeds up from five hundreds of a second to two hundreds of a second That's how fast your response to Anger is or stimuli. I mean what I had to do In order to work with kids is figure out how to slow down the stimuli the Response to stimuli how to slow that down to its original Speed instead of about two hundreds of a second. I just Slow it down to two hundreds of a second. So they had still had the choice of how to react to the stimuli So in other words, I had to find out for myself. I had to find out that there's stimulus stimuli pause response But the thing is different with mishna other people because it's stimuli pause response Review because there is a review 99% of our people are in prison because of the review. See I walk into you someplace I have a top with you and we get into an argument we get into an argument we get into literally almost a fight Okay, we're both sober. We don't want to hurt each other. We're taking with our minds and everything And we we walk away one of us walks away.   So you have a couple of drinks What happens when you run into the guy again?  So 99% of the guys are in prison because they've gotten into a fight when they're drinking alcohol was about What we do as Anishinaabe people is we think in words.  Anytime you speak a person can literally picture what you're saying in Ojibwe because our whole language is all in pictures When I say a dog is just falling up there, you know, and everything I say like dog is just I don't know if it's just laying there, but in Ojibwe you say It's like the dog is just Likeless Just threw himself it looked like somebody just threw him there and that's what you're saying in Ojibwe So if you speak Ojibwe, you say Picture comes right immediately into your mind. You've spoken pictures And you laugh because that's exactly what I got looks like What you're just going to say So we're great. We're great at being able to talk in pictures when you are addicted to pain And you're a young guy what you usually do is you always paint pictures if you're addicted to pain you'll see What happens a lot of these guys is they're in prison And they can't find some they can't get a hold of their Anybody in their home. They can't hold them get a hold of their partner You've asked to use the phone.   They ask if they're gonna use the phone again And the person will say yeah, okay. Well use the phone but make make it fast So they'll be on the phone and Oh, yeah, she's home. Just actually she answers. Well, hi, hon. How are you doing? Where were you? And she said, oh, I was up with my aunts. Oh, yeah, okay Hey, let me talk to one of the kids Hi honey. Gee, daddy misses you. Yes I hear you guys went home last night I know you went Where were you? No, we were at uh down at downtown Yeah, who was all there the kid becomes the messenger to The picture this guy wants to paint So the more displacement and the more hurt he puts into this picture The more his body builds up second himself right out Pictures come into his mind hurt being with somebody else and uh Oh, it's starting to hurt just perfect now. Oh And he paints it more even more what they're in the bedroom. Oh my god It's starting to hurt just right So he keeps on really really doing it. He finds a picture that's going through his mind as perfect So what he does is he plays it and it rewinds it plays again Rewinds it plays again.  I don't want to talk right now. Oh There we go. There's what's going on. Ah, I think that just ain't good.  Why don't you talk about something else?  You mess around once in a while. Yeah. Well, yeah, I did Yeah, but that's different. I said, no, no, it is Jesus.  Were you talking about him? I said, no, no I'm talking about the symptom symptomology of possessiveness. I'm talking about The symptomology of an addict Trying to control something that he cannot control. He does not know that he does not control Except he thinks he can control He's inside here in prison trying to control behavior. That's happening outside of prison.    I just go get even and say why you got a boyfriend in you So sometimes our our conversations get pretty pretty hyper ready with him, but there's the medicines There's the pipe and most of the guys it's okay. Well, I don't cruel I think because I have respect for the pipe I have respect for the other guys here It's been what 21 years in that group. I've never had an incident. I get guys jumping up and hitting the wall I was okay, let it out man. Let it up You know, but the guy goes back and he's you know, it's calm street You know, did you ever see that movie once for warriors? No, I gotta get a whole lot of movie I want to show you to tell exactly what I'm talking. I'll get that movie They almost they tried to fire me from Rainbow Lodge because I used that movie And uh, my supervisor told me you're fired Talked to the director right now the director called me in his office. He said here you're showing a very violent movie Yeah, I was Do I know anything about do I know that book do I know that movie? I says, I don't know. I said be able to watch my sororities He said no, he says you want to go try you want to watch it at home? Yeah He says I'd like to watch that because somebody really really didn't want you watching showing that in the film So he took it home You know I'm going to go to the board about this. I you should be fired Okay, I go to the board So you took it to the board One of the Ronnie walkie-gees he was the chief at the time One of the best chiefs they ever had in wiki and he said and he I guess he uh, they went and seen him and he said well You know, it's been a totally different program since the only bob took over and there's been a lot of guys that sobered up Since he's been here. I would have to go and see and talk to him myself So he came and looked for me and he says what's going on with the movie? He's ready. How come you're showing that it's what I said is what the best trigger film I've ever seen as especially when you Smite down Smite yourself one of our biggest problems among among our people Is how we treat our women and how our women treats us?  Anyway, this happened about 1993 but I almost lost my job When it first came out 1994 From that time on So about six months later To a year later every treatment center in Ontario was using that as a trigger even non-native people are using So that's one of the first people I was using Because I saw there we go that's what I've been looking for All right, I don't know. Yeah, I might be off topic again. Well It's funny because like that kind of impact that ongoing impact That we all have is kind of captured in the next question Because the next question talks about Talks about vision like you had the vision to use this This video in a good way So same thing What is your vision for indigenous education over the last 10 years? I think a lot of people that are heading in that direction now I don't think I'd be the only one doing that but I saw as an example 150,000 kids having their language taken away from them and I saw 150,000 kids being taught how to hurt people because The way that the army trains killers In the army they use discipline and they use discipline with our love They use discipline in a very harsh way you follow the command under no circumstances Do you disobey it makes you separate from your spirit to be able to do something that's totally Alien to you. So that's how our kids were being taught Discipline with our love the other part was Correction through shame you should be ashamed of yourself.   He used seven and about seven other different languages to put that English together It wasn't a pure language And They were still using they're still learning how to use the new words that had been put into our language We had a language that was 13 000 years old that the youngest that could have been 13 000 years of knowledge as you're trying to embed it right into that language Saying things that you could not say in translation that had total total meaning you had The understanding of respect the understanding of how to use energy We lived in ceremony like me.  I don't want to see that big gun man You don't catch me whistle.    I lived in ceremony. You know my grandmother I don't know if you've you've learned this before through other people maybe art But uh nishinaabe that's who we are and um We become part of the big secret nishinaabe in our language means uh Man lowered here From the stars That's the nishinaabe means The original way of saying that was nishinaabe niece Nabe We come from the stars That is what that name implies So you're a great grandmother my grandmother When she heard thunder and she saw a lightning flashing and Heard that thunder she used to run for tobacco tobacco in the fire and pray Because she thought that was her relatives coming back to look for Because that's what she was told By other people that said when uh when when when our people come back to look for us You're going to hear that see that bright light And you're going to hear that sound of that uh that flying that flying house that flying machine You're going to hear that Be allowed noise when it comes into our space It's going to be a big flash Then you know our people are coming to get us So whenever she uh Heard the lightning she oh They'd make tobacco Thousands of years before when those relatives left us here That's what they told us you'll know we're coming and this is how you'll know we're coming So all these times all these years people Prayed they knew that they hadn't been abandoned here. They knew that somebody's going to come look for us Uh 21 years old when they jumped aboard that big flying saucer and I knew that I'm going to die I'm going to see before I die I've already seen one, but it wasn't too big I've seen three flying saucers With bobby and bronzy I saw three flying saucers coming out of the other one where the triangle kind of Yeah, so that's uh We became part of the cover-up UFOs have been covered up for years and years the government knows about the many things So that's why they don't ever Want us to be able to name who we are If the government always chooses what we're going to be called We were called natives Indian Aboriginal now we're called indigenous It wasn't us that chose that name As long as you don't call yourself the schnader That's that's why Most people don't even understand what shogunash means. We call the white people shogunash Those from offshore That's how we That's how we call them Those from offshore But very few people know what that word means in shogunash It's that We have those names for they even Wemtigwush Wemtigwush means uh A long time ago when the Jesuits were trying to teach our people about God They come too close to a village and Jesuits would be traveling by canoeing and they'd uh They'd see a village up ahead So one of them would go up in the front of the canoe and stand there and wave a cross Wave a wooden cross They talked about if you know, we let them see the cross.   He's waving a stick there. So that's what we call them Labors of the stick. So for this day Wemtigwush, which means we're waivers of the stick That's what we call French people waivers of the stick It's funny how things happening. Yeah. Oh, yeah so a lot of A lot of those things can be done within 10 years Do you reckon? I don't know Ask you a question How do you Discipline yourself or can you or do you Teach yourself how to hold a nine to five job? Like generally or like me as a person generally it's like It's just the ideas embedded I think once you're old enough to understand possibility what you could do After the fruits of that labor, I guess Because uh, I get it depends on the person really like the The group of people I grew up with would be more Not money interested As a motivation, but I'm doing this because this is what I do It's not it's not a job You know, okay, but this is this is a role I can do and I'm good at it Like right now if it was possible, I would do what I do for free other people are motivated by The four-car garage and you know, it's a it's a personal thing, right? It's like it's the same reason why I sent Selena on a two-month canoe trip I figure anybody could do something For 30 days every day It changed her lives And you'll never ever be the same again and I Got it to do it two ten two times 30 days I didn't do that but I mean I put her I put her and I left her kind of Vulnerable to be able to do it because she had to Okay, I took her away from Telephone took her away from That thing there took her away from that thing over there Put her into a place where she had to think Because when you're in the front of a canoe or in the back of a canoe you're alone Because if you're in the back of the canoe the person's back is turned to you and you're in the front of the canoe You're back is turned to the other person You're totally alone I try to be able to simulate or imitate what I've been through I try to give my kids what my grandfather did enough knowledge to be able to write my name To be able to do something the reason I the reason I asked that And you asked you answered the question Pretty well How I saw you you answered the question how I've saw you how I've seen you since I first Ever laid eyes on you When I first laid eyes on you I didn't know you were my child, but I knew you were uh A really great person and I was proud to be able to say hi to you I don't know what it was.   Does that make sense to you? You didn't seem like a nine to five And you didn't seem to care about impressing anybody but yourself You were very very very Centered with your kids It was unbelievable things. I went through when I did find out I was shocked because like I said even ca s. I told me you died and I thought wow, how could that be How could how could how could uh, how could chast be my kid? He's gone because it takes you a while to Even when you're drinking it takes you a long time to To let go of something and um to visualize It was it was actually paula fita first. I think I told you that fita told me I think I knew kid in town could be your kid And I said oh, yeah, I kind of blew her away because no that's impossible How could that be And then I guess fita talked to paula and paula. She's very very observant and um She we were a christmas. I think was a christmas party at this complex paula was there and uh, she saw you crossing the floor and she says you know That is your boy. I said, ah So no, no, that's your boy. I said, what makes you say that anyways maddie What makes you say that anyway? And she says well, she says all your kids walk the same way you do She said bronson james, even though he's not yours to bronson And lori for for for sure They both walk the same way and she says even the ones that aren't your kids that you raised they walk like And I said, yeah, she said yeah, she said that's your son. I don't know but I believed her I said, oh that's that's strange. So that's when we I think it was a little a little time after that we started talking about then I started to understand Yeah, somebody lied to me. But that's where the nine to five thing comes in. You're not a nine to five And I was so sure that I'm training a person without your money paula. She just signed up a person She she one of her downlines was going to quit on her yesterday And that person took another look at her uh her program That she's on in here And she decided she's going to stay on but She's so sure of it now. She's going to sign somebody else on so all the training I put into holly is starting to come into Provision because I told holly you're not a nine to five I said and you're not meant to be paid by the hour I said you're meant to have freedom in your life. And I said I can teach you how to do that So she's on her way Yeah, because it'll uh, it'll uh, it'll give me residual income If I can train people like that About three four other people like that. I'll have residual income I'll replace my income within another year. Okay I'll be able to Go live in mexico Where the real medicine is So that's why that's why I said when you talk more 10 years It depends on where people are going to start Like our reserve Our reserve is so far into the left side. Do they ever want to do that? They can't see what I see Maybe some of them can see what I see, but don't forget. I was raised in it Raised in ceremony and I've uh, I've got a pretty good education. Great. It's not bad Yeah, I've done more with great aid than most people have done with I've put them in college in college, you call me, just in the studying that I've done, the books I've read Unbelievable. Uh, to be able to find out about uh, Treatment and how to how to be able to go in the opposite direction in treatment to have that faith to do that I took at least 10 uh, 10 psychology books Reading, reading, and I went back to have that courage to be able to do it. And plus the teachings of my grandfather you know to That's why I'm trying to put that book together. I'll give you some example of something. I got some over here Just to give you an idea Remembering the dream they say that when we are on mother earth, we are actually Experiencing everything in a dream. So when we dream we are in a dream within a dream My first recollection of my dream was in a trappers cabin I must have been two and a half years old I was sitting in a cabin in the glow of a lamp light My grandma was making muckasins and telling me a story It was wintertime and very cold inside The smell of wood burning in the stove and the sweet smell of smoke Ten leather is forever ingrained in my mind in my memory And also the howling of the wolves talking to the moon Help me help make the cabin feel safe and cozy My life at the time was very simple and exciting Some evening my grandma my grandpa came in the cabin in the evening driving daylight Diving daylight, okay, and sometimes I came he came in after dark As I stated earlier, I was two and a half years old and I already had a routine and a menu for each day my day started by Putting on my foot my footwear and going outside to check on the weather every morning because that's what my grandpa did I was having a wonderful life with my grandparents and my dog pal When you are small and the two people is all you're aware of you don't miss anyone And the three of you plus dog is all you know, you're never lonely or bored As I said earlier life is exciting. I had a routine. I was two and a half years old and I dressed myself I had my custom made grandma woolen socks custom made thick woolen cap and scarf my winter boots Were it with snap-shut buckles that fit perfect Wool pants with suspenders Winter jacket made out of smoke tan leather Deers hide lined with fox fur or rabbit fur custom pitted long johns My grandma said the clothes had to fit right so that they would be warm When we traveled I was spitted into a beaver fur homemade bag I was better equipped than just about any Anyone whose picture I saw much later on in the kids magazine and Eaton's catalog I had two toys a homemade soft doll that I shared with My custom made bed and a homemade Airplane made out of wood birch bark and cord cardboard I had a little cover with my emergency rations custom made of course They contain raisins hard candy maple sugar hard candy a big can of honey and apples My travel sleigh was made of seasoned dry cedar with ash runners for speed It also came with a dog harness so pal could pull me on the ice I also had my own Miniature acts just like grandpa's I don't remember But my grandma told me that I had told her that I had to have an axe so I could help split wood Two and a half years For the trapping season we lived in a trappers cabin in Shackwall Lake at the time I knew the area as a Chicago mall And on end of the lake Our cabin was a log cabin about 16 feet by 20 feet and it Had one room a very homey comfortable place to hang out I had a little bed. I must have been five feet long and three feet wide It was laid out with feather mattress and a feather blanket with a woolen top cover I didn't know it at the time, but I was a very comfortable and safe kid and my grandparents were sober Hardworking people I don't know how lucky I was because drunkenness and alcoholism was the identity of my people at the time We weren't allowed out to reserve to work or allowed to hunt or on most reserves My grandparents weren't what you were considered civilized Which meant they still looked at the land as theirs and no one had the right to tell them where to live will work And really no one had the right to own land, but here put here by the creator Yeah Some place some place will be different I see a lot of our natural resources are going to be going from the reserve I I didn't believe I was somebody told me that they're Selling a pickerel on the reserve. I didn't believe I'd done a walk in the bobby's zone Yeah, we're selling pickerel in the reserve. So and then when uh It was uh one of my white friends That was telling me that bobby had taken 24 pickerel in a week out of out of vervein river vervein river goods taken a net and taken 5400 over 2400 people I said that's that's impossible. I said how could people how could the people are not and allow him to do something Holy catfish How did my grandkids been learned how to fish?  So thank you


So, dear learners we are continuing our discussion on unit 5 that is organizing and this is the last part of the video and this part is also based on the part 2 because in part 2 we discussed about the organizational structure of three kinds of organization no line organization line and stop and functional here we shall discuss three types of organization structure. One is committee organization second one is project organization and the third one is matrix organization ok. So, first let us start with committee organization a every organization though individuals will work in an organization, but those individual works need to be coordinated and in a functional type of organization what happens the marketing department will have this marketing perspective finance department will have the finance perspective. So, there is a call to a functional supremacy each and every function will try to advocate their supremacy and in the process what happens the functional conflicts develop and when the functional conflicts develop ultimately that disturbs the achievement of the organizational objective. So, to a great extent committee kind of organization formation of committees can help in minimizing those conflicts it can reconcile various differences and it can work out a concerted course of action. So, what is a committee? Committee is a group of two or more appointed nominated or elected persons to consider to discuss to decide and to recommend or maybe to report on some issues or matters related to the functioning of an organization and the committee will be given that assignment that this is a committee on manpower planning this committee will take care of the various aspects of manpower planning and will recommend certain measures to the organization. So, this is good is not it still we are supposed to discuss the merits in an organized manner. So, what is the first merit as the given in the unit it is better and balanced decisions one person taking a decision may not be true may not be good may not be effective a number of persons taking a decision different perspectives will come. So, better and balanced decisions can be expected as committees consider the problems for more than one point of view different views emerge. Effective communication can be achieved as members can easily and effectively communicate their ideas and viewpoints with freeness and frankness and this is the responsibility of the sermon of the committee that the different views of the different participants should be encouraged to emerge and those need to be discussed and then ultimately it needs to be concluded. So, it promotes ideas as emerging during the process of interaction during the process of discussion amongst the members. Still there could be certain demerits of committees what could be the demerits it consumes excessive amount of time one person taking a decision quickly can take a decision committee might take one meeting might take several meetings. So, it at the same time because of these repeated meetings and all these things that people might lose interest also excessive openness are involved in convening and holding committee meetings because of that what happens the different committee meetings have got certain opportunity cost it becomes time consuming cost increases. There are large number of members in a committee and so it is very difficult to maintain secrecy of the issues suppose committee is supposed to discuss within the committee only certain issues. The number of members are there someone might leak some information some crucial information to outsiders that might jeopardize the functioning of the organization because before taking the decision the information gets leaked. So, committee has got the advantages at the same time committee has got certain disadvantages also, but despite these disadvantages committees are quite helpful in functioning of an organization. Now, let us discuss the other form of organization project organization. So, dear learners we all know about say lower swan city right hydroelectric project we know about Kapili hydroelectric project these are all projects. So, these are all projects of what these are all projects of an organization called NEPCO right notice electric power corporation limited. So, NEPCO is an organization within that organization each and every project side there is a project organization it is not it there is a project organization. So, that project organization will be responsible for that particular project project one project two like that. So, this gives a kind of different challenges each project team has specialist in different fields suppose each project will be having say civil engineer electrical engineer mechanical engineer and this type of structure is temporary in national project is commissioned the project may be withdrawn is not it and designed to perform a specific task with the help of specialist drawn from various departments. What are the merits it can be structured as per the requirement of the project project is very large. So, you can deploy more people project is small you can they put small number of people it makes use of specialized knowledge and skill wherever required demerits the project manager faces problems in dealing with the specialist from different fields. Suppose the project manager is a chemical engineer and there is an electrical engineer under him for that particular project the electrical activities right need to be taken care of. So, an electrical engineer is there. So, the electrical engineer knows his discipline the chemical engineer might hide it difficult to coordinate the activities of the electrical engineer is not it. So, specialist are there. So, dealing with all the specialists that are generally sometimes find is difficult this is what making also sometimes becomes difficult for the project manager who may be pressurized by the specialist. So, that could be a problem. The third type of organization is matrix organization under these types of structure there are functional managers and project managers. Suppose I gave you in the example of say NIPCO. In NIPCO there is a chief engineer electrical in the project in engineer project also there is an electrical engineer. At the same time in the project there is a project manager also. That electrical engineer in that particular project might receive command from the from his respective project manager at the same time he might receive command from the chief engineer electrical who is sitting at the head quarter. So, functional managers are in charge of specialist resources such as production quality control inventory marketing finance engineering as I have given the example. So, project managers are in charge of one or more projects could be. What are the merits it utilizes the benefits of both functional organization and technical specialization. Electrical engineer he is a technical person chief engineer electrical he knows better his more experience we can avail his experiences. At the same time project level also we can avail the experiences of the electrical engineer who is stationed at the project it is flexible. It allows better and quick decisions. Otherwise at the project level if we do not have this kind of structure we will not be able to take decisions at the project level. It improves communication and interaction among project units and functional heads it leads to better coordination. However, this is essential, but it has got certain disadvantages also. What is this it does not follow the principle of unity of command as I have stated. Does electrical engineer will be governed by the guidance of the project manager at the same time he is likely to be governed by the chief engineer electrical who is sitting at the headquarter. But at the same time this is a deficiency without this with this deficiency we will have to co-live. Quick decisions are not possible at all times. We will have to evolve mechanism of making this first. But being we having this limitation should not deter us in having a matrix type of organization because this is a requirement of complex types of organization. So, this is an organization structure which has to be there which has to be in existence in complex type of organizations. More specially in project type of organization more specially in marketing organization suppose Hindustan Unilever or say Godres. Godres company has got its printers equipment. Godres company has got its locking divisions. Godres company has got its fast moving consumer goods different divisions. So, in order to coordinate with all these divisions they might also go they might be required to go for this matrix type of organization. So, they are learners you go to the material you have gone to the videos possibly you will find it quite easier to understand and still you will be asked some multiple choice questions on this. Suppose the merits of matrix organization include the following and you are supposed to identify which one is the merit of matrix type of organization. To that extent you will have to know the merits of matrix organization. You will have to understand the merits of matrix organization. So, enjoy reading. Thank you.


We had hoped that the country would develop and would raise as a nation. But in the period that we've been living as a nation, as an independent nation, these things have not been realized, which had affected the value of the independent day of South Sudan. And therefore people feel frustrated, people feel hopeless, and people still demand a mosh from their government. And that's why I see that in this coming independent day, many people will not be celebrating the independent day, including me. And this is because our expectations and also our hopes have not been achieved by our government.