Video - Inspired by the Land

Video Transcript:
Traditional Worldview

Wes Fine Day, Elder Sweetgrass First Nation
It seems like we start to relate to things based on how we've created our own reality. You know, the bottom line for many people, yo u know, they see something and they have to figure out how to make money from it.

Jean E. Sonmor, Painter
And sadly the first colonists of this county didn't always respect what was here, the brilliance that was here, in the peoples that had lived here for thousands of years.

Judy Bear, Elder Sweetgrass First Nation
When you speak Cree the language begins from the land, you know, you cannot communicate unless you have the words that come from the land.

Wes Fine Day, Elder Sweetgrass First Nation
There is a duality to all things, but there is no such thing as it doesn't matter, or it doesn't have an impact or an effect, everything has an impact.

Sharon Butala, Writer
See we came here with the idea we could fix this up, we could change it, it wasn't worth keeping the way it was, we'd make it better and so we never got to know it in the first place, and so it wasn't hard to change it, and now a couple hundred years later, we are getting a little bit wiser, we are beginning to realize that maybe we were wrong, way back when, and I think the first thing that has to happen is a shift in consciousness about the meaning of land.

Trevor Herriot, Writer
Because at one time we were aboriginal people too, we were indigenous people, we were pre-agricultural, we had religions and spirituality that embedded us more clearly into the world. Those things are in our genes and our history, as well, and by encountering First Peoples here with respect and not in any inquisitive way or colonial way we have a chance of learning about our own past and seeing where we can all go now together.

Wes Fine Day, Elder Sweetgrass First Nation
And we are all apart of the earth. The earth governs us, we don't own the earth, we don't govern it. Everything has an impact, there is no such thing as it doesn't matter.