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Here we are in
m'chigeeng first nation!

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[cheering & applauding]

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An anishinaabe community
in the heart of manitoulin,

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The middle of lake huron,

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The centre of
the great lakes,

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The heart of the turtle.

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[cheering & applauding]

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In many indigenous
creation stories,

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North america is
a giant turtle.

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Being a man of science,
I was dubious.

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But I've seen these
illustrations of

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North america as a turtle,
and it works.

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Alaska is one
of the feet.

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Newfoundland-labrador
is the other one.

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Perhaps most convincing,
I tried to figure out

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Where the
butthole would be.

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[laughing]

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It's new mexico.

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That would explain
why all the aliens

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Take their probes there.

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-[laughing]
-I'm sold!

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But manitoulin
island is big.

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Manitoulin island is the
largest freshwater island

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In the world.

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This island has
more than 100

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Inland freshwater lakes.

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And a lot of them
have islands.

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And then you'll
find ponds on-

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It's like a geographical
turducken.

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[laughing]

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I think that's an
idea for a new meal.

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You can call it
turducken manitoulin.

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It's a duck inside a chicken
inside a turkey on a turtle.

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[laughing]

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When you grow up in a
small town in newfoundland,

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You see that people have
a sense of humour

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About hard times.

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Check, check.

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I turned that into a
career and hit the road.

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[mc]
mr. Jonny harris!

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Now I'm on a mission to find
the funny in the places

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You'd least expect it,

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Canada's struggling
small towns.

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Towns that are
against the ropes,

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But hanging
in there...

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Still laughing in the
face of adversity.

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This is m'chigeeng
first nation.

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♪

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♪

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Manitoulin island is big,

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But I didn't realize
how big it was.

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In fact,
when I got here,

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I wasn't sure I
was in the right area

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Until I looked up on the
hill and I saw that sign,

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The likes of which I've
only ever seen

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In hollywood,
california.

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[laughing]

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And looking up
at that sign,

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Never in my life
would I have guessed

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M'chigeeng
starts with an 'm'.

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[laughing]

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This island has provided the
anishinaabe people with

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Ample opportunities
for trade.

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It became an
economic hub.

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However,
throughout the 1800s,

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Colonization ended a once

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Self-sustaining way of life.

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I got to speak to a woman
who told me m'chigeeng,

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Unlike a turducken,
still has guts.

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[laughing]

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The youngest ever elected
chief of this community,

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Chief linda debassige.

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[cheering & applauding]

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Pre-contact.
We utilized this area.

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Living and just being
sustained off

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Of the natural
resources.

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But having the ability to
trade with other nations.

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Indigenous people from all
over the great lakes region

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Would come here to
manitoulin island

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To trade for fish or,

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Or traditional
medicines and,

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Of course,
maple syrup.

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Our people were
mass producers of

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Maple syrup and
maple sugar.

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We would be producing
anywhere from

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80,000 pounds of
maple sugar to

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A half a million pounds
of maple sugar a year.

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That's like 40 elephants.

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Half a million pounds.

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That's 40 elephants,
she said.

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I don't know if that's a
common unit of measurement.

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[laughing]

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Linda said the anishinaabe
way of life and

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Trades thrived up
until colonialism.

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There were elements of
peaceful coexistence,

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Meaning we don't interfere
with their life and

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Their society
and their ways,

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And they don't
interfere with ours.

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After the war of 1812,
the mindset of living in

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Coexistence with
one another shifted.

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They wanted to open up the
lands for further settlers to

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Do farming and bring
more people over.

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And then came treaties
and policies that would

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Severely impact
indigenous people.

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And the reserves were
created in m'chigeeng.

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We weren't allowed to
practice our culture

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And traditions.

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And we were also not
legally allowed to

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Sell anything like
our maple sugar,

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As we did before.

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We would need to get
permission to leave

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The boundaries
of the reserve.

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That treaty is
disputed to this day.

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And there's a lot of
theories on

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How this treaty was
ever affected.

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And a lot of people suggest
that the language used

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Did not accurately translate
to anishinaabe,

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Particularly because
all the language

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Dealt with
land ownership.

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We did not have a sense
of land ownership at all.

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-Like that did not exist.
-Right.

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It was stewardship.

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This will sound like
a harebrained analogy,

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But when I was thinking
about it, it was-

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It's almost like you're
having a beer

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In your local bar,

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And a tourist shows up
and asks for the bathroom.

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You're like, "yes,
sure it's over there."

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And then
20 minutes later,

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You're knocking on
the door, you're like,

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"ah, I gotta
get in there."

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And they're like, "ah,
well, no, you can't.

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I asked for the bathroom.
You said, sure.

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I own it now."

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[laughing]

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You're like,
"well, this sucks,

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I guess I'm gonna leave."
and they're like, "well,

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You're gonna need a
permission slip for that."

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[laughing]

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But linda said that
things are changing now,

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And changing now
more than ever.

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Even though all of those
things were put on us

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Outside of our
control or permission,

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Our community has
become so resilient.

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There's a lot of new
entrepreneurs,

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New businesses.

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There's a new energy,
literally, green energy,

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You see the windmills
up on the hills.

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There's new, interesting
schools here,

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Post-secondary
schools.

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There's the weengbush
film institute.

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Actually, funnily enough,
there was a screenwriter

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In los angeles that I
went to theatre school

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With in newfoundland
who taught a class at

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Your film institute
here in m'chigeeng.

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Now, you tell me,
does that mean

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Big turtle or small world?

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[laughing]

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♪

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We took the responsibility
of helping to empower

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Our people, and that's
what we do today.

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The people of
m'chigeeng...

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Are, are strong,
proud, progressive...

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And still here.

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You know what I think?

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I think I wouldn't want
to run against you

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In an election.

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Chief linda,
I know for a fact

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She is dedicated
to her job.

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She told me about when she
gave birth to her daughter,

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And at the same time,

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Attended a
community meeting.

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We had a meeting
scheduled with

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Indigenous
services canada.

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It was to get a water
line to our community.

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There was no way I was going
to miss a meeting and so,

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I met with them online

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While I was in labour
at the hospital.

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She was literally in the bed

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In the hospital

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In a meeting on zoom.

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[laughing]

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I said, "what was the
meeting about?" she said,

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"town water." I said,
"let me guess, it broke?"

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[laughing]

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Did they not tell from
the camera that

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You were in
the hospital?

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I had a virtual
background,

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And I had a
shawl over me.

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So, you didn't see
my hospital gear.

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Whenever I had a
contraction or labour pain,

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I just simply turned off
my video and

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Allowed the conversation
to continue.

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She said she wasn't
gonna miss the meeting.

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I said, "even though you're
squeezing out a kid?!"

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[laughing]

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Talk about a new person
has entered the chat.

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[laughing]

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Finished that meeting
just after 5pm.

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I gave birth to my daughter
about an hour later.

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I think her next
election campaign poster,

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It should say,
"linda debassige,

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When it comes
to her people,

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She will
push, push, push!"

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[laughing & applauding]

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♪

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M'chigeeng is also
home to kenjgewin teg,

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A post-secondary
institution.

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I went over to the campus,
and I sat down with

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Beverly roy and
wayne trudeau.

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[cheering & applauding]

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♪

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Kenjgewin teg offers a wide
variety of programs from

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Trades to a nursing school
to undergraduate degrees.

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But a big part of the
curriculum there is to

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Reclaim cultural
knowledge.

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We really bring in our
anishinaabe culture,

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Our language, our identity
into students' learning.

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You'll see different
structures and tools that

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We use to really
engage our students

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In reclaiming some of that
back through song,

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Dance, culture,
history, teachings.

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We're connecting them
about who they are,

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What they want to
do with their life,

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Finding some meaning,
finding some purpose.

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And even though they're with
us just for a short time,

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We're hoping to instill
that little spark.

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To learn who
you are is...

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Something- actually I
can't really speak to it,

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I don't know
much about it.

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I went to theatre school,
really that's the opposite.

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I learned to pretend
to be other people.

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[laughing]

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Because the school is
still relatively small,

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They can really focus on
the individual student.

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And they'll guide students
in creating a bundle,

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Which is a collection
of objects,

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Things that help
connect somebody to

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Their spirituality
and purpose.

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Bundle items, it could
come from nature,

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It could be crafted from
materials collected from

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Nature as well.

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But it could
also be trinkets,

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Things that were left
to you that have

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A really deep meaning.

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Maybe you've got
something that you think

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Someone else would
benefit from more,

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And you could give it to
them, if you can let it go.

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Sometimes it's hard
to let things go.

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And sometimes you can't.

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Sometimes they
don't let you.

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At least if it's
anything like my bundle.

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Like, my bundle
included a landline...

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[laughing]

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Along with the cable
and internet, and I...

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00:10:11,345 --> 00:10:13,311
I told them, I said,
"I, I don't even-

257
00:10:13,446 --> 00:10:14,445
I don't need a landline.

258
00:10:14,514 --> 00:10:16,247
I don't even own
a landline phone."

259
00:10:16,249 --> 00:10:17,882
They were like, "well,
it's part of your bundle."

260
00:10:17,884 --> 00:10:20,284
[laughing]

261
00:10:20,354 --> 00:10:24,856
♪

262
00:10:24,925 --> 00:10:27,626
♪

263
00:10:27,761 --> 00:10:30,662
When I found out I wasn't
the only tv host in town,

264
00:10:30,797 --> 00:10:33,264
I knew I had to
hunt someone down...

265
00:10:33,333 --> 00:10:35,600
And come up
with a joke.

266
00:10:35,602 --> 00:10:37,602
What do deers,
ducks and an

267
00:10:37,604 --> 00:10:40,605
Outdoorsman tv show
all have in common?

268
00:10:40,607 --> 00:10:43,608
They've all been shot
by neil debassige,

269
00:10:43,677 --> 00:10:45,677
From fuel the
fire television,

270
00:10:45,812 --> 00:10:48,346
Neil and darci debassige.

271
00:10:48,481 --> 00:10:52,483
[cheering & applauding]

272
00:10:52,519 --> 00:10:54,018
They make a tv show-

273
00:10:54,021 --> 00:10:56,321
It might have some guns
and some shooting,

274
00:10:56,456 --> 00:10:59,424
But 'fuel the fire' is
truly a family show.

275
00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:01,693
As a kid,
I grew up with

276
00:11:01,828 --> 00:11:03,761
Mutual of omaha's
wild kingdom,

277
00:11:03,830 --> 00:11:06,731
Lorne greene's wild america,
all of those shows

278
00:11:06,867 --> 00:11:10,701
That was what I aspired to
be was in nature.

279
00:11:10,703 --> 00:11:12,704
And being an
educator and

280
00:11:12,839 --> 00:11:14,773
A hunting and
fishing expert,

281
00:11:14,908 --> 00:11:17,442
He wanted to pass
on his knowledge.

282
00:11:17,577 --> 00:11:19,977
And so, we forged ahead
and tried to start a

283
00:11:20,047 --> 00:11:22,981
Television program knowing
nothing about tv.

284
00:11:22,983 --> 00:11:25,450
Without a crew, especially
in the early days

285
00:11:25,519 --> 00:11:28,586
Of the show, neil put his
family to work-

286
00:11:28,722 --> 00:11:30,321
His wife, diane,

287
00:11:30,390 --> 00:11:32,524
His daughters,
darci and aspen-

288
00:11:32,659 --> 00:11:35,926
They all got put to work
operating the cameras and

289
00:11:35,962 --> 00:11:38,729
Lugging supplies and
getting gear and

290
00:11:38,765 --> 00:11:41,031
Co-starring on the show.

291
00:11:41,068 --> 00:11:43,868
[whispering] hey folks.
It's September 5th.

292
00:11:43,870 --> 00:11:46,070
Darci and I are
gonna go for a walk.

293
00:11:46,139 --> 00:11:48,739
We did see a decent
buck the other night.

294
00:11:48,775 --> 00:11:51,008
Because of the nature
of where we live,

295
00:11:51,044 --> 00:11:53,944
It makes it a little bit
easier to be a participant.

296
00:11:53,980 --> 00:11:55,947
And I'm going to look back
when I'm an old man-

297
00:11:56,082 --> 00:11:59,484
Having that memory
is priceless.

298
00:11:59,619 --> 00:12:01,286
[whispering]
awesome, I thought

299
00:12:01,421 --> 00:12:02,620
They were gonna
bump into us!

300
00:12:02,756 --> 00:12:03,688
Me too!

301
00:12:03,823 --> 00:12:05,290
I thought they were
gonna come right at us.

302
00:12:05,425 --> 00:12:08,359
Neil's family is obviously
the fuel to his fire.

303
00:12:08,495 --> 00:12:09,828
But that's tricky, right?

304
00:12:09,830 --> 00:12:13,498
Like your family is not the
most renewable fuel and,

305
00:12:13,567 --> 00:12:15,800
As employees, they are
impossible to fire.

306
00:12:15,836 --> 00:12:18,470
[laughing]

307
00:12:18,605 --> 00:12:19,970
My earliest
memories...

308
00:12:20,006 --> 00:12:22,841
Were probably being
in the deer stand and,

309
00:12:22,976 --> 00:12:25,042
Dad's recording me,
and we're eating chips,

310
00:12:25,078 --> 00:12:25,910
And I have to be like,
okay,

311
00:12:25,979 --> 00:12:26,911
We have to be
quiet for this one.

312
00:12:26,947 --> 00:12:28,813
And then you can just
hear me chomping.

313
00:12:28,815 --> 00:12:29,647
[laughing]

314
00:12:29,783 --> 00:12:31,816
Kids around here,
they are wood savvy.

315
00:12:31,852 --> 00:12:34,118
They learn lessons when
they go to the city.

316
00:12:34,187 --> 00:12:36,454
It's like, "oh,
no darci, honey.

317
00:12:36,589 --> 00:12:38,990
You, you can't take
your compound bow.

318
00:12:38,992 --> 00:12:40,525
This is a petting zoo."

319
00:12:40,594 --> 00:12:43,060
[laughing]

320
00:12:43,096 --> 00:12:45,630
♪

321
00:12:45,699 --> 00:12:47,799
Neil, he cooked up
some fish for us.

322
00:12:47,934 --> 00:12:49,067
It was some bass.

323
00:12:49,202 --> 00:12:51,936
Neil caught it
earlier that day.

324
00:12:52,005 --> 00:12:54,138
♪

325
00:12:54,174 --> 00:12:55,940
They're frying up the bass,
and at one point I was like,

326
00:12:55,942 --> 00:12:57,642
"oh, so, you know,
what other kinds of fish

327
00:12:57,711 --> 00:12:59,077
Can you catch
in this lake?"

328
00:12:59,079 --> 00:13:00,745
And these two, they give
each other a look like,

329
00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:03,480
"oh, well. Where do
we even start?"

330
00:13:03,517 --> 00:13:05,483
[laughing]

331
00:13:05,552 --> 00:13:06,551
And darci looks at her
dad and goes,

332
00:13:06,620 --> 00:13:08,786
"well,
let's go seasonally."

333
00:13:08,855 --> 00:13:11,622
And they start rattling off
all the fish that

334
00:13:11,691 --> 00:13:14,025
You can catch in the
lake by season.

335
00:13:14,027 --> 00:13:16,760
-[laughing]
-bass, perch, walleye.

336
00:13:16,797 --> 00:13:19,697
I feel like these two,
they're not just family...

337
00:13:19,699 --> 00:13:21,566
They're fisherman's friends.

338
00:13:21,635 --> 00:13:25,436
[laughing & applauding]

339
00:13:32,478 --> 00:13:34,846
[indistinct conversation]

340
00:13:34,848 --> 00:13:37,248
You know, I found out this
little bit of country is a

341
00:13:37,383 --> 00:13:40,184
Little bit rock and roll
when I met a woman

342
00:13:40,187 --> 00:13:43,788
Who carries a torch
for heavy metal.

343
00:13:43,790 --> 00:13:46,090
I talked with welder
and artist,

344
00:13:46,159 --> 00:13:47,959
Kathryn corbiere.

345
00:13:48,028 --> 00:13:50,961
[cheering & applauding]

346
00:13:50,997 --> 00:13:52,931
Welding was like something

347
00:13:53,066 --> 00:13:54,465
I wanted to do just to
become a welder.

348
00:13:54,501 --> 00:13:56,000
Like there's so many
people in my family

349
00:13:56,002 --> 00:13:57,302
That are trades workers.

350
00:13:57,304 --> 00:13:59,670
So, I thought was following
in their footsteps and then...

351
00:13:59,739 --> 00:14:01,472
Got my tickets,
and then couldn't find

352
00:14:01,474 --> 00:14:03,608
A job around here,
and then...

353
00:14:03,677 --> 00:14:05,009
Started developing art.

354
00:14:05,011 --> 00:14:06,878
Most people, they want
to go into the arts

355
00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:08,580
And then there's not
a lot of money.

356
00:14:08,715 --> 00:14:11,115
She's the only person who's
like, "I learned a trade,

357
00:14:11,184 --> 00:14:13,618
But I mean,
in the end, you know,

358
00:14:13,687 --> 00:14:15,887
I had to follow my
passion and creativity.

359
00:14:15,889 --> 00:14:17,188
You got to pay
the bills."

360
00:14:17,190 --> 00:14:18,289
[laughing]

361
00:14:18,358 --> 00:14:20,892
Kathryn's most famous
piece sits on the

362
00:14:21,027 --> 00:14:23,661
Floor of the
toronto stock exchange.

363
00:14:23,697 --> 00:14:26,230
They essentially said,
"can you design something

364
00:14:26,233 --> 00:14:28,966
Targeting like trade,
indigenous relations with

365
00:14:29,002 --> 00:14:31,302
Non-indigenous peoples and
the history of canada?"

366
00:14:31,338 --> 00:14:33,104
[crackling]

367
00:14:33,106 --> 00:14:35,907
So she made this
huge steel piece,

368
00:14:36,042 --> 00:14:38,776
And it's got to be about
13 feet high and

369
00:14:38,812 --> 00:14:40,044
At least as wide.

370
00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:43,181
She said the sculpture
itself is 500 pounds,

371
00:14:43,316 --> 00:14:47,785
And it sits on a limestone
base that's 1500 pounds.

372
00:14:47,787 --> 00:14:50,721
All in all, around
2,000 pounds...

373
00:14:50,790 --> 00:14:52,790
Or as you guys might
say, half an elephant.

374
00:14:52,826 --> 00:14:55,326
[laughing]

375
00:14:55,461 --> 00:14:57,528
♪

376
00:14:57,530 --> 00:14:59,197
She said she drove it
down to the

377
00:14:59,332 --> 00:15:02,767
Toronto stock exchange on
a trailer with her pickup.

378
00:15:02,769 --> 00:15:05,903
She's driving it down in the
thick of toronto traffic

379
00:15:05,972 --> 00:15:09,340
In the middle of the
financial district.

380
00:15:09,476 --> 00:15:11,675
And she's trying to
keep out of the way,

381
00:15:11,711 --> 00:15:12,977
And there's are
people honking at her.

382
00:15:13,112 --> 00:15:15,379
The plan was to lift it in
with a couple of cranes,

383
00:15:15,448 --> 00:15:17,748
And then the
cranes break down.

384
00:15:17,817 --> 00:15:20,084
She gets her,
her brother-in-law and

385
00:15:20,153 --> 00:15:22,353
A couple of guys from
his boxing gym,

386
00:15:22,355 --> 00:15:25,022
And the operators of the
cranes that didn't work,

387
00:15:25,091 --> 00:15:27,558
They jump in, and they all
get these straps under the,

388
00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:29,427
Under the base and
they're lifting.

389
00:15:29,562 --> 00:15:31,162
You can see pictures
of these guys

390
00:15:31,164 --> 00:15:33,530
Shuffling this
limestone base along.

391
00:15:33,566 --> 00:15:35,199
It's a pretty
cool story.

392
00:15:35,335 --> 00:15:37,568
And kathryn's
pretty cool, herself.

393
00:15:37,570 --> 00:15:39,437
Kathryn's a pretty
cool customer.

394
00:15:39,572 --> 00:15:41,372
Like at one point I
tried to make a joke,

395
00:15:41,374 --> 00:15:43,073
I was like, "oh, listen,
kathryn," I was like,

396
00:15:43,109 --> 00:15:44,508
"next time you're
in toronto,

397
00:15:44,577 --> 00:15:47,045
And you're looking for some
strong muscle guys..."

398
00:15:47,180 --> 00:15:48,846
And she just
looked at me very

399
00:15:48,915 --> 00:15:50,982
Coolly and said,
"give you a call?"

400
00:15:51,117 --> 00:15:53,084
[laughing]

401
00:15:53,086 --> 00:15:55,186
So I'll do just like
a little, tiny one.

402
00:15:55,255 --> 00:15:56,253
-Yeah?
-So you can see.

403
00:15:56,323 --> 00:15:57,488
And then you'll go next.

404
00:15:57,490 --> 00:16:00,158
So we were gonna do
some mig welding.

405
00:16:00,293 --> 00:16:01,392
When you get good at it,

406
00:16:01,527 --> 00:16:03,828
It creates this nice
beading pattern.

407
00:16:03,897 --> 00:16:06,831
Welders are super
into this bead stuff.

408
00:16:06,966 --> 00:16:08,333
Very cool.

409
00:16:08,468 --> 00:16:09,933
So you want them to
kind of be visually,

410
00:16:09,970 --> 00:16:11,735
Aesthetically pleasing.

411
00:16:11,771 --> 00:16:13,805
On instagram, she's got
people commenting like,

412
00:16:13,940 --> 00:16:16,007
"oh yeah, those are
some great beads."

413
00:16:16,142 --> 00:16:17,207
Comments were like,

414
00:16:17,343 --> 00:16:19,010
"those beads
are like sexy,"

415
00:16:19,145 --> 00:16:20,445
And there's just a lot of
"sexy" describing

416
00:16:20,447 --> 00:16:22,880
About welding beads.
"sexy af."

417
00:16:22,949 --> 00:16:26,084
"your beads are sexy af,"
one person wrote.

418
00:16:26,219 --> 00:16:27,652
-[laughing]
-right?

419
00:16:27,654 --> 00:16:29,020
Which we all know means

420
00:16:29,089 --> 00:16:31,222
Your beads are sexy and fun.

421
00:16:31,224 --> 00:16:32,823
[laughing]

422
00:16:32,859 --> 00:16:34,559
And then I
gave it a go.

423
00:16:34,694 --> 00:16:36,160
[laughing]

424
00:16:39,032 --> 00:16:42,800
Oh my god!
It's brutal.

425
00:16:42,935 --> 00:16:46,370
It looks awful,
it was terrible.

426
00:16:46,439 --> 00:16:48,506
It looked like somebody
broke a thermometer and

427
00:16:48,508 --> 00:16:50,842
Just sort of
flicked it at...

428
00:16:50,977 --> 00:16:53,277
No technical merit,
a lot of artistic.

429
00:16:53,413 --> 00:16:55,379
I'm like the jackson
pollock of welding.

430
00:16:55,382 --> 00:16:57,181
[laughing]

431
00:16:57,316 --> 00:16:59,250
It gave me so much more
of an appreciation

432
00:16:59,385 --> 00:17:01,185
Of what she does.

433
00:17:01,221 --> 00:17:03,121
Like, her piece
at the tsx,

434
00:17:03,256 --> 00:17:05,990
It depicts a piece...

435
00:17:06,059 --> 00:17:08,126
Of birch bark.

436
00:17:08,261 --> 00:17:10,394
And birch bark was the
material used to

437
00:17:10,397 --> 00:17:14,799
Make canoes and pails,
sap pails,

438
00:17:14,934 --> 00:17:19,536
The very tools once used
to carry maple sugar,

439
00:17:19,572 --> 00:17:23,841
The anishinaabe's
greatest trading resource.

440
00:17:23,877 --> 00:17:26,611
And she said the curvature
of the bark represents

441
00:17:26,613 --> 00:17:29,547
A turn away from
historical events,

442
00:17:29,682 --> 00:17:33,117
A turn towards a
better time, change.

443
00:17:33,153 --> 00:17:37,955
And today, right next
to the tsx stock ticker,

444
00:17:37,957 --> 00:17:40,892
Stands this great symbol

445
00:17:41,027 --> 00:17:42,894
Of indigenous trade.

446
00:17:43,029 --> 00:17:45,162
So yeah, sexy af.

447
00:17:45,231 --> 00:17:47,264
[laughing]

448
00:17:47,333 --> 00:17:50,167
[applauding]

449
00:17:54,541 --> 00:17:57,074
Finally, I got to take
part in a bit of a

450
00:17:57,143 --> 00:18:00,311
Thursday night
m'chigeeng tradition...

451
00:18:00,313 --> 00:18:02,479
With the rainbow ringers.

452
00:18:02,515 --> 00:18:03,914
I met two sisters,

453
00:18:03,983 --> 00:18:06,450
Tiffany debassige and
daisey hayward.

454
00:18:06,519 --> 00:18:08,485
[cheering & applauding]

455
00:18:11,224 --> 00:18:14,926
Horseshoes, you play with
a teammate, a partner.

456
00:18:14,928 --> 00:18:16,327
This is the way I shoot.

457
00:18:16,396 --> 00:18:17,995
You got to find your
comfortable spot.

458
00:18:18,031 --> 00:18:19,530
Yeah,
and then I just...

459
00:18:19,566 --> 00:18:21,064
Shoot like that.

460
00:18:21,066 --> 00:18:22,233
Daisy and tiffany
filled me in on

461
00:18:22,368 --> 00:18:23,934
Some of the
lingo they use.

462
00:18:24,069 --> 00:18:25,603
So, you take a shot
and there's all these

463
00:18:25,672 --> 00:18:27,338
Weird names
for different-

464
00:18:27,407 --> 00:18:29,573
You could get a
"kiss and a miss".

465
00:18:29,609 --> 00:18:31,676
-Oh, nice one, nice one.
-So that's a "kiss and a miss".

466
00:18:31,678 --> 00:18:35,679
Or, you could get a woody.

467
00:18:35,748 --> 00:18:36,680
-There you go.
-Agh!

468
00:18:36,716 --> 00:18:38,081
See, that would've
been called a woody.

469
00:18:38,118 --> 00:18:39,350
-Woody?
-Yeah.

470
00:18:39,352 --> 00:18:40,551
'cause it hit
the wood there.

471
00:18:40,587 --> 00:18:42,353
Woody!
You got a woody!

472
00:18:42,422 --> 00:18:44,955
People are yelling that
out all over the pitch.

473
00:18:45,024 --> 00:18:47,158
"oh, you got
a woody!"

474
00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:49,360
It was like...

475
00:18:49,429 --> 00:18:51,595
[laughing]

476
00:18:51,631 --> 00:18:53,697
And then they told me one,

477
00:18:53,766 --> 00:18:57,067
The "newfoundlander flip",
they called it.

478
00:18:57,103 --> 00:18:58,202
-There it is.
-There it is!

479
00:18:58,337 --> 00:18:59,570
-Hey!
-Oh, no!

480
00:18:59,639 --> 00:19:01,505
-That doesn't count?
-No!

481
00:19:01,508 --> 00:19:03,240
-Ah!
-'cause it hit the woody.

482
00:19:03,309 --> 00:19:04,308
You got a woody there.

483
00:19:04,443 --> 00:19:06,644
And that's why we call
it a newfoundlander flip.

484
00:19:06,646 --> 00:19:08,112
So, that's when you
shoot your horseshoe,

485
00:19:08,247 --> 00:19:10,648
And it hits the dirt,
and it flips over,

486
00:19:10,650 --> 00:19:11,916
And it hits a ringer.

487
00:19:12,051 --> 00:19:13,451
It's like a fluke shot.

488
00:19:13,586 --> 00:19:15,953
Now, I don't take
offense to much.

489
00:19:15,989 --> 00:19:18,656
[laughing]

490
00:19:18,725 --> 00:19:21,525
But if you're talking
about a newfoundlander...

491
00:19:21,561 --> 00:19:24,395
Who does
something poorly,

492
00:19:24,464 --> 00:19:27,465
Yet somehow manages to
fluke into success...

493
00:19:27,467 --> 00:19:30,301
[laughing]

494
00:19:30,370 --> 00:19:32,403
That's a little
on the nose.

495
00:19:32,405 --> 00:19:34,271
[laughing]

496
00:19:34,340 --> 00:19:37,274
I'm gonna let it go.
It's gonna be-

497
00:19:37,276 --> 00:19:38,409
It's gonna be harder
to let go than

498
00:19:38,544 --> 00:19:40,945
My landline,
but I'm letting it go.

499
00:19:41,014 --> 00:19:43,414
[laughing]

500
00:19:43,416 --> 00:19:46,617
Oh!
You got it in the box!

501
00:19:46,752 --> 00:19:49,486
In this community,
some moves were

502
00:19:49,522 --> 00:19:52,356
Suggested in
treaties contested.

503
00:19:52,358 --> 00:19:55,393
Indian agents found
trouble to stir up...

504
00:19:55,395 --> 00:19:58,128
Giving nothing but lip,
and demanding a slip for

505
00:19:58,198 --> 00:20:01,198
Permission to tap
trees for syrup.

506
00:20:01,201 --> 00:20:03,300
But the times they
are a changin',

507
00:20:03,435 --> 00:20:06,237
From the days of
forbidden tradin'.

508
00:20:06,372 --> 00:20:09,239
New schools keep
history from repeating.

509
00:20:09,241 --> 00:20:11,676
Warriors now wield steel

510
00:20:11,811 --> 00:20:13,978
And are strong
enough for real

511
00:20:14,047 --> 00:20:17,248
To simultaneously give
birth and have meetings.

512
00:20:17,250 --> 00:20:19,316
[laughing]

513
00:20:19,385 --> 00:20:22,419
Some people say where you
lay your head is home.

514
00:20:22,421 --> 00:20:26,123
Though, finding home for
some is still trying.

515
00:20:26,125 --> 00:20:28,526
Still, they learned the
important part

516
00:20:28,661 --> 00:20:31,529
Ain't the head but
instead the heart.

517
00:20:31,664 --> 00:20:33,664
And for m'chigeeng
that home's

518
00:20:33,799 --> 00:20:35,732
The heart of
turtle island.

519
00:20:35,768 --> 00:20:37,201
Thanks for coming out,
everybody.

520
00:20:37,336 --> 00:20:38,703
You've been amazing!

521
00:20:38,705 --> 00:20:41,338
[cheering & applauding]

522
00:20:41,374 --> 00:20:45,309
♪

523
00:20:45,345 --> 00:20:46,810
I was dying out there.

524
00:20:46,846 --> 00:20:49,146
My eyes were watering,
and I'm like,

525
00:20:49,148 --> 00:20:50,748
"what's next?
What's next?"

526
00:20:50,817 --> 00:20:53,117
♪

527
00:20:53,186 --> 00:20:54,218
Yeah, he didn't
like weld great,

528
00:20:54,353 --> 00:20:57,221
But I definitely felt the
bond between jonny and I.

529
00:20:57,290 --> 00:21:01,492
Oh my god,
that is terrible!

530
00:21:01,561 --> 00:21:04,262
The show hit all the marks,
and being the heart of,

531
00:21:04,397 --> 00:21:06,697
Of turtle island,
I love that concept.

532
00:21:06,733 --> 00:21:11,101
♪

533
00:21:11,103 --> 00:21:13,570
♪

534
00:21:13,572 --> 00:21:15,339
He did better than my
first time playing.

535
00:21:15,341 --> 00:21:16,707
-Hey!
-Oh!

536
00:21:16,842 --> 00:21:18,108
-That doesn't count-
-doesn't count?

537
00:21:18,177 --> 00:21:19,443
-No.
-Ah!

538
00:21:19,578 --> 00:21:23,247
[speaking
indigenous language]