Wow … that was beautiful … and I love Redbone … I’ve never seen this. It’s what happens when our social circles and ability to pass along content between one another becomes smaller and smaller.

That was a fun watch and like everything I ever see, read and watch these days that has Indigenous content, I had to carefully look into who made, produced and created this and it looks legit and everyone participated in good faith to make it and the Indigenous community love it.

Not only was it fun to watch, it was uplifting too. This is the thing that many non-Native people miss about Native people, we are often portrayed as serious, sour looking people who wave our hands in the air and give off some kind of magical ancient power of some kind. It couldn’t be further from the truth. I’ve known many traditional Elders in my life and they are all as silly, funny and take themselves as unseriously as anyone in these little communities of ours. They offer wisdom and knowledge but in a way where they don’t take a moral high ground over anyone. It’s a perspective where we are all standing on the same ground and no one is higher than anyone else … including the one who is speaking. Because in the end, we are all born of the ground and return to it in the end and that fact is what makes us all the same, no matter what we would like to believe or disbelieve.

That really made my day. Chi-meegwetch doodem … it means ‘thanks very much, my friend’ … kitchi-neenaskoomeetin … ‘I give my praises to you’ … and also ‘keeteesee’ … it means ‘your belly button’ (it’s a childish thing to say to a friend to have a bit of fun with them) … lol