Our 7 Ojibway Teachings:

- women oi add bananas Shania - we winnin and out goes it when ago pagoda Jackie Chan askin given on Inga Giza meaning who is it kajam Anatole Mian on Anishinabe can I get one in daily Chaya Midway Geyser Dakar taken madoka magazine a good morning everyone and especially to the elders this morning I acknowledge the elders have always had a very significant role in our society as an issue nabhi people it was the elder that always reminded the people of how we should be living how we should be behaving and how we should walk as an issue nabhi people whenever prayers are done prayers are always done to invoke the spirit and the grandfather's to come within our presence to be around us the guide us to teach us to protect us there was a law that our people believed in that they practice it was called widget Ibaka with the great binding law of the Creator and our people knew recognize acknowledge that everything that was created was connected to this higher power spirit that we refer to as our Great Creator it was the creator that created everything that we that we are everything that we see and everything that we can be is you know is derived through the blessing of our Great Creator it is said that the first teaching that was given was a teaching of respect which was symbolized by the Buffalo in a language I would say Kamini was Anishinabe chicken de manna cheated and got the canonical energy key and to know respect is really to know how to give think of the Buffalo when there were millions and millions of Buffalo running across the prairies and giving of themselves so that the people could survive every part of that Buffalo was used the bones the inside of the Buffalo everything was used that's how much the Buffalo gajima notch at Anishinabe how much he he respected the people that that Buffalo gave every part of its big what a beautiful way of life you noted to know and recognize how important I'd respect it the second teaching was a teaching of love which was symbolized by the ego it has always been understood the essence and the spirit that is within each of us carries the energy and the spirit of love we were created through the unconditional love of the Great Spirit given Anishinabe me where economic Akina Mogollon Malaysia engineering can you move Economou Anishinabe on e-mini keen indigo coriaci she's arranging it and you know whenever the ceremonies are carried on whether you're going in a sweat or in a Sun Dance or any of the ceremonies that Eagle comes you go to the sacred site it will make your offerings and their Eagle appears probably that the three most powerful words that can be said I love you I love you in our language is the aperture gives you intimate powerful the moment that you begin to say that something happens inside here inside of you and your spirit in your heart that's powerful words to say love is the energy love is the spirit that has everything to do with life the third teacher that the people were given that laid the foundation of having a good life was a teaching of courage and the bear was always there to offer that spirit of courage AG mean--it Anishinabe chicken onions on good day when Maccoby mean Anishinaabe i didn't give inches over the head you got to have courage and what is it to have courage for what you've got to have courage to do the right thing there's many many different ways to do the wrong thing but only one way to do the right thing that's expressed in the heart and it takes a lot of courage do you have the courage to be Anishinabe to really live and walk the teachings of your people people that understand the teachings you would take the tobacco and then you would go to the land and say grandfather McCoy we choose shin you know help me help me to have courage to do the right thing and that bear comes spiritually that there will come will come and help you to give you the courage to do the right thing and the for teaching that we were given as a teaching of honesty that was represented by the one they call sabe or Bigfoot honestly to our people meant that you you know that you learn to speak from your heart get out in your head get out of your mind because your mind is gonna is going to lead you many times the opposite of what what the heart is trying to express to be honest is to be able to be true to your word so that sabe was always there to to offer that that that inspiration you know in being honest how to be honest now that's a good one that one I remember growing up and you know the elders whenever they agree to something they would shake their hand or say yeah it'll be done they didn't need to write on paper on any agreement or contract their contract was their heart because the truth was spoken from their heart and the old people would always say is that you you learn to speak from the heart v teaching was the teaching of wisdom that was represented by the beaver and to know wisdom is to know that you you have you have a gift so that beaver has always been there to help us to remember that if we want to build a better life you know we have to use the gifts that you have can I get aa key Mina go is again everyone was given a gift you have a gift you have a gift you have again but to know wisdom is once you know your gift you use that gift to serve the people to serve your family and to serve your community that's wisdom the beaver whenever the fire goes through the beaver will come first and you'll work with the water and you're going to fix it up and everything starts to get green and all these other animals start to come the ducks and you know all these other animals they come and it's it's beautiful but the beaver zone that goes in first what's he doing is building and what is he using to build is those two sharp teeth that he has now if that beaver just lay on the shore and not using his gift of sharp teeth the cut trees his teeth would grow long and he would die that applies to all of us if you don't use your gift you're going to get sick he got cuz can actually mean equalizing it everyone was given something the six teaching is the teaching of humbleness that was represented by the wolf and the wolf was there to remind us to live a humble life and to live a humble life is to acknowledge first of all that there is a higher power spirit that we of course as the people refer to as a great mystery the Great Creator when you walk down the trail and that wolf is walking that same trail and he's walking towards you the first thing that wolf is going to do is going to stop is going to bow his head not because he's scared of you he's humbled by the presence of the human being the no humbleness is to think of your fellow human being before you think of anybody else that you always think of your brothers and your sisters you always think of the elders you always think of do it before you think of yourself - no t'roat through the grandmother turtle you know always brought the teaching of truth is to know that we cannot live truth until we're able to to live the teachings that they've been you know shared and expressed we go okay now we actually got your chicken way me come me with a boy or a vegetable me honest in certain additional be Onondaga jhemini who was a chick misete skyway gargy Kagamine it Anishinabe an awning cave in Chi Chad me women of Madison Koenig a go kamiya Anishinaabe gave in an e triad near a min of Madison organized - people gave it to me community boyhood and in open a diamond mine I cheated Oh bananas and she gave it over in a soggy Darrin open any guys jhemini wizard Anishinabe organ aid that Kyle can see spades at area Mickey non-ecc mean international agents at 1080 boilin table I went to check a and then get me away Germany to a cane then gave in a yacht modest with a no comas me honest a table a no major K and Anishinabe when we said the turtle in our language is a mechanic and then we said that the turtle we cannot care that trail that that turtle is leaving a trail that we are to follow what is the turtle carrying the turtle is carrying the teachings of respect love courage honesty wisdom and humility that's what that grandmother is carrying I feel you know that the richness of who we are as and it should not be people and that richness comes in the knowledge and the understanding that we have and when we look at the seven teachings that we have and hold that have evolved over thousands and thousands of years the teachings that we are given reflect the identity of the spirit that is in each and every one of us you carry all those teachings inside of you as long as you have an ounce of blood of Anishinabe you have the genetic memory to know those teaching the holy spot of our people is the knowledge the ceremony the language and the relationship that we have with the land that's the holy spot of our people what an awesome gift that the creator gave us as Anishinabe people

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Published: Fri May 16 2014