1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.BZ 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.BZ 3 00:00:15,223 --> 00:00:19,769 When you take away the knowledge of who you are, 4 00:00:21,020 --> 00:00:23,189 you get into a state of despair. 5 00:00:24,899 --> 00:00:26,609 That's what we see today. 6 00:00:33,450 --> 00:00:38,163 If you do not have the link between you and the spirits, 7 00:00:39,289 --> 00:00:41,833 the one who can see what's wrong, 8 00:00:42,751 --> 00:00:44,461 we go on blindly. 9 00:00:46,588 --> 00:00:49,132 We have forgotten the Inua, 10 00:00:49,132 --> 00:00:51,718 the life within everything. 11 00:01:10,111 --> 00:01:15,074 You see a plant, the plant sees you, recognizes you 12 00:01:15,825 --> 00:01:17,660 knows that you are family 13 00:01:21,164 --> 00:01:23,082 when you see a rock, 14 00:01:23,082 --> 00:01:26,085 this rock has been there before humans. 15 00:01:26,085 --> 00:01:29,380 They have seen us grow here on earth, 16 00:01:29,380 --> 00:01:31,633 evolve into what we are today. 17 00:01:34,093 --> 00:01:37,305 Who are we in this world? Who are Inuit, 18 00:01:39,516 --> 00:01:43,436 when the structure is built for someone else? 19 00:01:45,063 --> 00:01:47,482 We are still Inuit. 20 00:01:48,441 --> 00:01:50,693 And we need our roots. 21 00:01:59,244 --> 00:02:01,079 We have a birthright, 22 00:02:02,539 --> 00:02:04,207 we have a heritage. 23 00:02:06,376 --> 00:02:08,878 It's still yours to take. 24 00:02:11,548 --> 00:02:14,425 (singing) 25 00:02:50,628 --> 00:02:54,757 If you look at our surroundings, we live in the Arctic 26 00:02:54,757 --> 00:02:58,094 and in the winter we cannot survive alone. 27 00:03:02,015 --> 00:03:03,933 We have only been able to survive 28 00:03:03,933 --> 00:03:05,727 because we have a community. 29 00:03:06,603 --> 00:03:09,188 And the way people were back then, 30 00:03:09,731 --> 00:03:13,902 they were very holistic and community based. 31 00:03:15,028 --> 00:03:18,197 The first colonists would say that we were very simple, 32 00:03:19,324 --> 00:03:22,160 but that's like a survival technique. 33 00:03:22,619 --> 00:03:25,914 We spare as much energy as we can to survive. 34 00:03:26,915 --> 00:03:29,167 We have to keep our mind light. 35 00:03:30,627 --> 00:03:32,670 If you have a heavy mind, 36 00:03:33,504 --> 00:03:36,674 the chances that you won't survive are greater. 37 00:03:42,013 --> 00:03:46,559 In our culture, everything is just interconnected with each other. 38 00:03:48,937 --> 00:03:54,901 In Inuit worldview, Inuit are equal to all animals. 39 00:03:55,485 --> 00:03:59,656 Killing a bear is not different from killing a human. 40 00:04:01,574 --> 00:04:07,080 Our closest relationship is the Nanoq, the polar bear. 41 00:04:09,457 --> 00:04:12,543 It taught us how to hunt the seal. 42 00:04:12,543 --> 00:04:16,631 We wouldn't have survived arctic without the polar bear. 43 00:04:17,507 --> 00:04:21,844 Sometimes we hunt it, sometimes it hunts us, 44 00:04:21,844 --> 00:04:26,057 we have an equal relationship to each other. 45 00:04:47,912 --> 00:04:53,876 Greenland has been a colony of Denmark for 300 years, last year. 46 00:05:30,121 --> 00:05:32,457 We were forced to get baptized. 47 00:05:32,457 --> 00:05:36,878 Many say that we chose to, that we went to church for salvation, 48 00:05:36,878 --> 00:05:38,796 that they are our saviors. 49 00:05:39,505 --> 00:05:41,883 That's the role they want to have. 50 00:05:45,219 --> 00:05:48,181 In reality, the truth behind it all 51 00:05:48,181 --> 00:05:50,600 is that they took away food. 52 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:54,062 They took away human rights, basic rights. 53 00:05:54,645 --> 00:05:58,775 They punished the families that didn't get baptized 54 00:05:59,233 --> 00:06:01,611 and they shamed the Angakkut. 55 00:06:03,404 --> 00:06:07,658 It's not natural to shame the ones who take care 56 00:06:07,658 --> 00:06:11,037 of our relationship with the universe. 57 00:06:12,538 --> 00:06:15,958 A shaman is one who is trusted. 58 00:06:16,709 --> 00:06:21,506 A shaman is one who is respected and loved and cared for. 59 00:06:22,215 --> 00:06:26,969 The shamans were forced to abandon their people. 60 00:06:28,387 --> 00:06:29,639 That is a curse. 61 00:07:01,629 --> 00:07:04,507 I did struggle a lot with identity. 62 00:07:05,007 --> 00:07:08,970 I grew up with a Danish father and an Inuk mother, 63 00:07:09,470 --> 00:07:12,932 and for Inuit I was too Danish, 64 00:07:12,932 --> 00:07:15,184 and for Danish people I was too Inuk. 65 00:07:17,603 --> 00:07:21,023 We have been taught that we have nothing to be proud of. 66 00:07:21,399 --> 00:07:27,280 The way we learn about our culture in school is through Danish eyes. 67 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:33,286 The idea of being civilized is by living like Danish people, 68 00:07:33,619 --> 00:07:39,208 but in our language, being civilized, 'atugartuunngorsarneq', 69 00:07:39,208 --> 00:07:41,502 that means becoming a big spender. 70 00:08:17,455 --> 00:08:20,917 And the more individualistic you become, 71 00:08:21,250 --> 00:08:23,377 with outside influence, 72 00:08:24,795 --> 00:08:26,672 the more lonely people get. 73 00:08:28,424 --> 00:08:32,970 I think that's also why we have so many social problems 74 00:08:32,970 --> 00:08:36,307 with alcoholism and suicide. 75 00:08:36,307 --> 00:08:39,852 Because Greenland has the highest suicide rate in the world. 76 00:08:40,519 --> 00:08:44,482 It's because there's all of these unspoken things 77 00:08:45,316 --> 00:08:49,278 of the consequences of the colonialism 78 00:08:50,446 --> 00:08:56,535 that is very difficult to talk about and address. 79 00:09:00,373 --> 00:09:04,543 My grandmother, because she was brought up during the colony, 80 00:09:05,586 --> 00:09:12,176 she felt less than Danish people, like, she felt unworthy. 81 00:09:17,181 --> 00:09:23,062 This shaming and making our culture evil 82 00:09:23,062 --> 00:09:29,110 and telling the story of how we fled our culture to get saved by the church, 83 00:09:29,110 --> 00:09:33,155 that lie, and also, 84 00:09:35,116 --> 00:09:36,492 the hurt. 85 00:09:37,535 --> 00:09:38,744 We are hurt 86 00:09:40,162 --> 00:09:42,873 because we are ashamed of who we are. 87 00:09:44,917 --> 00:09:50,089 And that shame goes into every fiber of your body, 88 00:09:50,089 --> 00:09:51,757 into the bones, 89 00:09:52,174 --> 00:09:54,844 changes how you speak to the universe. 90 00:09:55,970 --> 00:09:59,515 So the universe only responds to your trauma 91 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:03,811 instead of your hopes and dreams. 92 00:10:12,737 --> 00:10:17,491 We started internalizing our own colonization. 93 00:10:17,491 --> 00:10:19,368 Are we Danish enough? 94 00:10:19,368 --> 00:10:23,706 Are you living your life according to what the Danes tell you to? 95 00:10:23,706 --> 00:10:29,545 And that destruction and disruption of community, individualizing us, 96 00:10:30,421 --> 00:10:32,381 and taking our soul away. 97 00:10:44,101 --> 00:10:47,480 My mother's generation was the one who was sent 98 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:50,191 to Denmark for a year for boarding school. 99 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:53,819 I think she was 10 or 11, 100 00:10:54,278 --> 00:11:02,703 but I can see how it has changed my mother's value sets. 101 00:20:36,276 --> 00:20:40,489 I was four years old when I was sitting 102 00:20:40,489 --> 00:20:44,451 underneath the stairs in a house in Ittoqqortoormiit 103 00:20:45,327 --> 00:20:51,375 with my cousin, and he was like, "I'm a hunter". 104 00:20:52,542 --> 00:20:57,881 And I looked at him. I knew it was true he was a hunter, 105 00:20:57,881 --> 00:21:01,134 and I got up, I looked at my mom, I said, 106 00:21:01,885 --> 00:21:03,470 "uanga Angakkoq." 107 00:21:04,179 --> 00:21:06,139 "I'm a shaman", to my mom. 108 00:21:06,974 --> 00:21:08,183 And she looked at me. 109 00:21:09,351 --> 00:21:10,519 No. 110 00:21:11,561 --> 00:21:14,314 Because nobody wants to be a shaman 111 00:21:14,815 --> 00:21:18,652 because you live between living and dead. 112 00:21:36,962 --> 00:21:40,799 I was seven years old when we moved to Denmark 113 00:21:46,888 --> 00:21:49,891 because my big sister 114 00:21:50,934 --> 00:21:54,938 had turned in my father for rape. 115 00:21:55,856 --> 00:21:59,860 And people were getting 116 00:22:00,569 --> 00:22:05,991 aware of what he was doing to the children in this city. 117 00:22:12,497 --> 00:22:14,791 My father was a pedophile. 118 00:22:15,375 --> 00:22:20,505 So was his father, and so was his grandfather. 119 00:22:21,131 --> 00:22:23,008 It was generational. 120 00:22:23,675 --> 00:22:30,766 And I know he came to Greenland because he had an opportunity to abuse children. 121 00:22:32,642 --> 00:22:38,899 The colonies created opportunities for all kinds of people to come 122 00:22:38,899 --> 00:22:42,527 and live out the darkest parts of them. 123 00:22:47,324 --> 00:22:51,787 And the abuse towards my mom continued, 124 00:22:52,746 --> 00:22:57,709 but all of a sudden, she had the possibility to get away. 125 00:23:05,425 --> 00:23:08,011 So she ran away from him. 126 00:23:12,224 --> 00:23:14,768 I stayed with him, but, 127 00:23:17,104 --> 00:23:22,359 as I got closer to puberty, my body started changing, 128 00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:26,071 and with that, I was more and more scared of him, 129 00:23:26,863 --> 00:23:31,284 and I didn't know why completely at the time. 130 00:23:42,796 --> 00:23:46,633 The first time, I was 15, 131 00:23:47,342 --> 00:23:50,887 and I had tried to commit suicide. 132 00:23:51,596 --> 00:23:54,182 I started already when I was eight. 133 00:23:56,226 --> 00:23:59,271 But nobody believed me. I was just a child. 134 00:23:59,271 --> 00:24:02,399 And, I took knives 135 00:24:02,399 --> 00:24:06,069 and said to my big sister, "I'm going to kill myself", 136 00:24:06,069 --> 00:24:08,238 and she was like, "no, of course you're not." 137 00:24:08,238 --> 00:24:09,531 But I meant it. 138 00:24:09,531 --> 00:24:13,660 I wanted to die. But we were kids, 139 00:24:13,660 --> 00:24:18,415 they didn't understand the deep traumas that I had. 140 00:24:33,138 --> 00:24:35,015 I didn't know at the time, 141 00:24:35,849 --> 00:24:38,852 but I started to connect with spirit. 142 00:24:49,070 --> 00:24:52,199 And that way I could suddenly 143 00:24:53,783 --> 00:24:55,410 have room for my soul. 144 00:25:02,292 --> 00:25:06,338 When I was 16, I had my first relationship, 145 00:25:08,298 --> 00:25:10,300 and suddenly I was pregnant. 146 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:18,099 And the moment I realized I was pregnant, I was so scared. 147 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:25,482 I wasn't ready, and I knew that. 148 00:25:25,899 --> 00:25:28,985 But I also saw it as, you know, 149 00:25:28,985 --> 00:25:36,409 Inuit see children as a gift from Sila, from ancestors. 150 00:25:38,286 --> 00:25:44,918 So I called home to my mom and stepfather, my father, and I told them: "I'm pregnant". 151 00:25:46,086 --> 00:25:48,880 And they were so happy. 152 00:25:49,339 --> 00:25:52,842 And then I told his, my son's father, 153 00:25:52,842 --> 00:25:57,097 and he was like: "You're going to get rid of that". 154 00:25:58,223 --> 00:26:03,270 And I was like: "Okay, I will. I will do what you say". 155 00:26:03,270 --> 00:26:09,276 And I put myself in the mental institution and said: "I'm going to have this abortion 156 00:26:09,859 --> 00:26:12,570 and I know that I want to die after that." 157 00:26:12,988 --> 00:26:16,700 And then I had to go to the doctor's appointment 158 00:26:16,700 --> 00:26:21,371 and the doctor felt my stomach and I was proud. 159 00:26:22,455 --> 00:26:30,672 I was so proud of the life that was in me and I hoped he could feel it. 160 00:26:32,716 --> 00:26:35,969 The next day I was supposed to do the abortion 161 00:26:35,969 --> 00:26:39,139 and I put the pills in the trash can 162 00:26:39,848 --> 00:26:43,977 and I called my parents and said, I'm coming home. 163 00:26:44,602 --> 00:26:47,605 And I called his father and said, I had the abortion. 164 00:26:48,815 --> 00:26:50,984 And I left Denmark 165 00:26:51,901 --> 00:26:56,323 and I hid him so that he could be born. 166 00:27:03,747 --> 00:27:04,998 He came, 167 00:27:08,501 --> 00:27:15,216 and I remember seeing him thinking how I had been treated. 168 00:27:16,509 --> 00:27:20,930 How can anyone do this to a child? 169 00:27:20,930 --> 00:27:26,353 I was like that. How could anyone treat me so bad? 170 00:27:28,938 --> 00:27:31,900 I did well the first year, 171 00:27:34,444 --> 00:27:36,821 and then my sister died 172 00:27:38,948 --> 00:27:41,910 and I lost it. 173 00:27:46,539 --> 00:27:50,001 And I got weaker and weaker and weaker. 174 00:27:52,003 --> 00:27:56,674 In the end, I was...I had to... 175 00:27:58,426 --> 00:28:00,845 let go of my child 176 00:28:01,721 --> 00:28:05,600 because I had promised to never harm him. 177 00:28:07,310 --> 00:28:11,231 And I would give my trauma to him. 178 00:28:11,231 --> 00:28:14,567 I could see the patterns come. 179 00:28:16,403 --> 00:28:21,533 And I remember laying next to him while he slept for his nap, 180 00:28:22,283 --> 00:28:24,577 he was two years old. 181 00:28:25,954 --> 00:28:31,292 And I knew that when he falls asleep, I would leave him. 182 00:28:35,338 --> 00:28:37,715 I loved him more than I loved me. 183 00:28:37,715 --> 00:28:39,592 I wanted to take care of him. 184 00:28:39,592 --> 00:28:43,388 I never wanted to leave him, but I had to. 185 00:28:46,933 --> 00:28:48,643 He should live happy. 186 00:28:50,603 --> 00:28:55,150 Not the way I lived, not my childhood. Never. 187 00:29:06,953 --> 00:29:09,956 And quite honestly, I was so 188 00:29:10,790 --> 00:29:14,878 lost in medication that I do not remember everything. 189 00:29:18,798 --> 00:29:23,678 My trauma ruined it, and I had no chance. 190 00:29:23,678 --> 00:29:27,724 I didn't have a chance against 191 00:29:29,934 --> 00:29:35,315 this deep, deep, deep trauma that goes even beyond this life. 192 00:29:38,443 --> 00:29:42,405 So I didn't care if I lived or died anymore. 193 00:29:44,115 --> 00:29:47,785 And when I did the last suicide attempt, 194 00:29:48,661 --> 00:29:50,830 I actually left this world 195 00:29:50,830 --> 00:29:52,790 and went to the realm of the dead. 196 00:29:54,709 --> 00:30:00,673 I had smelled the last blood leave my body. 197 00:30:00,673 --> 00:30:03,092 It smells like deep forest. 198 00:30:04,219 --> 00:30:06,095 I remember closing my eyes 199 00:30:07,889 --> 00:30:12,685 and I went to a place where I thought, what is this? 200 00:30:16,397 --> 00:30:18,441 And then this peace was there. 201 00:30:19,609 --> 00:30:22,946 And this peace, I was like, wow. 202 00:30:23,404 --> 00:30:26,199 And I closed my eyes again and I felt it, 203 00:30:26,199 --> 00:30:29,244 but this time I met something 204 00:30:30,119 --> 00:30:34,666 and I opened my eyes and I had peace in this world. 205 00:30:49,055 --> 00:30:50,682 Something else came. 206 00:30:52,850 --> 00:30:57,188 This tiny flame, like in the qulleq 207 00:30:57,814 --> 00:31:03,528 this tiny flame in the igloo that just lights up everything. 208 00:31:04,362 --> 00:31:05,446 It was there. 209 00:33:05,608 --> 00:33:09,862 What I realized when I got my drum is that 210 00:33:10,655 --> 00:33:13,449 I had to accept that I had a power. 211 00:33:15,743 --> 00:33:18,246 I come from a shamanic lineage. 212 00:33:19,580 --> 00:33:22,208 My great-grandparents were shamans 213 00:33:23,418 --> 00:33:25,586 and my mother has the ability. 214 00:33:27,255 --> 00:33:29,674 I have been brought up to not say. 215 00:33:39,642 --> 00:33:43,354 We all have a power within, 216 00:33:43,354 --> 00:33:45,106 we have a life force. 217 00:33:45,857 --> 00:33:48,818 We have so much trauma 218 00:33:49,986 --> 00:33:51,946 and we are still here. 219 00:33:52,488 --> 00:33:57,869 That's power. Take that power and play it. 220 00:33:58,703 --> 00:34:03,166 Let your heart beat and the drum unite with the universe. 221 00:34:04,542 --> 00:34:12,884 Feel it. It's the uterus. It births so much for you when you play that drum. 222 00:34:33,070 --> 00:34:38,159 In our worldview, our body contains many souls 223 00:34:38,159 --> 00:34:42,580 where our Angakkut has the responsibility to 224 00:34:43,664 --> 00:34:47,376 remove foreign souls from places they don't belong, 225 00:34:47,376 --> 00:34:54,091 and bring souls that belong there that have left, to bring them back. 226 00:34:59,222 --> 00:35:03,476 The shamans had the responsibility for the souls 227 00:35:04,268 --> 00:35:06,187 of his humans. 228 00:35:07,271 --> 00:35:09,565 There are different kinds of shamans. 229 00:35:10,316 --> 00:35:13,736 We have different personalities, different abilities. 230 00:35:15,238 --> 00:35:18,658 Different ways of working, seeing. 231 00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:23,496 That's just Sila's way of working. 232 00:35:24,330 --> 00:35:31,879 A shaman was the one who had to uphold the relationship with spirits. 233 00:35:40,847 --> 00:35:47,854 Those who have been writing about our ancestors have come from a patriarchal society. 234 00:35:47,854 --> 00:35:55,486 You are taught to learn that men are more important and stronger. 235 00:35:58,656 --> 00:36:03,786 So when they come to people who have a different spirituality 236 00:36:03,786 --> 00:36:07,248 and the woman is a keeper of that spirituality, 237 00:36:07,248 --> 00:36:14,505 she's just put in the back and they focus on the man, on the hunter. 238 00:36:14,505 --> 00:36:20,303 Even though the man wouldn't survive without his woman, or his partner. 239 00:36:40,406 --> 00:36:44,201 Growing up, I had times in my life where 240 00:36:44,201 --> 00:36:48,372 I didn't know it was my ancestors, but they came and I just knew. 241 00:36:51,500 --> 00:36:59,842 I was 15 when I started to leave town and go to the mountains to die, 242 00:37:02,219 --> 00:37:06,307 and, every time I got back from the mountains, 243 00:37:06,307 --> 00:37:07,850 I was so happy. 244 00:37:10,269 --> 00:37:15,816 It was odd because I left to die and I came back happy as I had ever been. 245 00:37:17,276 --> 00:37:21,906 And when I started doing my shamanic journeys, 246 00:37:22,782 --> 00:37:28,037 I had a spirit helper that came and talked to me and gave me peace. 247 00:37:28,037 --> 00:37:31,707 And I remember sitting there 248 00:37:32,458 --> 00:37:38,714 in the mountain with all I needed to not live anymore, and he was like: 249 00:37:38,714 --> 00:37:43,970 "Not yet. You are not ready. You have so much you need to do." 250 00:37:45,721 --> 00:37:49,600 But I got in contact with the source of life. 251 00:37:50,685 --> 00:37:52,269 I didn't understand it, 252 00:37:53,854 --> 00:37:56,065 but I had let go of everything, 253 00:37:56,607 --> 00:38:00,152 and that's all that was left, was the spirit world. 254 00:38:03,030 --> 00:38:07,368 I had been dancing with it my whole life without knowing it, 255 00:38:08,452 --> 00:38:13,666 the struggle with myself and not letting go of me so the spirits could come. 256 00:38:14,125 --> 00:38:19,755 That's the dance, told me to let go and I tried to hold on so I didn't break. 257 00:38:20,214 --> 00:38:21,132 But you... 258 00:38:21,632 --> 00:38:24,093 To break is the only solution. 259 00:38:25,177 --> 00:38:26,095 Yeah... 260 00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:17,678 The contraception scandal in Greenland. 261 00:43:17,678 --> 00:43:22,391 A group of about 67 women now demanding compensation from the Danish government 262 00:43:22,391 --> 00:43:28,022 after they say they were forced to undergo involuntary procedures as young teens to prevent pregnancy. 263 00:49:44,439 --> 00:49:47,776 I would see drum dancers from East Greenland coming. 264 00:49:47,776 --> 00:49:55,242 There was a sense of belonging and also a big sense of sadness. 265 00:49:56,535 --> 00:50:01,498 Because I could feel that drum singing was very powerful, 266 00:50:02,624 --> 00:50:04,334 but I didn't understand. 267 00:50:05,001 --> 00:50:07,796 I didn't understand what the songs were about 268 00:50:08,714 --> 00:50:15,011 because the tradition was lost for centuries. 269 00:50:23,395 --> 00:50:26,898 I first learned how to do drum dance as an adult. 270 00:50:34,740 --> 00:50:39,286 You have to follow principles when you do a drum dance. 271 00:50:40,203 --> 00:50:45,083 You have to have the physical part, that's where the body 272 00:50:45,083 --> 00:50:48,378 moves, dances and sings and beats the drum, 273 00:50:49,045 --> 00:50:51,506 and you beat the drum after your heartbeat. 274 00:50:59,431 --> 00:51:04,394 You have to have the mental part where the feeling of the song is, 275 00:51:05,145 --> 00:51:07,939 because every drum song has a purpose. 276 00:51:09,065 --> 00:51:11,735 And you have to have the spiritual part 277 00:51:12,235 --> 00:51:16,239 because when you are doing drum dance, you are just being a channel. 278 00:51:17,407 --> 00:51:22,037 And every drum song, they belong to what we call Sila. 279 00:51:23,622 --> 00:51:27,834 It can be the weather, it can be your consciousness, 280 00:51:28,376 --> 00:51:31,296 but it can also be your mind. 281 00:51:33,006 --> 00:51:33,882 Sila. 282 00:51:43,350 --> 00:51:46,353 I just need to wait for the song to come to me 283 00:52:04,538 --> 00:52:11,002 Before I start doing a song, in here I think: "Sila, can I please use the song?" 284 00:52:13,421 --> 00:52:15,799 and that is also why I send it back. 285 00:52:17,300 --> 00:52:21,721 I send it back to Sila. Because it's not my song. 286 00:52:33,567 --> 00:52:37,737 Sila is everything. 287 00:52:39,489 --> 00:52:43,618 I see Sila as the creator, 288 00:52:44,327 --> 00:52:50,584 as the being behind all religion, all life. 289 00:52:50,584 --> 00:52:53,920 It's the breath I have. It's the words I speak. 290 00:52:54,713 --> 00:52:58,967 It's the light, the consciousness in here, that's Sila. 291 00:53:03,430 --> 00:53:06,975 Everything around us has a soul, or an Inua. 292 00:53:08,310 --> 00:53:11,021 Sila is the Inua of the universe. 293 00:53:15,734 --> 00:53:24,075 I understood the more I got deeper and deeper into the tradition, 294 00:53:24,868 --> 00:53:28,914 became more and more balanced within myself, 295 00:53:28,914 --> 00:53:38,214 and understood more and more that my role in this reality that we have created here is to 296 00:53:39,591 --> 00:53:47,057 normalize the use of drum songs and drum dance among my people. 297 00:53:47,891 --> 00:53:52,270 Make a way for people to have a sense of belonging. 298 00:54:01,821 --> 00:54:06,701 Marking the body is an extension of the woman sewing practice, 299 00:54:06,701 --> 00:54:10,538 and it's mostly done by a woman and carried by a woman, 300 00:54:10,538 --> 00:54:17,045 and it's really much connected to her spiritual responsibility to the 301 00:54:17,796 --> 00:54:19,839 Sila and her community. 302 00:54:23,843 --> 00:54:33,728 The markings I'm working with make a bridge to our pre-colonial ways of living. 303 00:54:36,940 --> 00:54:41,111 In the beginning of the colonization, all women were marked. 304 00:54:41,111 --> 00:54:50,370 And when the missionaries arrived in 1721, in many Inuit regions, it was banned. 305 00:54:51,204 --> 00:54:54,290 Within a hundred years it was gone. 306 00:55:04,384 --> 00:55:06,928 And that's what we are relearning now. 307 00:55:14,185 --> 00:55:19,107 It has been a healing journey, and I learned that 308 00:55:20,316 --> 00:55:27,407 I couldn't wait for others to claim me, I need to define who I am 309 00:55:27,407 --> 00:55:31,077 and I need to claim my own place of belonging. 310 00:55:34,664 --> 00:55:40,462 We all have responsibilities towards ourselves and each other, 311 00:55:42,297 --> 00:55:45,216 and that responsibility is a balance. 312 00:55:46,885 --> 00:55:52,390 When you take away the responsibility, you take away the balance. 313 00:55:54,726 --> 00:55:58,521 Only colonized people colonize people. 314 00:55:59,606 --> 00:56:03,943 It's not just Inuit that needs to heal, not just the colonized. 315 00:56:04,486 --> 00:56:08,073 The colonizers need even more healing than we do. 316 00:56:09,574 --> 00:56:12,327 Now, the white people are looking for help 317 00:56:12,327 --> 00:56:15,288 amongst the indigenous natives and aboriginals 318 00:56:15,288 --> 00:56:17,540 because they do not remember. 319 00:56:17,999 --> 00:56:20,043 We Indigenous people can help. 320 00:56:20,627 --> 00:56:24,506 Use my roots to dive into your own culture. 321 00:56:25,757 --> 00:56:31,596 Because I can awaken my ancestors, I did that in a ceremony, so could you. 322 00:56:35,308 --> 00:56:40,146 In order to break that curse, we need to empower each other. 323 00:56:40,688 --> 00:56:46,861 You need to acknowledge your pain, your anger. It's taking care of you. 324 00:56:46,861 --> 00:56:49,614 It's protecting you from feeling the pain. 325 00:56:50,532 --> 00:56:55,787 So healing is to take away all that's not supposed to be there. 326 00:56:55,787 --> 00:56:59,290 All the stories that you have held onto, the emotions. 327 00:57:00,792 --> 00:57:04,254 All the heavy energies go back to where they belong, 328 00:57:04,796 --> 00:57:10,510 so that you can get your full power back into your body, so that there's room for your soul. 329 00:57:12,011 --> 00:57:15,515 We have forgotten that we can go all the way to the first mother. 330 00:57:16,307 --> 00:57:21,312 The first mother, the first conscious human being, they are still there. 331 00:57:21,980 --> 00:57:24,566 It is the same consciousness we carry. 332 00:57:25,984 --> 00:57:31,656 So it is about connecting to what you have forgotten to connect to. 333 00:57:32,198 --> 00:57:36,744 It's there. It will never go away. We will always be souls. 334 00:57:36,744 --> 00:57:38,580 We will always be humans. 335 00:57:39,414 --> 00:57:42,959 And it will always come when we ask for help.