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Submitted by Norman Cohn on Thu, 2010-12-02 12:18.
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Franci Taylor: If you count all the hours we spent in this room together, I come up with twenty-eight hours. It has been a powerful experience for me. It was very difficult for me to think of coming into a meeting like this. Sitting here and looking at these esteemed people that I respect so much. I still feel pretty much like the baby of the group in many ways. Like all of us, Bernadette’s movie, what I got out of this when I see these objects in the museum. I cannot touch them without feeling that it is a chord to my heritage. I see people in those objects. And this is part of why I say they are living. I see those people that strove and lived and died, for me in every stitch in those objects. We haven't commented here on Indian humour, which is so inherent to everything there. Nothing is made in silence. It is made with joy and with expression of that joy and laughing. What was the most what I got out of, I was up to say: Some really nice places to eat, besides the University Cafeteria. But I didn't know if the Indian Humour would go over. Some of the things I made notes of reminded me. It's a sense of hope. I do come out with a sense of hopefulness. I have been reminded of the sacredness and the power of words. It was amazing to see a whole documentary in an indigenous language. A majority of my family, my group in Montana, we have a 97 percent lost language. And so the only thing left to us is English. We are starting to get back our languages, but we don't have it. If you go and ask the elders what something is, the most common response is: "We no longer have a word for that.” And that makes me sad. Second, I have been amazed to understand how incredibly difficult it is to step outside our own point of view, and look at it from another point of view. It's like the old saying: Don't judge somebody, until you have walked a mile in their moccasins. And every time you point at somebody, you need to remember that there are three fingers pointing back at you. It is very easy to look with a critical eye at the past and say: "Look what they did, we didn't do that." We weren't in that time. I was reminded of the things I was told I should live by. These are just concepts to live by: love, respect (Thank you for talking about respect, Jane) cooperation, generosity, humility, reciprocity, sharing.
Aviâja Rosing Jakobsen: First of all I want to thank you, because I forgot to say that in the morning. Many things are already said by the other participants. I would also like to say Thank you to Bernadette. You took the elders to see the objects so close, which they thought were gone. And also, Thank you, Franci, for telling us that you were brought up to these storytellers. This is also a way to continue our cultural heritage. And also, Samoe and Basja: Good luck to you and your project. It is a good way, not to start from the upper level but with the local communities. And also thank you, Cunera, for involving us into this photograph project.
and just a few more....
Franci Taylor: If you count all the hours we spent in this room together, I come up with twenty-eight hours. It has been a powerful experience for me. It was very difficult for me to think of coming into a meeting like this. Sitting here and looking at these esteemed people that I respect so much. I still feel pretty much like the baby of the group in many ways. Like all of us, Bernadette’s movie, what I got out of this when I see these objects in the museum. I cannot touch them without feeling that it is a chord to my heritage. I see people in those objects. And this is part of why I say they are living. I see those people that strove and lived and died, for me in every stitch in those objects. We haven't commented here on Indian humour, which is so inherent to everything there. Nothing is made in silence. It is made with joy and with expression of that joy and laughing. What was the most what I got out of, I was up to say: Some really nice places to eat, besides the University Cafeteria. But I didn't know if the Indian Humour would go over. Some of the things I made notes of reminded me. It's a sense of hope. I do come out with a sense of hopefulness.
I have been reminded of the sacredness and the power of words. It was amazing to see a whole documentary in an indigenous language. A majority of my family, my group in Montana, we have a 97 percent lost language. And so the only thing left to us is English. We are starting to get back our languages, but we don't have it. If you go and ask the elders what something is, the most common response is: "We no longer have a word for that.” And that makes me sad. Second, I have been amazed to understand how incredibly difficult it is to step outside our own point of view, and look at it from another point of view. It's like the old saying: Don't judge somebody, until you have walked a mile in their moccasins. And every time you point at somebody, you need to remember that there are three fingers pointing back at you. It is very easy to look with a critical eye at the past and say: "Look what they did, we didn't do that." We weren't in that time. I was reminded of the things I was told I should live by. These are just concepts to live by: love, respect (Thank you for talking about respect, Jane) cooperation, generosity, humility, reciprocity, sharing.
Aviâja Rosing Jakobsen: First of all I want to thank you, because I forgot to say that in the morning. Many things are already said by the other participants. I would also like to say Thank you to Bernadette. You took the elders to see the objects so close, which they thought were gone. And also, Thank you, Franci, for telling us that you were brought up to these storytellers. This is also a way to continue our cultural heritage. And also, Samoe and Basja: Good luck to you and your project. It is a good way, not to start from the upper level but with the local communities. And also thank you, Cunera, for involving us into this photograph project.