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EDUCATION – TRANSMISSION<\/strong><\/p>\n

There was a time when the transmission of knowledge was natural. The principle of survival stronger than everything. To learn how to live in the woods and in tents, one had to learn how to tan caribou skin, weave snowshoes, fish with a harpoon, and bake bread in ashes. We educated children through example. They learned through observation. Given that all of this was necessary.<\/p>\n

Recognition of the role of Wise man or Elder is not a matter of age. Our Wise men are conveyers of stories, narratives, traditions, they are guardians of our culture.<\/p>\n

Children also have an important place in our societies whose cohesion is ensured through respect rather than through authority. It is with their parents that children learned, by living in their shoes and discovering for themselves why they had to obey. A parent’s role is to guide, without imposing, so as not to interfere with the spirits which also guide the child.<\/p>\n

The Circle of Life<\/p>\n

Children are very important within the territory. They are the core. Before birth, they are in the round belly, they are born in a round tent, they warm up to a circular fire, to the chant of a circular drum. They eat round bread, bannock. Year after year, their travels within the land have them circling to return to the earth at the end of their lives. Day by day, throughout the seasons, children realize that they are part of nature. Grandparents tell children \u201ccome hunting with us, you can observe and later, when your turn comes, you will be ready, you will be able to hunt. One day, you will be able to perform our actions.\u201d They must learn about the animal, not be afraid of it and respect it.<\/p>\n

Anne-Marie St-Onge, Innu<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From the creation of reserves, from the sudden change in lifestyle, such knowledge has become an accessory. And since school was the school of life, transmission no longer had any support, neither in practice nor in the leading function of things to be built.<\/p>\n

We have to experiment culture in order to learn it.<\/p>\n

Quentin Condo, Mi\u2019gmaq (Micmac)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The education practiced by Europeans upon their arrival was much stricter than traditional education and the shock of residential schools was even greater for our children.<\/p>\n

The games children partake in during the early stages of life while sitting in the sand are actually the game of playing at life. With their small wooden caribous, at each stage of the game they must learn something: the male caribou, the female, the herd, to follow the caribou into its territory, to contact the animals\u2019 spirits using various tools to talk to them, the drum, amulets, monoculars (an empty stick through which only you can see, in the distance), burned shoulder blades, the caribou fetus that you must cook and offer to Elders, the shaking tent, the white caribou hide, all things that are offered to you by nature. To rest or heal, after a long journey or a significant effort such as a long portage, the sweat tent offers you some relief because it is purifying. We also take part in this practice before a portage to reduce body weight. It seeks the energies of the great fathers.<\/p>\n

Anne-Marie St-Onge, Innu<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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