{"id":1109,"date":"2017-07-25T05:02:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T09:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/?page_id=1109\/"},"modified":"2017-09-21T05:38:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T09:38:38","slug":"11-time","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/en\/english\/11-time\/","title":{"rendered":"11 – Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

IT’S ABOUT TIME<\/strong><\/p>\n

We do not believe that we possess time; we do not divide it into units called seconds, minutes and hours. Longer cycles govern our lives, passages from days to nights, the seasons, cycles of life and death. In the past, we did not have watches and took the necessary time for each activity. Traveling with young children took longer; we would set up camp wherever we stopped. This is what many call Indian Time.<\/p>\n

Back then, our people didn\u2019t have to think about time related work, about productivity of time regarding money. They decided to fish one day, and then to work on their objects, they focused all their time on that. They could pass months and months on a single object. They were proud of it afterwards.<\/p>\n

Quentin Condo, Mi\u2019gmak (Micmac)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This notion of time seen as a continuous movement, long and slow, sometimes creates a difficult convergence between our respective cultures. While modern life seeks to control through addition and subtraction, we are time, we drift with it. All of our myths express a vision of a world to be shared where everything is connected and basks in universal time where the past, present and future are intertwined, since everything that happens, even the smallest elements of this world has an impact on the others: from the explosion of a nuclear reactor in Japan, so far, to the local mining operations, so near, the impacts will affect several generations, seven according to our philosophies.<\/p>\n

Until the age of seven, I lived in the woods. We rarely stayed in a house; we lived in a tent or a log cabin. So that\u2019s where I grew up, in a tent, with fir branches. We nourished ourselves from nature. We took our time. It was not: \u201cWe\u2019re leaving; we’ll be there at such an hour.\u201d It was not like that. It was not time dictated by the clock but rather time for blueberries, time of fish, time of beaver. That\u2019s how it worked. They did not have a watch. When you left someplace, whether it took one, two or three weeks; it was the way of life.<\/p>\n

\u00c9douard David Kistabish, James Cananasso, Anishinabeg (Algonquins)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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