{"id":574,"date":"2017-04-16T14:40:50","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T18:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/eeyous-cris\/08-retour\/"},"modified":"2017-08-28T15:59:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T19:59:43","slug":"08-retour","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/en\/eeyous-cris\/08-retour\/","title":{"rendered":"08 &#8211; Retour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>BACK TO THE SOURCE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"lightbox_trigger\" href=\"#\" data-description=\"A Pow wow is a gathering event, it's about people getting together. I just called it 'Pow wow' because everybody calls it that way, that\u2019s the word everybody use. Some people say that it is an actual word, other say it doesn't mean anything. The ways the Pow wows are done, people dance in a celebratory fashion, some of it is traditional, some of it is ceremonial, a lot of it is commercial. Crees traveled across their territories and were getting together like the people do now. People gathered in the summer at the mouth of a river, at the mouth of a lake, and then they celebrated the fact that they survived during the winter.\">Pow wows<\/a> allow us to gather together and share. For everything that they encompass has somewhat of a sacred, protective and personal quality. It is not only the folklorization of culture. There is nothing to sell, nothing to photograph. Everything is sharing, demonstrating. Each object in itself represents a sign, a symbolic power.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"lightbox_trigger\" href=\"#\" data-description=\"A Pow wow is a gathering event, it's about people getting together. I just called it 'Pow wow' because everybody calls it that way, that\u2019s the word everybody use. Some people say that it is an actual word, other say it doesn't mean anything. The ways the Pow wows are done, people dance in a celebratory fashion, some of it is traditional, some of it is ceremonial, a lot of it is commercial. Crees traveled across their territories and were getting together like the people do now. People gathered in the summer at the mouth of a river, at the mouth of a lake, and then they celebrated the fact that they survived during the winter.\">Pow wows<\/a> are a <a class=\"lightbox_trigger\" href=\"#\" data-description=\"At the Cree museum in Ouj\u00e9-Bougoumou, they have a Cree beaded hood. It's very simple, it's a square path but once we put in on the head it's like a little pointing hat. We've lost, we forgot what it looks like when it's worn, I've never seen it worn in a Cree nation, but we know it's part of the history. And then I went to Eskasone, a Mi'gmaq community, and at that Grand Entry, at the very end there were four elderly women and they had pointed hat like that, beaded and embroided, and I remember thinking 'wow, they are so beautiful', and my sister and I were kind of emotional about it because our people has those, why don't we wear them? But then, we started talking and realizing that we believe that every nation couldn't sustain everything in their culture, because we've all been assimilated to some degree. But in the Mi'gmaq nation, they have those pointing hats and as Cree people : 'that's what they look like, that's what they feel like', it's as if the Mi'gmaq would help us rediscover those hats. There's a legend, there's a character called 'Atsen' in Great Whale and Chisasibi, the next community to the south. We lose it after Waskaganish and Wemindji, and they're nearby. These other communities never heard about this character. I went to Maliotenam, and we were talking about legends and ceremonies, and I asked 'is there a character named 'Atsen' here?' And the lady said 'yeah, Atsen, the guy that eats everybody right, the cannibal?' I was like 'yeah, and how come you guys have this character, way over here, but our own people don't have it to the south?'. So there's connections, across all the nations in some way, we just kind of forgot them. Rediscovering them that's what's exciting. There's things we can discover in each other that would help; every nation has a piece of the puzzle. \">framework of exchange<\/a> allowing some kind of colorful renaissance of our identity.<\/p>\n<p>A certain agitation is produced, an amalgam of knowledge, signs and symbols that are conveyed by the different nations. <a class=\"lightbox_trigger\" href=\"#\" data-description=\"A Pow wow is a gathering event, it's about people getting together. I just called it 'Pow wow' because everybody calls it that way, that\u2019s the word everybody use. Some people say that it is an actual word, other say it doesn't mean anything. The ways the Pow wows are done, people dance in a celebratory fashion, some of it is traditional, some of it is ceremonial, a lot of it is commercial. Crees traveled across their territories and were getting together like the people do now. People gathered in the summer at the mouth of a river, at the mouth of a lake, and then they celebrated the fact that they survived during the winter.\">Pow wows<\/a>, as well as this knowledge-sharing dimension, are intrinsically linked. To reconnect with practices which have been left behind for so long, expanding the boundaries of knowledge necessarily becomes a matter of cultural survival. These events therefore intend for knowledge to be somewhat nomadic, as it allows for many people to find and take upon themselves this lost connection to a common identity. The nations mingle, share amongst themselves and thus bring together in their own way specific traditions, a rich and pure wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>Regalias reflect this passion, this pride and a desire to belong. Through their preparation and their ritualistic wearing, our young people rediscover, identify and spiritualize themselves; giving meaning to their existence and their difference, a meaning needing no words, which emerges through actions, through praxis. This return to traditional practices, such as dances and drum chanting are once again closely linked to the communion of beings and spirits, to the respect for life as the cornerstone of any reflection on the world and to the importance we must attribute to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BACK TO THE SOURCE Pow wows allow us to gather together and share. 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