{"id":731,"date":"2017-04-17T10:20:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T14:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/naskapis\/11-temps\/"},"modified":"2018-05-06T15:27:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T19:27:24","slug":"11-temps","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/en\/naskapis\/11-temps\/","title":{"rendered":"11 &#8211; Temps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>IT&#8217;S ABOUT TIME<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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 <a class=\"lightbox_trigger\" href=\"#\" data-description=\"In a Christian community, if you planned a gathering at night on Saturday, at midnight, the priest were coming saying 'ok, it's Sunday, shut the thing down'. It's Saturday night, the sun hasn't risen to be Sunday. It's just because of Midnight, just because of a clock. If you're out on the land, it doesn't matter what minute it is; it's Saturday.\">watches<\/a> 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 <a class=\"lightbox_trigger\" href=\"#\" data-description=\"What I find funny today, even with the clocks, is that people will walk late to work, and might even leave early. They don't take it seriously, and they shouldn\u2019t have to. And so I think, when it comes to the clock, Native people are like 'ah, 9 o'clock, whatever I'll show up at 9:15'. Also right now in Indigenous communities, there's just no consequence. You show up late, you don't get fired! If you get fired, you are going to work next door. The clock hasn't taken the grip that it has on the rest of society, because we don't depend on each other, we've always been independent, even though we helped each other. In the city, if the bakery is not opened at 7, I don't get my bread at 7:15. I depend on the baker, or on whatever I need to get done, I can't do anything single-handedly, I need to depend on other persons. People need each other in that way in order to survive. On the land, you didn't depend on 'John' to go goose hunting at 3pm, you just go! At this point, it's two very different cultures and I don't know if they can be married. In the communities, it's the same thing! Nobody needs anybody to get anything done because life is so slack! You didn't get your fax at 3, so what? We're on the 55th parallel; nothing's going to happen if you don't get your fax, life still happens! People get frustrated with it. I feel it's more administrative than anything. Nobody needs to depend on each other for anything to happen in a such small remote community. As long as they get together at some point. But that 'indian time' regards a certain type of Natives though honestly. Back home, when we have meetings like council meetings, the elders are there, they're cooking cookies, if the meeting is at 9, they are there at 8. It's a certain generation that is in between, that either doesn't go hunting, or doesn't prioritize it the way the elders do, so there's this slack area where there is one generation or two, they are like 'so what, I'm not going to die if I don't show up at this meeting'. The elders know that if you have that attitude, back one day when you were out on the land, people could die if you don't go get your fish that day. Back then, life was different. You had to do what needed to be done per day, by the day, for your family or you risk dying. That generation of elders have faced the starvation brought about by the Hudson Bay Company. These elders have that survival instinct, they've always had it. That's the reason they are elders now, they survived winters.\">Indian Time.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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 <a class=\"lightbox_trigger\" href=\"#\" data-description=\"Nuclear reactor is a generator of electricity. I translated it as an electrical plant, because we don't have the words for molecular level, yet. I had to do a whole presentation in Mistissini and translate the presentation on uranium. They get to radons, and I was wondering how can I translate this. I had to basically say 'something that blows in the air that is so small you can't see it'. In these cases, or you just use the English words, or you try to explain. It's just the functionality of the things, you don't need to know what a nuclear plant does in a nuclear level, you just need to know that it makes electricity.\">nuclear reactor<\/a> in <a class=\"lightbox_trigger\" href=\"#\" data-description=\"For 'Japan', because up North, the only thing people know about Japanease is the kong-fu movies we've seen on HBO; one of the words (nobody actually uses it) means 'the kickers', because of the kong-fu, 'the people that kick'. I didn't use that term in the text! I just used 'Japan'. I know in Cree the Russians are the 'bear people', the American are 'the land of big swords', Canada is just Canada. Because the monolingual people, the people that lived on the land, they didn't have access to this international information. Our government have only existed since forty years. So I think we're getting there.\">Japan<\/a>, so far, to the local mining operations, so near, the impacts will affect several generations, seven according to our philosophies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT&#8217;S ABOUT TIME We do not believe that we possess time; we do not divide it into units called seconds, minutes and hours. 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