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You have to go to school like why do you have to go to school when this is your culture namoya wiya ewako niya nitâpweten.  ekota mihcetwâw kâpômet nehiyaw osâm mayaw kîkway wîtôtahkik poko we have to go to school and this is tânehki ayisiyiniw takiskinohamâkosit wiya âsay they were born like that already. ewako ohci niya niteyihten mâna mihcetwâw kâpômehk kikway.\n\nInterviewer: (1:54)\n\nekwa kiya you value the knowledge that you learned from your grandmother\n\nVerna Orr Orr: (2:01)\n\nmhmm yup ewako ohci niya metoni nikakwe-ayicimiciminen ninehiyâwiwin nimamihcisin enehiyaweyân.  tahki ayiwâk enatinamatakohk it is disappearing ayisk osâm namoya awiyak enâkatohket .\n\nInterviewer:  (2:24)\n\nFor you to make moose hides, do you hunt yourself?\n\nVerna Orr: \n\nehe, yup mâka poko wâhyaw we have to travel osâm kahkiyaw kîkway ehatipîkonikâtehk.\n\nInterviewer: (2:44)\n\nkîkwây mâka ôma kâti-pîkonikâtehk?\n\nVerna Orr Orr:  (2:47)\n\naskiy mistahi epîkonikâtehk the land and then kiyânaw  ôma kânehiyaweyahk mihcetwâw mâna enâkateyihtamân môniyâw kîkway epihcwepinahk tanôtinitoyahk and then ekwa anima ekwa ekota  epihcowepinât ahpô sôniyâwa ekota ekwa ayisiyiniwak nôtinitotwâw ekwa ekâ pita enâkatohketwâw kîkway ehitahkamikaniyik kîkway ehitâkamikisiyit môniyâwa. ekosi isi enitaweyimikotwâw kanôtinikotwâw pita kîsinôtinitotwâw asay ekota nete wâhyaw nete ayât môniyâw.  ekweyâc ekota ekoskopayihk.  poko kamâmawikâpawiyahk that is the only way ahpô kanitohtâkawinaw mâka wîstaŵaw takîkiskeyihtakwâw âta. Kiskeyihtamwak âta tân’si itâkamikisitwâw mâka sôniyaw money is very important to people.  mihcetwâw mâna tâpiskoc doctors itwetwâw mâna ‘critical’ ekwa tân’spî mâka tanakîtwâw. âsay mistahi askiy meskocipayiw ewako ohcitaw ewako anima aya it was a mother the creator wiya kahkiyaw kîkway ekîpakitinahk ekwa sôkwâc ta-ahkami-itonamihk kahkiyaw kîkway namoya miywâsin ewako anima.  ekwa ketisk poko kakîhotinaman apsis kîkway kânitaweyihtaman mâka ana wiya môniyâw ketisk apsis kîkway emiyit isko nete metoni nete ehitâpit isko ekote epîkoniket. \n\nekwa tâpiskoc kôtinaman kîkway ohcitaw ayisk cistemaw ewako ana kânîkânohtet wiya ewako kâwîpîkiskwestamâsk namoya aya namoya mistahi kakî-ati-pîkonikân sôskwâc tân’si ehiteyihtaman. Wiya ohcitaw kahkiyaw ekoni epakitinahk.  kahkiyaw tâpacihtât ayisiyiniw.  ekwa tâpiskoc ekwa niya ôki nôsisimak ekwa nicâpânak tânsi ekwa wiyawâw ispayitwâw takayiwâk ôma kîkway kâti-pîkonikâtehk. \n\nâsay nîsta mistahi niwâpahten emeskocipayik it changed a lot since I was a kid Wabasca wî mâna misiwe kîsakâw. namoya kâtâc wâhyaw ketohteyan to go hunt when I was a kid because they used horses just to travel a day to go out hunting mâka ekwa anohc namoya ekwa ekosi kakî-itôtamak wiyawâw because the oil companies are just killing everything sôskwâc…poko kîkway tônôtonitowiht. Ekwa ekota ekwa aya ekweyâc kâkîsinôtinitok ekwa asây wâhyaw wiyawâw ayâtwâw ekosi ehisinitaweyihtakwâw. \n\nkinakatikonawâk pâpîkonahkik wiya ekosi isi enitaweyihtahkwâw.  asây ekosi wiyasiwâtâkwâw they planned it already.\n\n(7:03) ekota peyakwan mîna ekosi isi piskihcipitâkwâw sôskwâc ayisiyiniwa aya.  Namoya niteyihten niya tâpiskoc mâna kayâs wiyawâw itwetwâw residential school mâna. peyakwan I think it is the same. keyâpic the government is doing the same thing but they are just wording it different like kîspin mweci peyakwan kahkiyaw awiyak episkihcipitiht everybody just divided in groups ekwa peyakwan mîna peyakwan ekosi isi nôtinitotwâw ekosi mîna ewako ehitastehk wîstawaw tanôtinikehtwâw ekâ kakwemâmawikâpawiyahk tâpiskoc peyakwan tâpiskoc kayâs. \n\nnamoya ekwa mistahi meskocipayiw peyakwan ehitôtahk …the government so we are doing the same thing wiya kahkiyaw kîkway kânîkânîstahk ekwa âsay mihcetwâw kîkway aya mihcetwâw ahpô mâna mihcetwâw mâna enakateyihtamân meetings kâyâtwâw kâtepwâtâkwâw kape-itohtetwâw meetings sâsay ekîsiwiyastâtwâw tepiyâ katisk epewihtâkwâw tân’si kâwîhisiwepiniketwâw ekwa namoya kîkway kahitâpatan. \n\n Why can’t they involve us there when they have these meetings?  Because nehiyawak wiya kiskeyihtahk wiya tân’si isi askiya ôma kâhisipîkonamihk.  tân’si isi pîkonâkwâw.  namoya wiyawâw kiskeyihtamwak ketisk wiyawâw maps ekinwâpahtekwâw. ekâ wihkâc they don’t come out here to see what they are doing to the land.  mihcetwâw ekwa anima ekota âsay they made their decisions already and they just come in and tell us.  So âta ekwa niyanân voice lots of times we try to have a voice but the plan was made already so namoya kîkway tâpatan katâc ekosi isi not unless they call us to be in the meeting so they would be more understanding. namoya nikiskeyihten tân’si ka-isi-miyopayik","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1775/collection_resources/97995/file/259576#t=0.0,634.00838"}]},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1775/collection_resources/97995/file/259576/transcript/73843","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["English Translation- Elder Verna Orr (15/04/2018) [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1775/collection_resources/97995/file/259576/transcript/73843/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Verna Orr\n\nVerna Orr (","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1775/collection_resources/97995/file/259576#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1775/collection_resources/97995/file/259576/transcript/73843/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":")\n\nMy name is Verna Orr and I am from Wabasca.  I was not raised like that because the white person tried to fool the Cree, all of them he was treacherous, he did everything like that.  Everyone, as I continue working everyone is carrying a cell phone.  That is why I am thinking everything is starting to break down.   Everything like that maybe there are not enough teachers to teach is also what I think.\n\nInterviewer (1:11)\n\nYou’re a teacher?\n\nVerna Orr: Yes, when we are going to begin to do something we have to have a certificate that is what we are told.  You have to go to school like when this is your culture I don’t believe in that.  That is where the Cree give up because when they start to do something they have to – we have to go to school and this is – why does a person have to go to school when already – they were born like that already.  That is why I usually think that many times why we give up on things.\n\nInterviewer: And you, you value the knowledge that you learned from your grandmother.\n\nVerna Orr: Mhmm yup that is why I try very hard to hold on to my Creeness. I am proud to speak Cree.  Even more so, it is disappearing – it is disappearing because no one is looking after it.\n\nInterviewer: For you to make moose hides, do you hunt yourself?\n\nVerna Orr: Yes, yup but it has to be far – we have to travel because everything here is destroyed.\n\n\nInterviewer: What is this that is being destroyed?\n\nVerna Orr: The land is very much being destroyed – the land and then us, the ones that speak Cree. Many times I look after things the whiteman throws at us to fight over and then and that he also involves (throws) money in there and the people fight and they don’t pay attention to what is happening what the white man is up to.  And so they just want them to fight and then after a while when they are done fighting already the white man is far away.  That is when they wake up.  We have to stand together – that is the only way- maybe we will be heard but they should know that too as well.  Although they know what they are doing but money – money is very important to people.  Lots of times usually like doctors say usually ‘critical’  and when will they be gone.  Already the land has changed a lot that is the way it is – it was mother the creator he was the one who created everything and to just continue taking everything is not good.  You should only take a little of something that you need but that one the white person when he is given a little up to there but he looks over there and clears it all (destroys).  \n\n\n\nAnd also if you take something you have to put tobacco down it always comes first, that is the one that will speak for you.  You should not try to destroy things the way you think you want.  He gives everything – provided everything.  For people to use.  And like myself and these here my grandchildren and great grandchildren what is going to happen to them when this is being destroyed even more.  \n\nI, too, have seen lots of change – it changed a lot since I was a kid Wabasca at one time was all bush (forest).  You don’t have to go far – to go hunt when I was a kid because they used horses just to travel a day to go out hunting – but now today they can not do that – because the oil companies are just killing everything…everything for them to fight over.  And then just right then when they are done fighting they are far away that is what they wanted.    \n\nThey leave us like that, just to break everything for us, that is what they wanted.  They already had planned it – they planned it already.  \n\n\nAnd also in the same way they separate the people.  I don’t think it just like a long time ago they say residential schools.  Same thing – I think it is the same.  Still the government is doing the same thing but they are just wording it different like -  just like the same way everyone is divided – everybody divided into groups – and that is the same way they fight each other and that is what is said for them to fight so that we do not stand together like the same way a long time ago.\n\n\n\nThere are not very many changes…the government so we are doing the same thing he tries to run (head) everything and already lots of times, I usually pay attention at these meetings they have, that they call for to come to these -meetings already they have plans they just come there to tell you what they are planning to do so there is really no point in this.  \n\n\nWhy can’t they involve us there when they have these meetings? Because Crees they know how to clear this land. How they are going to break it. They don’t know they just use maps they look at. They never – they don’t come out here to see what they are doing to the land. That happens a lot they had already made their decisions already and they just come in and tell us.  So, although us, voice lots of times we try to have a voice but the plan was made already so there is not use for that – not unless they call us to be in the meeting so they would be more understanding. I don’t know how that is going to work.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1775/collection_resources/97995/file/259576#t=0.0,634.00838"}]}]}]}