Kitchi Nshinaabeg dibaataanaawaa Kitchi Nshinaabeg miji doodwindwaa – Elders talk about Elder Abuse in Ojibwe: PART TWO

Mishoo miinwaa Noki ~ You, Me and Wrinkles – The Elder Abuse Prevention Podcast

PART TWO: A recording of a private post-event conversation on May 18, 2022
Description:
This episode is in two parts.

This second installment captures the group's excited private conversation afterwards, as they expressed how liberating, important and impactful it was to talk. The conversation about issues, resources and solutions continues.

The first is the event itself. Silent no longer, in Part One five Anishinaabe Elders speak in their own language about what they have seen, what they know, from their life experience and work experience as community workers, teachers and individuals. This can be hard to listen to.
FROM THE EPISODE:
"Start somewhere!"
Jacob Wemigwans

"I see that this past hour recorded is going to be of value to our Nishnabemowin speaking community."
Colleen Wassegijig
"We have to start looking at ourselves at an equal level with the professionals. ...We need to bring ourselves up. We need to feel that empowerment ... The reason why I'm saying this is because for a long time growing up, we had to talk in English in front of Zhnagenash. ... We've always accommodated so much over our own best interests, our own morale, our own enlightenment. So I just like to point that out that we need to keep on bringing ourselves up. And we're not just tools to resource here. ... We're doing a great big thing here. This is really, uh, a big, a big ... I just can't get over that we've done it here tonight."
Dorothy Wassegijig Kennedy

It would be a good idea to listen to Part One first.
“…an incredible resource for programming/education – which can be utilized as a springboard into talking about these difficult issues.” — Tanya Coulter, M’Wikwedong Indigenous Friendship Centre

Resources:
Indian Residential School Survivors 24-hour Crisis Line at 1-800-721-0066
Ontario Seniors Safety Line: 1-866-299-1011
Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre: 1-888-495-8501
Talk4Healing: 1-888-200-9997 -- a helpline for Indigenous women across Ontario. Talk, text or chat .
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