Woodland Cree

I will talk about Darlene Auger, Dr. Darlene Auger.

She's the one who did, she's Woodland Cree, but she was with a partner for a long time who was Plains Cree.

So she's fluent in both Plains and Woodland Cree.

But she always wants me to say I'm Woodland Cree, though Renelta.

So she is.

But she was our she is our language translator.

So the retro 16-millimeter film aesthetics are far from the coolest thing about his fireworks.

One of the coolest things I think from Henry Lewis' work was when he was speaking to Woodland Cree and Dene elders about how they would use fire to melt the frost in the ground, and I've seen actually a few kind of Western science studies lately on that, but that's actually an older technique that the communities would use.

So you get kind of all the dry grass on top of a meadow or something, and they would go and burn that in the really early spring because that's the most important thing about indigenous burning, is the time to burn, when it's safe to do a good fire.

fire.And they would, that would then turn that level, that grass into, you know, black.

I'm on the lands of the Michif Metis Nation and on the lands of the Nehiwak, Anishinabek, Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota peoples, which is also called Pile of Bones.

And I'm Kristen Rodier, recording today from Amis Quahisquican, the homelands of the Plains Cree, the Woodland Cree, the Beaver Cree, the Ojibwe, and the Metis, also called Beaver Hills House.

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I'm Corinne Lajoie, recording from Djo Dja Dje, Montreal, on the unceded lands of the Mohawk Nation, which are also a gathering place for many First Nations today.