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two rivers remix emerged from the grass roots in 2018 a free outdoor feast of

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contemporary indigenous music on le captain territory at clem teen also

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known as litton bc [Music]

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two rmx 2018 to 2019 featured live indigenous musicians new voices

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empowering and inspiring indigenous people and all nations especially our youth to tell their own stories so here

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i am here doing what i can do what you see just a little bit of what i’ve been through my body my land time to ban the

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man camps time to take a stand my pack sack which drive me to no

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good stack got long praising good sage i think about what i say have a smudge i

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think you should take a deep breath and then see the wood see the truth behind the dies now said it before seen beyond

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they brought the lines well get ready for war see crooked cops and politicians living off the podiums but do they prostituted to the point she can’t give

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more in the 2020 summer of covid two rmx adapted to the adversity of the pandemic

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i want to welcome you to the virtual feast two rivers remix edition here online uh we’re really happy to have you

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here we have a stellar awesome amazing lineup of indigenous artists and musicians here uh to nourish your needs

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for music here in this uh strange summer that we’re in and so we hope to see you right back here uh get

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yourself a drink get yourself something to munch out on and join us here at the virtual feast two rivers remix edition

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[Music]

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where did she go where did she go [Music]

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[Applause] [Music]

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focusing on supporting indigenous artists we streamed a full pre-pandemic

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schedule of artists online at our september 2020 to rmx three-day feast

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[Music]

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two rmx also led a collaboration of bc indigenous arts presenters to create

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virtualfeast.ca an indigenous online platform spotlighting and supporting streaming of

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contemporary indigenous performance

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[Music]

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in 2020 two rivers remix launched decolonize 2.0 a streaming music event

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commemorating the 110th anniversary of the declaration of interior chiefs when

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the captain and seal nations unified to resist the theft of their unseated lands

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in summer 2021 two rmx will launch a virtual feast live

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stream tour visiting and showcasing artists from various bc nations

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[Music] the summer will culminate with another

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incredible lineup at our two rmx live streaming feast september 4th to 6th

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we want you to get on up now in 2021 110 years later

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we continue to honor the lands and waters that sustain us

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we are still here the land is the same as our life

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[Music]

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no sick

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[Music]

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hey everybody my name is scalia my english name is christy charles aka miss christie lee it’s such an honor to be

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here at the two rivers remakes winter festival this afternoon thank you for having me

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i descend from hethalamat and satsamkin from mosquiam i have ancestral lineage

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to tsulewa tooth and skohomish as well i have my daughter hoya here today and

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i’m so proud of all my beautiful children hi tsepka everyone let’s dance and let’s sing i’d like to introduce and

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welcome uh my beautiful friend shaman which goes

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um lady sincere queen snap um what i say was welcome to the village

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of homalchisten welcome to holmes territory my ancestral name is shamasot i come

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from the skulmish nation and then this guy nation and um

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my stage name is lady sincere welcome to two rivers remix

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hi it’s goodness yeah yeah we have a little bit of a mix a remix to share with you today

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we’re going to start it off with a couple uh drum songs i’m going to share a song from our muskriam family this is

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watitsap it’s atmosteo it means welcome all the good people

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[Music]

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oh

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[Music]

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oh

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[Music]

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that was welcome all the good people now we’ll

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do a little switch

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now to sing a song from this komish nation this song comes from solya

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and the song is the snowbird song as we’re in the winter time now this is time to honor the wintertime

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and the snowbirds [Laughter]

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[Music] oh

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[Music]

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[Applause] [Music]

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[Music]

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oh [Music]

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boy [Music]

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anna

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i’m giving thanks that that we’re able to be here and pray that

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we will be able to take care of things in a good way for the coming generations

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salute meet mr gugby in my language in the show

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i’m from the schwab territories um i was born in williams lake sugar cane

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i’m a great grandmother and my my name in my language is

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interpreted as woman surrounded by chiefs my english name is vivian sandy

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i’m very honored to be here to be able to share

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our very beautiful traditions in our culture that

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honors the winter solstice and spring and summer

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the four seasons as in our in our own lives we have four

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seasons like myself i’m a great grandmother and

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i find myself in the fourth season where i sit quietly and

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before i be jumping all over like i talked about in my 20s and protesting john wayne and just all kinds

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of stuff and i was a youth at that time

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and i’m very honored to be here to to support the youth that are um

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wanting to share with our with the peoples

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the importance of acknowledging for instance this winter solstice that

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we’re in now to

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introspect a time to i’m from the bear clan

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and we go within and and look

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shuffle around and prepare for the the

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the new time and this is where in in the shah

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i was taught by elders in my twenties

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because we’re related all the way down to california the shushwa language goes all the way down there

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so we’re related all the way down there in longhouse the

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were longhouse people with the songs and the dance and the paint

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but the government they totally wiped that out and now there’s people that songs are coming to

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them and and we come out and and the spirit shows us how we dress like

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how you see me when i’m ready to sing in the winter

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time to welcome the new year to prepare for it the spirits

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want me dressed like this with the scarves and they love and the song they love the

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scarfs and i was taught that

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i’m only a caretaker of these songs these sacred songs

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and i follow what they ask because when when they come out they do their healing

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they help the people or whatever we’re praying for we pray all night long

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dancing singing sharing the food the medicines the water

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the fire the feathers the sage the sweet grass

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all these are sacred

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especially that water not fire all these are a part of us

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there’s no separation and so in the winter time

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we prepare ourselves i prepare myself

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i look at my life i look at where i need to improve myself to make sure that i

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carry these songs in an honorable way

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all through the year we collect

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gifts that we would like to give away in honor

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of the songs and and the work that

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our spirits our ancestors do and help us do through us and through

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these things and and what we do to

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continue to share for the coming generations

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the way i was taught was that were the highest percentage of water

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our bodies and our bodies they come from mother earth

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everything that we eat everything that we drink everything that we wear everything that we use all the different

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medicines come from mother earth

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in my life some in my language

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were very pitiful as human beings

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all other things know their place and they do what they do until they get called home but us we we

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have a free mind we have allowed to make decisions and choices

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and that’s where we struggle with the mental

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but they say with the water all these instruments helps us mentally physically emotionally spiritually

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for that whole for the balance and the way i was taught were these

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things these instruments just like ourselves myself i’m an

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instrument you’re an instrument every one of you is an instrument each

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one of us has a gift and we and we learn to bring those out

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and share them on behalf of all of creation

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all the ceremonies that we have that our ancestors were given and they took care of

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are the ones that we hold today i was given a sweat lodge in in

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the late 70s and i was told don’t ever change

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anything in there and i don’t and the healing that comes about

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in in taking care of these sacred things are miracles that happen

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that’s why i i keep believing in the young people prophecies talk about that

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the young people will will help the nations through the arts

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and that’s what’s happening today and so

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there are many ceremonies that i’ve traveled

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and been participated in from here to south america and the water and the canal the fire the

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feathers the sage the sweet grass and even they say why we use the abalone shell

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because the ocean listens to us through the shell

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so our ancestors were shown and they took care of these things

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why we haven’t today

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and it’s very important to me that through the audio through the things

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that we’re doing that we can share with the coming generations

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because i find when young people when you take the time to share with them these ceremonies they’re the ones that

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are taking care of them today because when i was 20 years old i was

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showing the shown these and i learned how to take care of them and they’ve helped me

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and so part of in the winter time

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we prepare for for the new year

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in ourselves around us and through our our ceremonies like

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the song that i’d like to share is a ceremony that we have

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the long house where the sacred tree stands in the middle

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and our songs we call i had a dream one time

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i go elders would take me to these different ceremonies in the wintertime

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and i got invited to a man’s ceremony and i didn’t feel comfortable with him

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but i went anyhow

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and i went anyhow and then they wanted to

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put me in a room to sleep and i said no i’ll sleep on the floor here where the ceremonies are

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and i had a dream and in the dream the voice told me that

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man was sitting across from me in the dream and the floor there the sacred floor

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and the voice told me says see that man over there

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you don’t have any powers he might talk around and say he can do this and not but

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he don’t have any powers when we’re praying and singing in here he says the medicine comes from up there

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so i looked up and it was like a hole in the middle but i could see all these uh

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dancers the same as us down here in a circle but they were in a circle up there

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and i could see them and they were all ancestors

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and then this lady knelt down and through that hole or whatever she

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handed me a book so he took the book

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and that voice said that’s where the healing comes from

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so i’m sharing that to how i have the

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faith to carry on because you say oh we got to believe you

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know we gotta and we do and so i always try to think how how are

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we able to reach the children today to help them to have faith to to believe and want to

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take care of these ceremonies so that we can continue on so

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that my great granddaughter will be able to hold this

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so like i say i ha i have to conduct myself in a healthy way at all times

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and so when we sing our songs in the winter time there’s different songs

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like i have a song that that talks to the light that comes from mother earth

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the light that she has and the light that we have

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on on the surface and how the light from the creator

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shines and so those three are like that

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when we pray and we work to be in balance we we lighten we brighten that light

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which which helps us brighten so there’s many things

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that go with all the different ceremonies

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and one of the biggest things is like through the year we gather like

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myself i gather stuff i see something go oh that’ll be nice somebody will enjoy

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that and i buy that and i put it away we gather through the year like that and then when we get to sing our song

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like i i want to share a song with you to encourage you to to let you know you’re

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in a good place that you’re at the right place at the right time whether you learned or

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not when you were young or or it was snatched from you but creator still finds a place for you to learn and open

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up and share and be happy so that’s what we make lots of wishes

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when we when we give away at this time

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and so on behalf of these

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and being grateful that as a great grandmother the time of my life that

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creator could have pity on me and i i have a bright mind yet

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i have a good healthy body my spirit i’m happy about who i am what

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what i can do spiritually um

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i’m willing to share willing to learn all these different things

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and so

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but i will share this song and then i’d like to hand these out as giveaway

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even thanks for for this new year coming that all things that we’ve struggled

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with the obstacles that we could leave him here and carry on

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so i’d like to hand these out so i’ll begin with my song and

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encourage all our young people

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so

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so [Music]

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so [Music]

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okay

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so

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[Music]

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foreign

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[Music]

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knife

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audrey

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nissan

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creator grandmothers

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grandfathers [Music]

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all my relations [Music]

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this is your granddaughter nagohindak

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i ask that the spirits come

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and open their arms for our healing [Music]

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to bring medicine through water

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chew messy tone

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your father [Music]

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now

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[Music]

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hmm [Music]

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ah [Applause]

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[Applause] [Music]

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to digi

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performs ceremony

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singing melodically to the salish seas

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to the creeks and streams

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save dreams

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unveil the spirit world

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cloak

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bales [Music]

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and oak

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[Music]

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water medicine

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washing and cleansing

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growing and sensing

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healing retention

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[Music] this feeling

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rooted deep into my soul

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[Music] webs [Music]

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of veins [Music]

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flowing with new and ancient

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[Music] [Applause]

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my books [Music]

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and break waves

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[Music] oh

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[Music]

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look past fear

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witness water sparkle

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ancestors here they matriarchal

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[Music]

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cedar bow swishing

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swishing swishing swishing

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[Music] cleansing

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tradition [Music]

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the rain has come now listen

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the rain has come [Applause] now listen

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[Music] the rain has come

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now listen [Music]

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the rain has come

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now listen

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we’re on a journey and barking vision

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time to make a decision

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time to envision healing

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[Music] this grief

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comes in waves

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tsunami a pain

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[Music] [Applause] [Music]

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memories to blame

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beautiful reigns in torrential

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taking us by surprise [Music] as happiness often does

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stunning in its beauty [Music]

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[Applause]

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our connection will

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never be broken

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great copper to show dissatisfaction

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we’re discussed like it’s fashion

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blue stairs linked snares

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trap line passion we land back

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happiness [Music]

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our children pick up the broken pieces

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that have been chipped away by shame

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[Music] the youth create mosaics

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neon flame [Laughter]

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calling it spirits and healing rain

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we give our pain the ancestral terrain [Music]

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the rain has come now listen

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[Music]

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reigns

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[Music]

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[Music]

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george went home tonight traveling on a beam of light

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[Music]

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today marks the end journey safely my friends

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[Music] i guess you couldn’t make it through

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till morning [Music]

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oh george is [Music]

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i sit and write the song about how you make me feel like i belong

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[Music]

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i shared your gifts so willingly all the songs you sang with me

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i decided to sing with me yeah and everyone who loves

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[Music]

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george traveling lights he left for home tonight

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[Music]

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send me a signal me know that you’re okay

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let me know that you’re safe that you’re not far away

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[Music]

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we all put tobacco down [Music] and

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have found peace

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we all pray that you found peace if only george you knew

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[Music]

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how much we love you [Music]

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taryn’s nickname when he was a little boy was george

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okay i’m going to do a song that i wrote for my father when he passed

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now it’s not a sad song it’s a happy song

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[Music]

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there is a place where i keep you

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up in a frame on the wall in my bedroom

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that is a place where you can stay

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[Music] near to my heart darkness can make you

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go away you know cause you were my

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home you live in my veins

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you were my bones my dna

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there was a time when i was small

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you call me princess you’re indian princess i felt tall

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i’ll be in my place where you live now

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[Music] up in the stars far from this world i’m

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in and you were my home

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[Music]

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my dna [Music]

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no i won’t cry i won’t cry be in my place

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i’ll see you again [Music] you’re up in the stars where the

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ancestors are dancing [Music]

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[Music]

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you live in my veins you live in my bed

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[Music]

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my [Music]

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my dna [Music]

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you’re my dna

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[Music]

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my

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[Music]

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thank you i’m so used to playing that with a band and having all kinds of drum fills and all kinds of crazy stuff going

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on um let’s see what could i do for you we are doing this concert today in honor

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of water sacred water i have a water song that i wrote and i’d like to sing

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it for you now it says i’m singing crew which is my ancestral

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language and what i’m seeing is water is sacred water is life

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and women are the keepers of the water

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[Music]

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[Applause] [Music]

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my [Music]

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my [Music]

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[Music]

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[Music] we

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[Music]

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no

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[Music]

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hey [Music]

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[Music] oh

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[Music] oh [Music]

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[Music]

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when

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[Music]

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my [Music]

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oh

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oh [Music]

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i want to keep that there

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so there’s this uh really cute native girl and these three native guys come along and they say

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wow look at that girl yeah i want to take her no i want to take her out she says hey i’ll go out with whoever can make the

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best sentence with the words liver and cheese in it so there’s three guys right let’s say a

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mohawk a cree and uh haida guy the haida guy says i hate

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liver but i love cheese mohawk guy says i love liver but i hate cheese the kree guy says hey

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let her alone she’s mine okay

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i think he got the date actually [Music]

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okay here’s a older song of mine that i wrote with my friend kenny starr

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[Music]

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the story is from the old ones who answered all my questions

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my generation was too afraid to speak about how hard

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it is to face our mistakes don’t always have what it takes to stay wrapped up

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propped up soaking it all up in the love we’re so deserving

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[Music]

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is

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[Music]

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faith in the power of faith in the seasons faith and spirit creators

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reasons four directions intersections we and sisters

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[Music]

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[Music]

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well i knew this guy and he was desperate his was a lonely

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[Music]

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knew that guy we got to remind one another why

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we need to believe in the river and her silver drum [Music]

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[Applause]

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[Music] faith in here is

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[Music] faith in humility

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faith in the power of faith and the seasons faith is spirit creators reasons

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four [Music]

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faith in the ground that holds us strong listening back to the old ones song

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coming up clear pushing elk us here and the water is cold and long and

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it’s a river rat it’s a teardrop when will we begin and when will we stop and

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it’s a river and it’s a teardrop when will we [Music]

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[Music]

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four directions into sections where ancestors meet

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[Music] have faith everyone have faith

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we’re gonna get through this pandemic dammit

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it’s a kitty star kind of moment here’s another one that we wrote

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we just wrote this one actually [Music]

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i am a weary traveler been traveling this road along

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[Music] where i am headed

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i am not sure so far no place has felt like home

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[Music]

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la [Music] oh

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[Music]

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[Music] i have no children you can see

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cause trauma had a hold of me

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[Music] each one is now a memory

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i keep on walking [Music]

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[Music] la [Music]

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i got no babies none you can see but you don’t know me you don’t know my

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journey i can still feel her standing beside me but i just wish she could

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write her own history but her days were cut short yeah i plead for it there’s

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never enough time to properly grieve it she’s a star system now

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and always [Music]

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[Music]

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oh [Music]

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oh [Music]

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i’m used to having people to interact with it’s kind of odd to be in a

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room like this

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so we got a real first dump of snow last night

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so the one tow truck in vancouver is very busy today okay so i’m gonna do another traditional

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song this is a song that ray thunder child gifted me people out here will know him as the

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bigfoot he comes from a very famous family of uh traditional singers the

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thunderchild singers and uh i’m only gonna do two rounds of

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it you know we do our songs four rounds right i mean you guys know that but for anybody

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that’s not indigenous but i’m only gonna do two rounds because it’s very long

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well

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hey

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[Music]

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we

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[Music]

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yay

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[Applause] [Music]

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oh [Music]

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[Music]

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oh

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we [Music]

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[Music] yay

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[Applause]

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[Music]

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hey

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for that song i’m gonna do a little song i wrote for um a little rattle song

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called uh oh my god i’m drawing a blank on the name of the stupid song it’s my song

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okay well i’ll just sing it

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[Music]

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um

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um [Music]

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[Music]

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well thank you why thank you stop clapping i can’t hear myself think okay

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um let’s see i’m gonna do one more song i think and

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um trying to decide song guitar song drum song rattle song

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which i i’m so confused um on that note i’m maki i’m one of those confused people i’m kris soto in

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french and i really don’t know if i’m coming or going

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okay and that seems to be the point where

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everybody comes in on this pretend indian thing is at the point of me tea

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well i want you to know i’m a real one all right

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real old swing song i wrote [Music]

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oh i’m a thousand miles from nowhere

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my heart’s in a fix my baby just packed the suitcase and is

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doing the permanent splits when the hurting’s over

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all is said and done

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[Music]

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in my left pocket and my heads up keeping tabs

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i’m looking out for danger from any stranger who might have

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me doing a double with trouble close behind

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i’m a thousand miles from nowhere doing time

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[Music]

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vacations [Music] no

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you don’t need a passport you don’t need id

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i said it’s all expenses paid yeah when your baby leaves and i’ll learn to

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do the rumba i drink you’ve been libras all night long

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what you see in the juicy hours before the break of dawn

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[Music] when the dancing’s over and everybody has gone home i’ll be a

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thousand miles from nowhere

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[Music]

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me

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[Music]

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do

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[Music]

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is were never my cup of tea

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no you don’t need a passport [Music] you don’t need id

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it’s all expenses paid [Music] when your baby leaves it i’m a thousand

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miles from nowhere and my heart’s in the face

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my baby just packed the suitcase and is doing the permanent doing the permanent

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splits when the hurting’s over all is said and done

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i’ll be a thousand miles [Music] [Applause] i’ll be a thousand miles

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[Applause] i’ll be a thousand miles from nowhere all along

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[Music]

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[Laughter] thank you so much everyone thank you for

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tuning in

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oh my people

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getting stronger our voice is won

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as loud as thunder [Music] our ancestors

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we love and honor live my life

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i’m a warrior how do you do welcome welcome welcome to the virtual feast

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here at the stein i’m your host ronnie dean harris aka oz 12 coming to you live

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from the heart of the inkling cop territory here in linton bc

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[Music]

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we can get stronger

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from the organizers uh from the community from the artists and from myself i want to put up my hands and a

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big high top i swallowed you all for joining us here at the virtual feast so please take care

1:14:12

of yourselves like share comment and all those things um thank you

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[Music]

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well you can’t go to heaven

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hello everyone welcome to the winter solstice festival my name is miss panic i’m going to play some tunes

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i wrote this song to honor the water cycle it’s brand new it’s called reigns

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come and i hope you enjoy it

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[Music]

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um [Music]

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me [Music]

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meow check it out check it out [Music]

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check it out [Music]

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i like the days when the rains come i like the day when the rain comes

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i like the days when the rains come i like the day when the rain comes i like

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the days when the rains come i like the day when the rain comes i like the days

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when the rain comes i like the day when the rain

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[Music]

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i rise up and unite all that’s living is one eye fall from the heavens the earth’s got connection i flow through

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forests rivers of intention i cycle through time i rise and repeat i am a

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master carver and expert weaver and as i flow i leave the masterpieces i complete

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over the centuries as i cut through mountains to see a natural cycle that repeats i rise up under the heat of the

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sun i condense information i rain down creation now

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rain down vibration i ease your frustration hydrate all creation

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i like the day when the rain comes i like the days when the rains

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come i like the days when the rains come i like the days when the rains come

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i like the day when the rain comes i like the day when the rains come

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[Music]

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[Music]

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check it [Music]

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i am the great transfigurated quench thirst of the greater i irrigate satiate in your cells i integrate alluviate my

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concentrate into the very veins where my flow leaves fertile planes and third dimensionality mineral frequency my flow

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is made of memory i carry in my history there’s very territory wisdom and pure energy from heaven i am sensitive this

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is what it’s meant to be fall into this reverie i rise up under the heat of the sun i condense

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information i rain down creation i rain down vibration i ease your frustrations

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hydrate all creation i like the day when the rains come

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when the rain comes [Music]

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like the day when the rains come i like the day when the rain comes i like the

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days when the rains come i like the day when the rain comes i like the day when

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the rays come i like the day when the rain comes i like the day when the rains

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come i like the day when the rain comes

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i like the [Music]

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love that check it water check it out

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i birth from the heavens make urban sky one eye flow through forests rivers of

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intention it’s water who bore us above and below us return to the ocean most

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potent a potion cycle through life most ancient wisdom over the centuries as i

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move towards earth endless cycles of rebirth endless cycles of rebirth

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[Music] [Applause] [Music]

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[Music] i like [Music]

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[Music] is one we are worth any fight i am

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beaming and strong and i fill up with light all that’s giving is love we are worth any i am streaming along till

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our eyes and unite all that’s living is one we are worth any fight i

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i like the day we’re in the rain

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i like the day when the rain comes [Music]

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[Music] i like the day when the rain

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comes i like the day when the rains come i like the day when the rains come i

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like the day when the rain comes rain comes rain comes rain comes the

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rain comes the rain comes the rain comes the rain comes the rain

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thank you very much that’s the first time i’ve ever performed that track um

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live out of my brain out of my phone and i got to come to north vancouver and i

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actually recorded a little bit of that beat last night just meditating that’s kind of what i do

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that’s how i create so this next song that i’m going to do for you is also

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kind of inspired by the circular systems of water and seasons

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all right that is the one so this next track that i’m going to

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share with you is called journey [Music]

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i’m going to make this beat with my traditional drum [Music] at this loop station goes like this

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[Music]

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[Music]

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take me back take me back take me back take me back take me back take me back

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take me back take me back take me back take me back take me back take me back take me back

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take me back take me back take me back take me back take me back

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take me back take me back take me back take me back take me back take me back

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take me back take me back take me back take me back take me back take me back

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take me back take me back take me back take me back take me back

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take me back take me back take me back take me back take me back take me back

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take me back take me back take me back

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take me back take me back to the beginning

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[Applause] [Music]

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this journey is a circle [Music]

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and where it stops it starts again

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this journey is a cycle

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and where it ends

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[Music] take me back take me back take me back

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take me back take me

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[Music] [Applause]

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this journey is a circle [Music]

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[Music]

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this journey [Music] [Applause]

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[Music] take me back take me back take me back

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take me back take me back take me back take me back take me back take me back

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take me back take me back take me back

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take me back take me back take me back take me back take me back take me back

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take me back take me back take me back

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take me back take me back [Applause]

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take me back take me back [Music] [Applause]

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[Music] [Applause] [Music]

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[Applause] take me back take me back to the beginning

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[Music]

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[Applause] [Music]

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[Applause] [Music] [Applause] take me back

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[Music] [Applause]

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[Music] [Applause] [Music]

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this journey is a circle oil

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and where it stops it starts again

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this journey is a cycle

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and where it ends it begins again

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[Applause] [Music]

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[Applause] [Music]

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[Applause] take me back take me back

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[Music]

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[Music]

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[Music]

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and where it stops it starts again

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this journey is a cycle [Music]

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and where it ends it begins again so take me back take me back take me back

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take me back take me back take me back take me back take me back

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take me back [Music]

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thank you very much um it’s exciting to share a little bit of new art with everybody

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and uh do something a little different um because i haven’t seen

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now that i’m seeing you in person but uh psychically we’re connected so

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i hope you’re feeling the vibe i want to give a shout out to two uh rivers remix and mika for organizing uh i’m gonna

1:29:35

move on to something a little bit different here and just switch up the energy

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and uh i’m gonna play you uh a track

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but it’s just gonna be with me and my drum oh that’s okay

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so i wrote this um quite a while ago now and it’s called open hearts and i think that

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in this time and age now with all of the things that we’re dealing with environmentally um

1:30:12

and just socio-culturally as people um that we need to start looking inside

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and and opening our hearts so this song is dedicated to everybody who’s doing that work

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[Music]

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it’s time for us to open our hearts

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it’s time for us to open our hearts

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look within that’s where it should begin use your third eye and open it wide

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and if you’re doing it right [Music] you will find the jewels inside

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[Music] we are abundant and we are riches as long as we

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learn to give [Music] what you put out you get back again

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on and on that cycle never ends

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[Music]

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hey i just wanted to do a little something like that my drum

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so this next song i’m going to do for you is actually called prayers and

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i want to just give gratitude for all the the water that we do have out here on the coast

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we’re very lucky um to have that a lot of places don’t so let’s uh dedicate this song to all the

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beautiful clean water that we have in bc uh so-called bc and uh and beyond and

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we should all be taking a stand to protect it so i pray that we all stand together and we do that

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[Music] and i would love a little bit more beat up in the monitors here so i can rock

1:32:27

out with you guys a little bit more goes like this

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[Music] i wake up in the morning and i open my

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eyes sun shining in god but feeling alive deep breath in as i look at the sky i

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feel my sweet soul with creations light [Music]

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i feel my sweet soul with creations light [Music]

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i feel my sweet soul with creations lighting i say i say

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and i say i say

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and i say i say [Music]

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and i say i say

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gratitude for the sun as she kisses my cheek i feel blessed for my tongue and the gift of speech i give thanks for my

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lungs as they let me breathe for a vessel that is healthy into mind at ease for a soul full of life and the way my

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heart beats i give thanks to the earth beneath my feet i got the

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sky over my head and my roots dug in deep i got two feet and a heartbeat walk

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in the path and i hope that mine will intertwine with yours soon and we can

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let our souls boom

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hey

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cause i wake up in the morning and i open my eyes sun shining in got me feeling alive deep

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breath in as i look at the sky i feel my sweet soul with creations light

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[Music] i fill my sweet soul with creations light

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i fill my sweet soul with creations light and i say i say

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and i say i say [Music]

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and i say i say

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and i say i say

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gratitude for the strength to speak my mind i feel blessed for every word that becomes a rhyme i give thanks for lots

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of rhythm every beat on time for every lesson that unfolds promotes growth and takes time to redefine your insights to

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match right with your soul

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that’s how we grow that’s how we grow we got two feet in a heartbeat walk in the

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path and i hope that mine will intertwine with yours soon and we can let our souls bloom let our souls bloom

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yay

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[Music]

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[Music]

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hey

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i’m imagining that there’s a crowd and there’s some applause happening which has been a really long time there’s some

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jazz hands happening in the background there um so i’m going to just keep moving

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along here i think i have a time for one or two more songs so i’m gonna

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one one more song okay um this next track is uh is called praxis

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and i hope you guys enjoy it it has a lot of words and i

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hope i get them right it goes like this yay

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yay [Music]

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[Music]

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and i said know what you do do what you know know what you do do do what you know

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know what you do do what you know listen

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[Music]

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well i’m sitting here trying to relocate my consciousness remember to own my own mind and it’s significance remember to

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open my eyes to the universe’s hint since trying to keep lost balance is often hit or missing if we don’t take

1:37:59

the time to listen to our hearts speak we might often find ourselves tongue-in-cheek cause it’s hard speaking

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our feelings if we don’t know what they are how do we take charge of a purpose or a worth to know the value of this

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earth take the time to know yourself it’s up to you and no one else know what you do do what you know listen

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to your inner voice in our city

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yeah yeah [Music]

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know what you do do what you know know what you do do do do what you know

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know what you do do what you know listen to your inner voice now let’s go

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right back to the start we’re sitting here learning to listen to our hearts as it speaks true and as he get to know you

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you can find out who you are and what you’re meant to do now speak to and represent some universal truth out of

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labor’s love your girl the sweetest of fruit and we can keep on top just by speaking our truths offer up solutions

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to be resolute in lasting revolution you see it’s time for all us youth to forget

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fallacy believe we be out planting our seeds and believe we be out digging up

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weeds believe me we can set each other free release the negativity take control

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and learn to lead take some action take some action take some action and repeat

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and i said know what you do do what you know know what you do to do what you know

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know what you do do what you know listen to your inner voice

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know what you do do what you know know what you do do do what you know

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know what you do do what you know listen to your inner voice now let’s go

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i was gonna do this verse but i’m gonna do something different [Music] yo yo

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well i’m sitting here trying to relocate my convictions i left them somewhere between my bias and influence somewhere

1:40:12

between values and addictions and those restrictions on my mind i work hard to fix them rewiring my mind and taking

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time to redefine my own heart in my own mind cause for every time my intuition

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gets dismissed i find it hand in hand with consequence i find myself up

1:40:30

against defense defenseless and senseless with all these false pretenses of the corporate governments and their

1:40:36

financial interests it’s a destructive business because media distorts it in

1:40:42

society twisted time to raise our fists up time to resist them i said hey yo

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it’s time for power to the peaceful time to fill them streets full and i said know what you do do what you know

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know what you do do do what you know know what you do do what you know listen

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to your inner voice because i’m sitting here trying to relocate my consciousness

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remember to own my own mind and its significance remember to open my eyes to the universe’s hint since trying to keep

1:41:13

lost balance is often hit or missing if we don’t take the time to listen to our heart speak we might often find

1:41:19

ourselves tongue-in-cheek cause it’s hard speaking our feelings if we don’t know what they are how do we take charge

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of a purpose or a worth and know the value of this earth take the time to know yourself it’s up to you and no one

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else know what you do do what you know listen to your inner voices

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[Music]

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and this is for the peeps who told me what i was not tried to muzzle all my thoughts tried to lock me in a box for i

1:41:56

know now they were behaving weak and sour abusing that power i like to take it back now for they all told me to shut

1:42:03

my mouth and now it’s time that they are all called out cause words are munitions for musicians are weapons so speak them up

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loud speak them but proud now die myself da da [Music]

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know what you do do what you know know what you do do what you know

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know what you do do what you know listen to your inner voice

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know what you do do what you know know what you do do do what you know

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know what you do do what you know listen to your inner voice

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listen to your inner voice everybody let the ancestors guide you

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and uh let’s all come together and uh make make some stuff happen

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around the planet so that we can uh protect the lands and waters for future generations hawa thank you my name is

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miss panic

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i just greeted you all in my chakwatmuk language i said hello everyone my name is dawn morrison and i’m here

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today with with uh the great honor of being invited to the two rivers remix winter solstice

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festival i’m going to share with you a written piece that i did for this amazing book

1:43:40

that was put together by an amazing mentor of mine and leader jeanette

1:43:47

armstrong from the seals nation a book called the river of salmon peoples that brings together five

1:43:53

authors indigenous authors um from nations along the fraser basin

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to talk about our relationship as indigenous peoples as salish and speaking peoples to the

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the salmon and the river [Music]

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our people are like the aspen quaking

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quaking in the wisdom of the northern spring winds

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roots firmly grounded grounded in the synergy

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of flowers fruits and fungus healing

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[Music] healing in the biota of white dust and cankers

1:44:48

and meditating [Music] meditating in the calm before the storm

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of political fury lynching mosquitoes

1:44:59

and swimming swimming in strong curtains of spirit

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[Music] our people are the shekwet mo

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we are the people of the land where the water flows from the highest mountain through the rivers on its way to the

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ocean our story takes us back to the time

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when old one created the rivers lakes and streams

1:45:30

and coyote led the salmon to shikha makulu

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as one of the most basic and profoundly inter intimate ways in which we interact

1:45:41

with our land we see ourselves in the reflection of

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the water as it travels through diverse landscapes watersheds and communities within our

1:45:53

territory meandering over some of the most ancient

1:45:59

bedrock in the territory the rivers lakes and streams have shaped

1:46:06

formed and laid the gravel for some of the best salmon spawning beds in the world

1:46:14

millions of salmon cycle rich nutrients through ancient inland rainforests

1:46:21

and extensive wetlands and riparian zones along the rivers where they play out

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their lives in birth and death

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the landscapes from the characteristic green belt found in the rain shadow of the eastern

1:46:40

slopes of the rocky mountains to the rattlesnake ridden

1:46:45

desert-like landscapes and grassland biomes near to kamloops

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the place where the rivers meet and bonaparte clue towels meaning

1:46:57

gravelly river chiquatmook place names tell a rich and

1:47:03

meaningful story and are symbolic of the eco-philosophy that underlies our

1:47:10

worldview for example stephenstone

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is the name of the valley that meets the eastern shore of hustalan

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it translates to a place with an abundance of food which in this case

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includes fish deer berries and root vegetables

1:47:36

the name gives rich meaning and clues to the ways in which our culture

1:47:41

has adapted to living in this area and highlights its significance in

1:47:47

relation to the land plants and animals that provide us with our food

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[Music]

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our ancestral memory is entwined with a web of thoughts dreams and intuitions

1:48:06

that guide our traditional ways of knowing and interact with the salmon and the

1:48:12

rivers lakes and streams

1:48:17

in contrast to the western scientific paradigm that sees salmon as quote unquote

1:48:25

escapement and water as a quote unquote resource

1:48:31

to be exploited to an external means we view our relationship with them in a

1:48:37

much more complex and new non-linear way

1:48:42

we worship the water for its obvious life-giving qualities

1:48:47

and the cleansing and purification it bestows upon us [Music]

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we revere the salmon for this role they play in maintaining the health and integrity

1:49:00

of our traditional land and food system [Music]

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our sense of place and identity is shaped by a relationship with the

1:49:11

land water plants and animals that provide us with this food

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this philosophy is encoded within the teachings of coyote

1:49:23

as they are contained within our striptacula in a highly dynamic interplay between

1:49:30

matter energy climate and geography coyote reminds us of our higher power

1:49:38

the old one and creative potential that flows through our collective stream of

1:49:44

consciousness through his ability to transform himself

1:49:50

into anything he wants he works with the old one to interpret his spiritual messages

1:49:58

and teach us important social cultural and ecological morals

1:50:03

often through his own foolish behavior and his humor and creativity

1:50:11

the most creative and meaningful stories are highly descriptive and will often

1:50:16

lead you to make your own connections between thoughts feelings dreams and

1:50:22

tuitions [Music] they contain metaphors that are creative

1:50:27

expressions of the ways in which we see ourselves in the reflections of the water

1:50:36

in this way stories help us know where we have come from and who we are

1:50:43

once we know ourselves we are then free to go beyond

1:50:49

what we know to be quote unquote true in the physical world

1:50:55

to explore the great mysteries imagine possibilities and create new realities

1:51:01

that offer deep meaning to all our relations

1:51:08

unity on a grand scale of space and time

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[Music] thanks for having me and thank you to

1:51:20

the the crew at two rivers remix and mika and all of our

1:51:26

our friends that are here to to do the filming and organize all this i’m really grateful to to have been here

1:51:32

cookstown [Music]

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thank you to the strong women shaman so thank you for for joining me here today on this

1:51:50

ancient village to share some songs for this winter celebration

1:51:57

thank you to all the strong women who are part of this wonderful lineup this winter

1:52:04

to honor the beautiful women that are a part of this two rivers remix winter festival i’m

1:52:09

going to share a song that i composed and it means the end

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it means the end because as an indigenous as indigenous women in this country

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uh we aren’t often treated very fair or very well but by our people we’re

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uh cm where we are the the matriarchs and and the life givers

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and the storytellers and the weavers and and all those beautiful things that we are

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uh so this song is dedicated to all the strong quelmach women

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hey [Music]

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[Music]

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hey

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[Music]

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hey [Music]

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[Music]

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hey

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[Music]

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[Music]

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my pronoun is not a she or a her my pronoun is uh slanet

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it means i am a woman in our dialect it it distinguishes exactly where i’m from the lineage in

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which i come from and the language and the dialect in which i speak so i am a slaney

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and i’m also known as a 550 as an indigenous woman in this country

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um i’m seen as a number and yeah just to give some food for thought

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about uh how i identify so i identify as a slaney and as a 550 heights app

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cogniza all right so i’m going to sing another hand drum song this is a hand drum song that i

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remixed for my daughter kamora when she was born she’s going to be 11 this month actually

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so um i’m a hip i’m a hip-hop artist an mc i do traditional storytelling and and

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hand-drum singing and uh and i’d like to rock the mic which i’ll share with you uh

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up next but here is uh she is the light

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[Music]

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[Music] she is the light

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she’s the star that shines so bright she is the light

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she’s a star that shines so bright way hey [Music]

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she owns the rights she’s the one who’ll end the fight she

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owns the right she’s the one who’ll end the fight

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[Music]

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[Music] she brought me back to my life

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she brought me back to my reality she brought me back to my life

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she brought me back to my reality way hey

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[Music]

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she is the light she’s a star that shines so bright she

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is the light she’s a star that shines so bright way

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hey

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[Music]

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hey

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she owns the rights she’s the one who’ll end

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the fight she owns the rights she’s the one who’ll end the fight

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i tap on this amnesia [Music]

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uh yeah [Music] this is a shout out to everyone

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it’s time to wake up wake up it’s time to use our voice

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ah yeah it’s time to wake up wake up wake up

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my people live the ceo it’s time to be free oh yeah

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my people are the sky yo it’s time to fly you’re my people of the mountains no more days we’re counting my people of

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the grass here the time has passed here the time has passed i am

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my people are the ceo it’s time to be free you’re my people of the sky it was time to fly my people are these

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mountains no more days we’re counting my people of the grass here the time has passed yeah the time has passed ah yeah

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oh yeah [Music] see i know who i am and i know what i

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can do i can go to any land and raise my hands ain’t gonna be like ocm yo yo i

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know that girl and i know her whole world yeah i know her legacy know her lineage and who she’s meant to be she’s

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a woman of the mask and the bull rush mask ah yeah i’m a wolf from the mountain every day i’m counting when

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it’s time to return to the land so i’ll raise my hands to each and every one of you this is the power that we pull

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through from the universe yo we’re here to break the curse i hear the power we pull from the universe yo we’re here to

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break the curse ah yeah my people are the ceo it’s time to be

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free yo my people are the sky yo it’s time to fly you’re my people of the mountains no more days we’re counting my

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people at the grass here the time has passed yet a time has passed ah yeah

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my people are the ceo it’s time to be free yo my people of the sky always time

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to fly my people of the mountains no more days we’re counting my people of the grass yo the time has passed oh yeah

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see we’re built to last woman of the grass and the bull rush mats oh yeah

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this is who i am ancient vancity this is just who i’ll be yo what here to set the

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spirits free it belongs in our dna and our geology ah yeah when you’re looking

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at me what it is that you see do you see the spirit in my eyes where the eagles

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and the raven fly oh yeah see the spirit in my eyes where the eagles and the raven

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no more black sheen no way will i see these pipelines lay

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down in my day cause i’m standing in the way saying that’s enough i gotta pass this down to my girls and

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my boy and all the rest of the world ah yeah ah yeah

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more people are the ceo it’s time to be free yeah it’s time to be free yo it’s time to be free my people are the sky yo

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it’s time to fly yes time to fly it was time to fly my people of the mountains

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no more days we’re counting more people of the grass so the time has passed my people of the mountains no more days

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we’re counting my people of the grass you’re the time has passed still the time has passed a year

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our year [Music] when the day breaks

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the good energy of the golden sun i didn’t take let it feel

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let it make me feel real let it shine upon my soul so i can control just what

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i meant to do all year the water it rushes through keeps me

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clean and focused ah yeah so i’m so thankful to the people of the mountains

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to the people of the sea to the people of the sky to the people of the river green

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heights epconocy of messiah let’s do this one

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[Music]

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oh yeah let’s shine our light shine it’s so bright

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oh yeah it’s how i rock

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oh yeah hold your head up high [Music]

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it’s how i ride in the summertime it’s how i vibe the green in the trees the hummingbirds

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and the bees come on take a breath with me yeah stepping out this reality baby

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it’s just meant to be so let it fly take it high before the moment passed by got you wondering why what if we did it

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could you really get it on a new kind of flow this is just how we go though ah

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yeah it’s how the water glistens i sit back and i listen sit back reminiscing

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sometimes i’ll be missing but i’m on a new mission oh yeah [Music]

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it’s the gleam in your eye that i just can’t get by i wanna know what takes it

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how what brings it to the sky yo how do you fly oh yeah ah yeah

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maybe i’ll see you on a rainy day maybe you feel me in the sun rays anyway imma

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be on this path yeah these are the gifts that i have cause i was built to last

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it’s how i ride it’s how i vibe with the birds in the sky this is how i

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glide oh year ah yeah [Music]

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it’s how the water glistens i sit back and i listen sit back reminiscing sometimes i be missing but i’m on a new

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mission yeah living life doing it how i lie keeping it tight doing it right ah yeah

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shine the light shines so bright oh yeah ah yeah

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yeah it’s how the water glistens [Music] yeah that’s me standing at the shore

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with my basket berries galore who you be yo fresh from the sea now we be living

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in this reality uh yeah this is just how our magic’s meant to be our year

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ah yeah yeah you read my indigo cause i let it

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flow yeah you know just how i flow yeah yeah yeah you’re in my indigo cause i

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let it go yeah now you know how we can flow all year all year

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oh yeah stats in the white stomachs in stetson i

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know i’ve been scrolling when quartz think what’s nama [Music]

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it’s how the water glistens i sit back and i listen sit back reminiscing sometimes i’ll be missing but i’m on a

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new machine yeah yeah [Music]

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living life doing it how i lie keeping the time doing it right shine the light shine so bright yeah shine your light

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shine so bright oh yeah

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it’s how the water glistens i sit back and i listen sometimes i’ll be missing but i’m on a new mission

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yeah yeah [Music]

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yeah that’s me standing at the shore with my basket babies galore who you be

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yo fresh from the sea now we be living in this reality just like how it’s meant

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to be oh [Music]

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yeah you’re my medicine yeah you’re my medicine ah yeah [Music]

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it’s how the water glistens i see it back and i listen sit back reminiscing sometimes i’ll be missing but i’m on the

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new mission

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which goes sam thank you i’m like to thank you for this

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opportunity to perform the song with the two rivers remix i think it’s so important to have an all-female cast the

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song is in order in honor of the murdered and missing indigenous woman

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um lgbtqs plus and men our people are going missing

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and they’re being murdered across this country and it’s not okay

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we do not tolerate this indigenous women are considered

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our prized possession they’re sacred they’re life givers they’re knowledge keepers they’re the

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ones who pass down our lineage without our women we have nothing so this song

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is for us women to gather our strength to our stand in our power

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we don’t need to be afraid in our own country we’re not going to tolerate violence or murder against our women

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it’s not okay for us to go missing so the song is to raise awareness and for us to feel strong about who we

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are and to be in our power wherever we are in our territories

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[Music]

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lady [Music]

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they tried to kill me but they couldn’t kill me they tried to kill me but they

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tried couldn’t kill me but they couldn’t kill me yeah they tried to kill me but they couldn’t kill

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me they tried to kill me but they couldn’t kill me they tried to kill me but they can’t get to me

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gotta [Music]

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who was taken no woman no reconciliation taking my fear now can’t put my fire out

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it killed my family there’s nothing else to figure out so now he’s down strong warrior power born you can’t kill me

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yeah that’s my wolf song

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[Music] but they couldn’t kill me they tried to

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kill me but they couldn’t kill me they tried to steal from me but they can’t get to me

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so they gotta but they couldn’t kill me they tried to

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kill me but they couldn’t kill me they tried to kill me but they couldn’t kill me

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[Music]

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they don’t want you to

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[Music]

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one step two steps they tried to kill me but they couldn’t kill me they tried to kill me but they couldn’t kill me they

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tried to steal from me but they can’t get to me still gotta leave this way they tried to

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kill me but they couldn’t kill me they tried to kill me but they couldn’t kill me they tried to kill me but they

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couldn’t kill me [Music] y’all tried to kill me but this is the

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real me remember i come from the slant it’s what heals me put my hands in the water now you can feel me thunderbeam

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shaking coliseums but you didn’t even see him cause i’m quick like the lie ancestors taught us rock in here arise

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damn right imma be at the front lot every single time yeah your head is mine but i’m taking it with my rhymes stomach

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sin is my medicine couldn’t kill the indian immediates set my spirits free

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couldn’t get to me cause we be connected naturally universally

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they tried to kill me but they couldn’t kill me they tried to kill me but they couldn’t kill me they tried to kill me

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but they couldn’t get to me don’t

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[Music]

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but they couldn’t kill me but they couldn’t kill me they tried to

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kill me but they couldn’t kill me they tried to kill me but they couldn’t kill me they tried to kill me but they

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couldn’t kill me

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[Music]

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yeah yeah [Music]

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ah yeah [Music]

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big shout out to two rivers remix thank you for celebrating winter solstice with us much love to each and every one of

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you

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hey what’s up everybody my name is miss shells and i come from

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the treaty for territory from regina saskatchewan i would love to thank the

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two rivers remix festival for bringing me out on this beautiful day

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and yeah be sure to check me out on spotify itunes

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instagram youtube all that good stuff check out native by nature clothing

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and yeah this first song i’m gonna be singing is called for my women and it’s a big shout out to

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all my beautiful beautiful women out there doing their thing for their family

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and let’s get it it’s called for my women

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rise up all my beautiful women rise up

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let’s go this one’s called for my women

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[Music]

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it’s for my women i’m going through some did this for my women you don’t deserve

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it and this from the women who just said they gonna quit don’t quit

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just from a women my brother’s a billion women been rock bottom and i’m quartz problem

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been blocked on

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so you know where i’m heading how to make a choice just to hear my voice got my heard here making noise been on

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the up but i’m up raising boys gotta do a big and some things for my boys i don’t play games i’m making names with

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my boat got my straight team got my name under the border no i ain’t florida no i just scored like an eagle there fighting

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at the store never waves up i’m reaching to the shore reaching for some more you’re gonna find me at the door

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[Music]

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resilient women [Music]

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and this is what i choose no wonder made the news seeing bar views can’t walk in my shoes then i rise from my ladies ride

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for my ladies i rise where my ladies we rise beat the patriarchy yo don’t be too surprised

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[Music] you don’t deserve it

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this from my women who say they gonna quit don’t quit just from the women but resilient women

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this is from my mothers we carry ourselves and others supernatural beings

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we are the resilient seed the indigenous women rise

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[Music]

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from the women who say they gon quit don’t quit just from the women

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[Music]

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that one’s for all my beautiful women

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all right so this next song is my first debut music video

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my first debut into the van city music scene and it was called

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get that money i dropped the music video with enter tribal entertainment back in 2016 and i’ve been going hard

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ever since but this next song is called get that money and again

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it’s for the beautiful women out there the mothers out there the the boss ladies out there who are doing

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their thing putting on for their family making sure that their families don’t go without so this one is for you

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because we all deserve a break too let’s go get that money check it out on instagram and youtube under enter

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charitable entertainment [Music]

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if you’re working hard to make that money single moms put your hands up it’s your

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weekend all day getting that money hitting those shops spinning my grapp

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feeling kinda thirsty got my girls here about to get ready

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nails all done hair did too short skirts with the knee-high boots vip we see no

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line bottles on ice like all the working all day yeah we grind for the team don’t

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take your friends and take time out for me pumping bottles until we got eyes on the street here from we don’t wait in

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line four seats holding on to five zero five zombie indigenous queens we rose

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[Music]

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girl’s hair about to get ready nails all done hair did too short skirts

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with the knee-high boots vip we see no line bottles on ice like all the time in

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the club with my divinity got my king by my side building a dynasty roast to a level where we see the finer

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things then a truffle presses customs designed to ring flush the other seats riding through the mountains skinny

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dipping in the lakes rivers and streams working for my family and this is what it means i’m living so good it’s like

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living a dream all day getting that money hitting those shops spinning my group

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feeling kind of thirsty got my girls here about to get ready

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nails all done hair did too short skirts with the knee-high boots vip we see no

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line bottles on ice like all the indigenous queens knitted by nature trying to get at me like an old school

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page

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team on the map all day getting that money hitting those shops spinning my grip

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feeling kinda thirsty got my girl’s hair about to get ready nail’s all done hair did too short

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skirts with the knee-high boots vip we see no light bottles on ice like all the

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time like all the time [Music] like all the time

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[Music]

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working all day for life [Music]

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be sure to check it out on youtube under intertribal entertainment

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so speaking of enter tribal entertainment i would love to welcome out my partner

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chief rock he is enter tribal entertainment

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yeah yeah yeah what’s up this is chief rock we’d like to give a shout out to the two rivers remix

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having us come on out this is an amazing experience love the setup the vibe the energy it’s

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all it’s all like really vibey you know so um

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we like to bring our song here indigenous sovereignty to the two rivers remix

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because we like to give a shout out to all those land defenders and all those people who are putting their bodies on the line all the front lines all the

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frontline all the frontline men and women and all our women out there that are putting a

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lot of work in there trying to defend our lands so this song is definitely dedicated to you

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to you ladies and it’s also important for us men to support our women

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in in these sort of creative aspects as i i’d like to as i like i like doing

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as a native uh indigenous man supporting my woman and putting her forward and

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putting her in the spotlight as much as i can because our women need these spotlights so we can show their creativity off in

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their beauty and in all aspects of our space and and uh you know so i just want to show that

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show some love to our women out there and show some love to our water protectors

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we have to go to them not as an indian band under the indian house not as an organization of the union of chief which

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is formed as a society under the deciding facts of british colombia we have to go to them as a nation my

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business [Music]

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no 200 no 600 years our people had to shed our tears spill our blood living in

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fear murdered indigenous women who just disappeared like a whisper in the wind young ones getting shot dead on the wind

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and shooting walks free and how the is beat cold blooded murders they threaten our sovereignty

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bringing in the military the rcmp they want to spark a war they want to keep

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passing our boundaries and keep pushing until we break until we’re left without a choice

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choice do we make won’t stand won’t fall protecting our land and our rights let’s stand bring him that fight of the lives

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and all we’ve ever wanted is for you to

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reckon as a sovereignty

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[Music]

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leaving families uprooted families disputed left secluded life-givers die

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mother earth crime fighting on these front lines as government gangs yeah that’s right these government gangs

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they’re ready to shoot down the protectors like it ain’t no thing breaking sovereignty we stand for the

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land margin in the streets united we stand arrested one by one hand in hand

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why can’t they just comprehend calling us protesters now and offenders reconciliation we

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ain’t gotta pretend prime minister ain’t never been our friend we stand for our people to the very end

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all we’ve ever won and all we’ve ever need is for you to

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recognize

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oh yeah yeah

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is [Music]

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written down [Music]

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[Music]

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two rivers remix yeah yeah yeah that’s how we do shout out to all the women out there making

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moves all the matriarchs everyone putting in work on the front lines yeah we’re like you guys recognize all

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the women coming out today to perform y’all do a good job rocking out proud yo

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yeah two rivers remix [Music]

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virtual feast an indigenous online platform spotlighting and supporting streaming of contemporary indigenous

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performance welcome welcome welcome to the virtual feast here at the stein i’m your host

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ronnie d harris aka rs12

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[Music]

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you can clap your hands to this one [Music]

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i’m out of the gate [Music]

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[Music] ah

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[Music]

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really happy to have you here we have a stellar awesome amazing lineup of indigenous artists and musicians here uh

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to nourish your needs for music here

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[Music]

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the world is waiting just for you

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[Music]

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you all for joining us here at the virtual feast so please take care of yourselves like share comment and all

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those things um hey thank you [Music]

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hello we are vin and the diesels and we’re going to play some songs for you i am hexy baxie lead singer of this stitch

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alrighty first song it smells like teen spirit [Music]

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bring your friends [Music]

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it’s a danger [Music]

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[Music]

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[Music]

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oh

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[Music]

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[Music]

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is [Music]

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[Music] it can change

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oh [Music]

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all right next song is an offspring song

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it’s a fun one it’s about a guy with a really really uh boosted ego it’s called self-esteem

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la [Music]

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that’s okay [Music]

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that’s okay

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[Music]

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we make plans to go out at [Music]

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got me so low [Music]

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[Applause] [Music] [Applause]

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[Music]

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disease

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[Music]

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little bit it happens more than i like to admit

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she comes over [Music]

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she’s ready to go [Music]

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these

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[Music]

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[Music] the more

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[Music]

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[Music] and the last song of the evening is one

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of my original songs i wrote when i was in a band called retrosphere this was

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a lifetime ago the song is called morning tide [Music]

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[Music]

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farewell sacred know it all with your knowledge did you see a ball oh blindly

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didn’t you leap forgot this with no secrets when i know you break down

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never [Music]

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can you ever be [Music]

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for the ones that died is

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[Music]

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you know [Music]

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[Applause] [Music]

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[Music]

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suffering [Music] is

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[Music]

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[Music]

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so [Music]

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so [Music]

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so [Music]

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so [Music]

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so [Music]

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thank you we are vin and the diesels

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we are groot hello my name is laszlo knight

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i’m very honored to be a part of the two rivers remix festival which is honoring the sacredness of the

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women and the water and i’m just really happy to be here

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this song is called dust it’s about water

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[Music]

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i only asked if you could swim so i could learn

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all of the scars you have you know you had to earn

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and if you [Music]

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i know it’s different when you don’t feel the same

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[Music]

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shake out your mind [Music]

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let it shine [Music]

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i know it’s hard to wear your [Music]

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your [Music]

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shake out your mind

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no dust in the water [Music]

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[Music] shake out your mind

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throw dust in the water [Music]

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don’t make this

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[Music]

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hi my name is carson gray and i’m super thankful to be a part of this amazing lineup of indigenous women

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i just wanted to say that you know with everything going on right now i feel like we’ve all been so distracted

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by our smartphones and social media and then even just navigating the

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pandemic that we’ve all just you know forgotten about what’s going on with our brothers and sisters on the front lines working

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to protect our waters so i think that is so great that we can come together as power empowered

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indigenous women and honor the spirit of water

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some places [Music]

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[Applause] [Music]

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my sister and mother

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[Music]

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oh [Music]

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[Music]

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oh [Music]

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is

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[Music]

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are a yeah in this life that we live

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[Music]

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oh

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[Music]

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all right i shot the video for this next song about a couple months ago maybe the end

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of september it’s got really powerful imagery in it showcasing my love for haida gwaii the

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waters and the land and you guys should look it up it’s a beautiful song this is each moment

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do

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i fell in love with the sky on day two

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it was made for me

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as i swim through the waters i feel so blessed

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do you catch the fight every time i sing i’ll stop my foot on

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me

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all of us [Music]

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is [Music]

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imagine a world where everyone

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is a perfect melody

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[Music]

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in my journal [Music]

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is [Music]

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is

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[Music]

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all right this next song here is called bones

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[Music]

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if i told you my darkest secret baby would you run away

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cause i got bones on my closet i’m not the woman that i used to be

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you don’t know you don’t know what i’ve been through and i don’t know anything about you to keep my name but your mouth

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would be a wise move cause i’m just me and i feel like

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i was often misguided but now i’m found i keep my feet on the ground

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[Music]

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the trees [Music]

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baby would you run away

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[Music] and i don’t know anything about you to

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keep my name but your mother cause i’m

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[Music] just for life

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[Music]

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is [Music]

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you and i don’t know anything about you to

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keep my name but your mind would be a wise move cause i’m just me and nothing like

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[Applause] [Music]

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all right this next song it’s all about falling hard for someone and allowing yourself to be vulnerable

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because you’re hopeful that they’re going to be the one that’s going to chain thing change things these times for you

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they want to you know heal the brokenness and the jadedness in your heart this is show your love

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[Music]

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baby i need you [Music] baby i need you

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i need you to show me

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[Music]

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have you ever [Music]

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it’ll leave

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[Music]

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a little [Music]

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[Music]

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have you ever [Music]

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is

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[Music]

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a little extra [Music]

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[Music]

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i’m [Music]

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[Music]

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[Music]

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until we can’t get older [Music]

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[Applause] [Music]

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[Music]

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your head [Music]

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this next song is featuring my husband joey styles it’s one of my favorites this is numbers

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[Music]

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seems like yesterday it all makes sense

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[Music]

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[Music]

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[Music] far away far away

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let’s get lost [Music]

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now you [Music]

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my

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[Applause] please come back

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[Music]

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we don’t need nobody

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[Music] now you’ve got me

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[Music]

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everybody

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[Music]

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this next song is a song i collaborated with with my dad over here mr robert gray

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it’s very special to us i think it’s written from a parent’s perspective you know just watching your

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child grow and thinking that’s just so bittersweet the time goes by so fast so

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this is little one

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little one oh so young

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your life has just begun

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don’t be afraid don’t show no fear

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for i will always

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be here

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no one said it’d be easy

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sometimes it gets

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no one told you that you could be

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[Music]

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time goes by move so fast

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you’ve got to live each day

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[Music]

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because nothing is promised tomorrow

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little one

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oh [Music]

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my little [Music]

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thanks this is shouting out

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[Music]

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i love you are you [Music]

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[Music]

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my

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[Music]

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they tell a story

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[Music]

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myself i feel i feel like it’s finally right

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you got me shouting out loud now i’m singing to the clouds now

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no i’m never going [Music]

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my is

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[Music]

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[Music]

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you only gave me strength

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[Music]

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[Music]

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[Music]

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no i’m never going [Music]

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oh [Music]

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you make me feel something i never felt before

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all right this next song here is called here with me that’s my latest single

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super excited to perform it for you tonight with my good friend lancelot knight he’s been playing bass for us now

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we’re going to get into some acoustic

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[Music]

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home that’s where i go [Music]

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if i don’t see tomorrow you keep me holding me today

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you give me all i need today the way you say the things that i need

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you to say way away from me

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[Music]

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and the love that you’ve given me

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feels like i’m home when you’re right here with me

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[Music]

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[Music] happy life happy life happy living happy

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children i’m happy to see what happened with you and me

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oh i know nothing is guaranteed but i have seen the wildest greens in the blue

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sky and i’ve seen the love in your eyes

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i love this life of ours

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[Music]

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when you’re right here with me mr landslide

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[Music] dark sean on the drums

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[Music]

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this is when i see you

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boy [Music]

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[Music] why don’t you come

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[Music] is

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[Music] yes

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[Music]

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[Music]

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[Applause] [Music] i [Music]

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don’t shower [Music]

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[Music]

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energy

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[Music]

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[Music] oh

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[Music]

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[Music] oh

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[Music] [Applause] [Music]

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[Music] is

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[Music] oh

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[Music]

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this next song is called colors like yours

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[Music]

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i’ve never had seen [Music]

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is [Music]

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always set me free [Music]

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[Music] reach new heights this is so priceless

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[Music]

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[Applause] [Music] is

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[Music]

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you’ll always be [Music]

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always set me free [Music]

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a dream come true [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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is [Music]

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the sophisticated [Music]

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always set me free

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this is no joke [Music]

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this life’s no joke we only get one chance one chest

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so i throw [Music]

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there’s a monster inside us on

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[Music]

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[Music] no clue what’s in store for you sugar

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kills victory is so sweet

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[Music]

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there’s a monster inside

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[Music] [Applause] is

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[Music]

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oh [Music]

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oh [Music]

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there’s a monster inside us all

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[Music]

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is [Music]

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i’m really excited to be performing this next song for you all i haven’t even dropped it yet this is

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heaven’s touch [Music]

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is [Music]

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[Music]

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things they changed

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[Music]

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[Music]

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[Music]

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is [Music]

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is [Music]

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is [Music]

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too many people gone away too soon

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[Music]

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times

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[Music] [Applause] [Music]

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[Applause] [Music] is

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[Music]

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is [Music]

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[Applause] [Music] [Applause]

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[Music]

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before we get into the last song of the evening i just want to thank the two rivers

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remix society for involving me in this wonderful cause this next song is all

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about giving praise to creator for the land and the water and my family and just my beautiful homeland of haida

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this is solana [Music]

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everything i am the skies

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[Music]

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without you too

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[Music]

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[Applause]

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[Music]

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[Music]

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is [Music]

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[Music]

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could be [Music]

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oh

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[Music]

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[Music]

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is

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[Music]

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is

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[Music]

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the sky is [Music]

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[Music]

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[Music]

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thank you so much

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[Applause] done

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[Applause]

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[Music]

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good hey what’s up everybody it’s dj cooper here thank you for tuning in [Music]

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happy winter

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[Music]

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so [Applause]

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[Applause]

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[Applause]

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[Applause]

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[Applause]

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[Applause]

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[Music]

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ah

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hey

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so [Music]

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listen up [Music]

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times are changing

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do you believe that you can walk on [Music]

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water you can win this fight tonight [Music]

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[Applause] [Music]

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look at

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[Music] times

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[Music]

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breaking all those [Music]

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promises do you believe

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[Music]

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i’ve been watching for some time

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[Music]

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skies [Music]

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[Music]

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i know [Music]

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we are trees standing in the water the gathering of tribes

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a destiny and a destination [Music]

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[Music] [Applause]

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[Music]

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[Applause] with 5d formless spirit ginormous like

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all growth in the forest that grow here before us the bright light inside that matches our auras flies for rest since

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array of auroras for the love we fortified so you’re all right earth and sky have a brother spinning like a 45

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this is not the end it’s the beginning make sure you’re alive let the sound shake your vow break your pound maker

3:37:06

catch your vibe that was club that’s the tribe read the west take a buck and leave the rest i’ve been away on some

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needed rest needed breath just like i needed death so i could find rebirth that’s how we keep it fresh keeping it

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warm until the drop.com i’m having some fun wait till the drums come wait till

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the dance is here wait till this saw sung we’ll feel that weight lift up all for everyone

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[Music]

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hey

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[Music]

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[Music]

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but we are the future [Music]

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freedom [Music]

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[Music]

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[Music]

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you [Music]

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yeah before i go in i got a question

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[Music]

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mama you gave me light and you gave me life you gave me dreams to get me through the

3:39:55

night you told me not to follow christ that the creator needs no sacrifice thanks for all the good advice

3:40:02

mr mean is full of life lessons if you want to live moderation is the essence and i’ve never failed hunger pains

3:40:08

you’ve always kept me fed but if it’s my last supplement i’ll take seconds i’m sorry that’s human nature man we full of

3:40:14

greed no matter if we’re full or not we look for more to eat and i’m grounded now mama but i refuse to shed my

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feathers cause that’s not the way you taught me no i know better but mama i gotta thank you for everything cause

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even though you’re sick you still provide us with the medicine you never once complained i’m forever grateful you

3:40:31

provided us a home our conduct is shameful mama we need you now more than

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ever i can’t believe the way we treated you but late than ever i’ve taken you for granted but from here on out i

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cherish you and it’s my open letter to show the pain that i share with you you’re giving us the life my brothers

3:40:46

make you hurt but all they see is dollar signs while stealing out your purse man they’re never taking the time to see for

3:40:52

what you’re really worth but the damage done is permanent it can’t be irreversible you really raise some shady people

3:40:58

you’re giving them the world but like the sun you see no evil mama who is my teacher but she’s gone now

3:41:04

i know where i belong now my mother’s keeper so mama i refuse to see you die this way i take

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your pain and feel my fame to fight the game another day it’s all mine some pipeline show me what the cancer is

3:41:14

injected in your veins i’ll tell you what the answer is

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[Music]

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[Music]

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dear mama lately i’ve been bothered i’m surrounded by this constant drama it bugs me mama

3:41:46

and it’s causing problems but i’m death before the sauna so hear me out mama i realize that beautiful smile that shines

3:41:52

so bright gives me the light and lets me know that we gonna be alright i know these tears fall down from time to time

3:41:57

but who am i to blame your mama it’s okay to cry i finally understand your history

3:42:04

exactly what’s been causing misery and no one gives sympathy i’m pissed off at who did this to your mama it’s starting

3:42:10

to get the best of me i never knew a man could leave you started ripped apart that leaves a mark right on your heart and leaves you out

3:42:16

to stranded forever damaged from those that took advantage of your mama defenseless you have the disadvantage

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especially when the whole nation sees added insult to the injury when no one does a thing so we start protecting

3:42:31

cause it’s just what we believe mama and they can never break it mama can no

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longer fake it i can’t shake it mama you keep on taking hits and i can’t take it mama the man is always hurting you and i

3:42:43

hate him and i’m sorry for this attitude but you’re the one thing in this life i

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can’t afford to lose i can never imagine being in your shoes so i’m dedicating

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this to you singing

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[Music]

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feel the spirit take control of the soul cause mama’s a warrior

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[Applause] [Music]

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reach the sky i am [Music]

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[Music]

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watch me rise reach the sky

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[Music] watch me rise

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[Music]

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high [Music]

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bye [Music]

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[Music]

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[Music]

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you [Music]

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[Applause] so i just want to shout out the water

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tonight’s theme is water so i found as many songs as i could with water

3:46:35

we’re gonna pick up the pace here

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if you’re at home sitting down it’s time to stand up

3:46:46

we’re still doing this pen dynamic pandemic style livestream

3:47:05

[Music]

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imagination overflowing with your

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[Music]

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so can you kiss me like my lips help you breathe

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is [Music]

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can you kiss me

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all these moments

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[Music]

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you know i got nothing to hide from you [Music]

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so can you kiss me [Music]

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so can you kiss me like my lips help you breathe

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[Music]

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is

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[Music] [Applause] [Music]

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me

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[Music]

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a place in my mind is you’re talking but it feels so overdone

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[Music]

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dark times [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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fill me [Music]

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come on [Music]

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i’m on is

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[Music]

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[Music]

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she is homeless as she stands there singing for money

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[Music] me

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[Music]

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it’s coming down on me

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[Music]

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[Music]

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wow [Music]

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um [Music]

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it’s coming down on me [Music]

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me

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[Music]

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on [Music]

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[Applause] [Music]

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[Applause] [Music]

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put your hands up

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[Music]

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children of the skies [Music]

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[Applause] [Music]

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everybody join together now one more [Applause]

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everybody says [Applause]

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[Music]

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[Music]

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hold on

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oh [Music]

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when i know i should be living every second

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is

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[Music]

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[Applause]

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[Music]

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[Applause] [Music]

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you won’t have time to open it before i make love to you this is

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[Music]

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away [Music]

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baby [Music]

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me [Music]

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me

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me [Music]

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me [Music]

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[Music]

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i know it’s been coming for some time

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when it’s over [Music]

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shining down like water [Music]

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coming down [Music]

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is [Music]

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forever [Music]

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it can’t stop i wonder

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[Music]

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oh [Music]

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up [Music]

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thank you

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[Music]

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all my ladies pop your back sweaty

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please snap please [Music]

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please [Music]

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[Music]

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[Music]

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[Music]

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born in africa but in africa

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[Music]

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queen of water [Music]

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uh [Music]

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[Music] pull up

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foreign [Music]

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so

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six [Music]

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uh [Music]

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uh

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[Music] wow

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[Music]

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[Music]

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say [Music]

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is [Music]

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oh [Music]

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me [Music]

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let it go

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[Music]

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me [Music]

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so [Music]

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[Music] gave me love when i was alone

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[Music]

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uh

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[Music]

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me

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[Music]

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oh [Music]

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[Music]

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[Music]

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[Applause]

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[Music]

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go [Music]

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you’ll need to try harder than that

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[Applause] [Music]

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uh

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uh

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[Music]

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[Music]

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[Music]

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you [Applause]

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god [Music]

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good [Music]

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so [Music]

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all right everybody thank you so much for jamming out with me thank you for tuning in shout out to rivers remix

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so

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two rivers remix emerged from the grassroots in 2018 a free outdoor feast

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of contemporary indigenous music on le captain territory at clemson also known

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as litton bc [Music]

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two rmx 2018 to 2019 featured live indigenous musicians new voices

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empowering and inspiring indigenous people and all nations especially our youth to tell their own stories so here

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i am yeah doing what i can do what you see it just a little bit of what i’ve been through my body my land time to ban

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the man camps time to take a stand [Music]

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in the 2020 summer of coven two rmx adapted to the adversity of the pandemic

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i want to welcome you to the virtual feast two rivers remix edition here online uh we’re really happy to have you

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here we have a stellar awesome amazing lineup of indigenous artists and musicians here uh to nourish your needs

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for music here in this uh strange summer that we’re in and so we hope to see you right back here get

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yourself a drink get yourself something to munch out on and join us here at the virtual feast two rivers remix edition

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where did she go [Music]

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focusing on supporting indigenous artists we streamed a full pre-pandemic

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schedule of artists online at our september 2020 two rmx three-day feasts

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two rmx also led a collaboration of bc indigenous arts presenters to create

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virtualfeast.ca an indigenous online platform spotlighting and supporting streaming of

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contemporary indigenous performance

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[Music]

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in 2020 two rivers remix launched decolonize 2.0 a streaming music event

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commemorating the 110th anniversary of the declaration of interior chiefs when

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the captain and seal nations unified to resist the theft of their unseated lands

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in summer 2021 two rmx will launch a virtual feast live

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stream tour visiting and showcasing artists from various bc nations

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[Music] the summer will culminate with another

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incredible lineup at our 2rmx live streaming feast september 4th to 6th

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we want you to get on up now in 2021 110 years later

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we continue to honor the lands and waters that sustain us we are still here

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the land is the same as our life [Music]

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