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Mino Pimatisiwin SEEKING MINO-PIMATISIWIN (THE GOOD LIFE): A PHOTOVOICE RESEARCH PROJECT Centre for Aboriginal and Rural Education Studies Faculty of Education Brandon University 270-18th Street Brandon, Manitoba R7A 6A9 © 2018 Brandon University ISBN 978-1-988020-10-5 First Printing Seeking Mino-Pimatisiwin (The Good Life): A Photovoice Research Project Citation: Centre for Aboriginal and Rural Education Studies. (2018). Seeking mino-pimatisiwin (the good life): A photovoice research project. Brandon, Manitoba, Canada: Author. Printed in Canada by Leech Printing Ltd. SEEKING MINO-PIMATISIWIN (THE GOOD LIFE): A PHOTOVOICE RESEARCH PROJECT Seeking Mino-Pimatisiwin (The Good Life) 1 This project is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and by Vale. Social Sciences and Humanities Conseil de recherches en Research Council of Canada sciences humaines du Canada 2 Seeking Mino-Pimatisiwin (The Good Life) TABLE OF CONTENTS Indigenous Youth Leaders ...................................4 HOLDING ONTO OUR FAMILY ..................... 27 Contributors ......................................................... 4 JESSICA MURRAY Knowledge Keeper ............................................... 4 LIVING IN THE MOMENT ..............................28 Brandon University Collaborators .................... 4 JESSICA MURRAY Preface .................................................................. 5 TRUE HAPPINESS .......................................... 29 Seeking Mino-Pimatisiwin (The Good Life) ...... 6 JULIA STONEMAN-SINCLAIR Meet The Youth Community Circle .................. 8 KEEPING TRADITIONS ALIVE .......................30 Debbie Huntinghawk, JULIA STONEMAN-SINCLAIR Indigenous Knowledge Keeper ......................... 10 MOTHER DAUGHTER BOND .........................31 The Photovoice Research Project For BRANDEE ALBERT Seeking Mino-Pimatisiwin (The Good Life)........11 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ........................ 32 Knowledge Keeper’s Message .......................... 13 BRANDEE ALBERT Mino-Bimaadiziwin (Mino-Pimatisiwn): RIVERBANK ................................................... 33 Teachings From A Knowledge Keeper ............. 14 ERIN PAUPANEKIS Understanding Mino-Pimatisiwin THE BEAUTY OF TRAVELLING ......................34 A Non-Indigenous Perspective ..........................16 ERIN PAUPANEKIS THE VALUE OF THOSE AROUND YOU .........17 STAND BY ME ................................................ 35 ADMARIE SINGH GORDON NIQUANICAPPO BEING CONNECTED TO MOTHER EARTH ...18 THE WARMTH OF THOSE WE LOVE ............36 NICOLE DUCHARME GORDON NIQUANICAPPO SELF-LOVE .....................................................20 RESTORING BALANCE AND HARMONY ..... 37 NICOLE DUCHARME JEREMY SINCLAIR STAND TALL ................................................... 22 TEACHING OUR CHILDREN .........................39 NICOLE DUCHARME JEREMY SINCLAIR TRANQUIL MOMENTS ..................................24 Stories Of Resilience ......................................... 41 ANONYMOUS Closing Statement From BRIGHTER DAYS ............................................ 26 The Youth Community Circle ........................... 42 ANONYMOUS References ..........................................................43 Seeking Mino-Pimatisiwin (The Good Life) 3 INDIGENOUS YOUTH LEADERS Brandee Albert – Norway House Cree Nation, Manitoba Jessica Murray – Norway House Cree Nation, Manitoba Erin Paupanekis – Norway House Cree Nation, Manitoba Jeremy Sinclair – Opaskwayak Cree Nation, Manitoba Julia Stoneman Sinclair – Misipawistik Cree Nation, Manitoba CONTRIBUTORS Anonymous – Opaskwayak Cree Nation, Manitoba Nicole Ducharme – Opaskwayak Cree Nation, Manitoba Gordon Niquanicappo – Opaskwayak Cree Nation, Manitoba Admarie Singh – Opaskwayak Cree Nation, Manitoba KNOWLEDGE KEEPER Debbie Huntinghawk – Norway House Cree Nation, Manitoba BRANDON UNIVERSITY COLLABORATORS Kathy Moscou – Centre for Aboriginal and Rural Education Studies Christiane Ramsey – Centre for Aboriginal and Rural Education Studies Karen Rempel – Centre for Aboriginal and Rural Education Studies 4 Seeking Mino-Pimatisiwin (The Good Life) PREFACE This booklet, Seeking Mino-Pimatisiwin (The Good Life): A Photovoice focus of this photovoice research project is the Indigenous worldview Research Project, is the second photovoice research project aimed of mino-pimatisiwin, the on-going process of seeking the good life by at celebrating Indigenous youth success in Manitoba and organized living a balanced life that comes from the interconnection of physical, by a group of Indigenous youth leaders from around Manitoba and emotional, spiritual, and mental well-being. researchers from Brandon University. The project was sponsored In this project, Indigenous youth from the community of Opaskwayak by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Cree Nation (OCN), Manitoba, and the Indigenous youth leaders use Brandon University, and Vale. photos and stories to talk about seeking mino-pimatisiwin (the good Photovoice research is a community-based participatory research life) through their eyes. process that combines photo images and personal narratives. The Seeking Mino-Pimatisiwin (The Good Life) 5 SEEKING MINO-PIMATISIWIN (THE GOOD LIFE) There are many ways of spelling and pronouncing mino-pimatisiwin We can only understand one part of the medicine wheel if we depending on the dialect. Examples include mino-pimatasiwin, understand how it is connected to all other parts. This requires balance. minobimaatisiiwin, and mino-pimatiziwin. ‘The good life’ translated into In order to achieve balance, one must not only pay attention to each Dene is honso aynai and tokatakiya wichoni washte in Dakota. part but also the connections between. A widely recognized symbol These connections between are also known as relationships in life. in Indigenous culture is the When we nurture and respect all of our relationships, including medicine wheel. The medicine Growth is a our relationships with others and ourselves, we are able to achieve wheel has been used to express harmony. Peace, respect, and sharing in our relationships allow us to many relationships that can lifelong process grow as human beings. be conveyed in four; one of these ways is the four aspects that involves Growth is a lifelong process that involves developing the body, of well-being—emotional, developing the mind, heart, and spirit. It is this movement towards the center of physical, mental, and spiritual. the medicine wheel that allows us to embrace all the concepts (e.g., There is no absolute version body, mind, wholeness, balance, relationships, and harmony) within it and to be in a place of healing. of the medicine wheel, and heart, and spirit. it is utilized and interpreted Healing is not just referring to recovering from an illness or fixing differently among Indigenous a problem; it is a journey and something we work towards every people. A universal trait of the day throughout our whole lives. As a communal culture, healing medicine wheel is that all elements are interconnected and influence for Indigenous people not only involves the individual but also the one another. The medicine wheel incorporates the interconnectedness community and family. between the four aspects of well-being and the concepts within them. When individuals are able to grow and heal through the concepts of These concepts include wholeness, balance, relationships, harmony, the medicine wheel, they are able to seek mino-pimatisiwin. Mino- growth, and healing. pimatisiwin, translated to the good life in Cree is an Indigenous concept The concept of wholeness maintains that each element of the medicine which can refer to the central goal in life which is to try to live life wheel is a part of a single whole. in balance. It is striving to positively develop oneself and live life in 6 Seeking Mino-Pimatisiwin (The Good Life) balance through the interconnection of the physical, emotional, mental is unique for each person. As you view the photos and narratives and spiritual process of striving to positively develop oneself. Just as throughout this booklet, we encourage you to keep the concepts of the one quadrant influences the next in the medicine wheel, the concepts medicine wheel in your mind and also value the photos and stories that that we live by in life to achieve mino-pimatisiwin will influence have come from the Indigenous youths’ hearts. As Indigenous people, one another. we often do not speak from our minds about research and theory, but rather we share our story from our hearts. Mino-pimatisiwin is not made up of one person, place or thing; it is a process and cycle of various aspects of your life. While everyone has a – Jessica Murray and Erin Paupanekis purpose in life and actively strives to seek mino-pimatisiwin, this journey The authors would like to acknowledge the work of Michael Hart. You can find his article under: Hart, M. (1999). Seeking Mino-pimatasiwin (the Good Life): An Aboriginal approach to social work practice. Native Social Work Journal, 2(1), 91-112. Seeking Mino-Pimatisiwin (The Good Life) 7 MEET THE YOUTH COMMUNITY CIRCLE BRANDEE JESSICA ERIN ALBERT MURRAY PAUPANEKIS Tansi, my spirit Tansi! I am originally Tansi! My name is name is Autumn from Thompson, Erin Paupanekis. Thunder Bear Manitoba, and a I am the mother Woman, and I am proud member to my beautiful from the Fish Clan. of Norway House daughter, Autumn, I was born and Cree Nation. I and a proud raised in Norway attended Brandon member of Norway House Cree Nation.
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