Ancients-Saqwejijik:Wsitqamu'k-the Earth
Kji niskam-the Great Spirit,
To L'nu'k-the People ,
Of: K'taqmuk-Newfoundland
Mi'kmaw saqiwe'k lnu'k-ancient ones
Ula wiki tiek-here where we live
Ln'u'k (The people),Mi'kmaq
Language is part of the essence of a race of a people. It is not only how the race communicates with each other, but it is the means by which a People understands and defines Mother Earth and the way of living things that teach us living , depending on the substances obtained from the earth.
It is very psychologically damaging for a People to lose their language....they lose a part of who they are. It splinters and fractures the people for many centuries and not knowing the TRUTH of how this came about and all the possible unknown lies that were hidden by Governments agencies, Churches, etc….
The Mi'kmaq People NEEDS to speak our language again, so that we can define and understand the world with our words, our tongue, not with that belonging to someone else that has no regard for a Nation that lived in harmony with the land and off the land we all share today!
By becoming fluent in our own language the People will once again become whole and become part of the cycle of truth.
Thus the Language workshop, besides being educational and interesting, provided a journey toward healing. It moved the People away from being a victim....because anyone who has had their language ripped away from them has indeed been victimized.
But by embracing the Mi'kmaq language back we are moving toward becoming a people of survivors....one that is a very distinct society.
We, as Mi'kmaq people, are humble and nomadic humans that have survived for thousands of years and have a distinct openness that can not be found or defined in any way or form in another Language.
We as a people who have to grasp the future and remain who and what and where we came from .This is so important to our core values and sustain our existence, the being one as a Nation that will come together and share our own belief system and must remain .
We hold this in trust for the next generations that follows the dignity of the First People of this land (North America) .... that was Destroyed as a people by Authority !!!!
Pikto'l Sa'ke'j Miu's
Victor James Muise Jr.4th…
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The foregoing historical, Legends, stories, poems, (material) is not to be reproduced without the express written consent of Victor James Muise JR. Of Bay St. George, NFLD.CANADA, or (including photocopying, recording , information storage and retrieval system) ,(Sa'ke'j).
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