This content is a poignant dialogue between a grandchild and their grandmother, exploring the tension between traditional Indigenous ways of life and the pressures of assimilation into the dominant Western culture, particularly through education. The grandchild grapples with confusion, seeking guidance on identity, belonging, and the value of different forms of knowledge.
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will you walk with me grandmother will
you talk with me a while I'm finding
life confusing and I'm looking for some
answers to questions all around me at
that school and on the street you've
always been here for me will you help me
learn to see aren't there others boy
around you who know a little more than
you others older but not
wiser who have yet to
understand would you answer something
simple help me see just what they want I
can't help but think and wonder there is
so much to be learned I can't help but
look and wonder I get lost at every turn
are the answers in the oak tree or the
wispy tender Birch do you know what I am
asking will you please answer this first
should the answer to some questions not
be sought within your heart just one
thing then my Noom just a simple answer
please do you think the white world's
meant for me you know how hard that life
can be and do they even know or care
that we are here that we were there do
you think they care at all about our
ways about our culture have you yet to
find another
heart answer this then please
grandmother why must I go to their
school I'm told to sit and listen I'm
supposed to somehow care about their
towns and their big cities their fast
cars and pretty things if they ever stop
to ask me I'd prefer to drum and
sing can the reason they don't
understand not somehow lie in your small
hands the teacher at that school today
said reading would help set me free she
told me that her books were key to
understanding nature yet she's never
walked a snowy path in darkness on a
Starlet night she's never met a Hungry
Wolf alone with not a soul in sight had
you my child not learned to read how
would you see the broken read that tells
of rabbit Fox or dear or that Lone Wolf
you've seen so
near that's not the kind of reading that
we do inside that school the books they
have are of their world they don't play
by our people's rules and is it not the
Maker's way to have the Strong Survive
please tell me true my no spare nothing
don't no Li do we want our children's
stories to remember us this way as
people just too proud to learn from
things that change at every
turn I love the way you teach me through
stories and through songs Through
drumming through singing we've learned
this way so long I love the way you
teach me through your stories and your
songs I don't need books to learn do I
please tell me am I wrong do you know
how I would feel today if I could share
my love this way my heart and soul I'd
write for you
too if these things are important why
did you not learn to read the Muslim or
my uncles they must not have seen a need
we've lived out here for years this way
without the things they say we need if
these things are important why did you
not learn to
read would you ask all these questions
had I learned to read when I was young
do you think you'd be so troubled had
your Noom read when she was
young I'd never blame you Grandma you're
everything I want to be I'd never blame
you Noom you know how much you mean to
me you told me that all things must
change that no no one is exempt please
tell me as my teacher is this not just
what you meant it might be time for you
to answer me a simple thing is truth not
what you seek today by hearing what I
have to say you've taught me everything
I know to walk and talk to sing and drum
to know the tree deserves respect to
feel to care to love and yet you know my
heart grandmother as you know the TR
trck of deer but why must we fit in
their world our lives are fine out
here are we not all the children of the
one great manato should we not share our
learnings is this not what he would
do I know you're right and I will read I
now have come to see a need I'll use it
as we use our songs and hope it serves
us just as long I think I found the
answer in will Little Help from you you
haven't answered anything you made me
answer everything I'm waiting child to
lend a hand when I know that you need me
for now your Noom is content to watch
you learn to see take a look one moreti
moreti
smileful eyes that's a red skin
girl she's so pretty she's so fine red
skin girl I love you all the time
time [Music]
just one more beautiful smile beautiful
eyes that's a red skin
girl she's so pretty she's so F red skin
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