tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24986445790116803912024-03-12T16:27:29.652-07:00Water Stories on the SAMAQAN seriesThis blog accompanies the TV documentary series SAMAQAN: Water Stories. The blogger is also the principal writer for the series and has over twenty years of experience in producing as an independent aboriginal producer. www.samaqan3/caJeff R Bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00212574272701019349noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498644579011680391.post-40480000681091054282013-11-20T12:20:00.002-08:002013-11-25T13:25:12.198-08:00<div class="MsoNormal">
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Every year the salmon come back is a song composed and a
print design of my good friend, Master Haida artist Robert Davidson, Guud San
Glans and also known as Eagle of the Dawn. Each year the harvesting of salmon
is a ritual in many first nations communities across Turtle Island and Robert
has done his part to honor the food source. Human and salmon are intertwined.</div>
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In the first season of SAMAQAN we produced a story about the
Columbia River fishery and how the tribes negotiated a treaty for salmon harvesting.
The Columbia River is also used for hydro electricity and irrigation for the US
Midwest. When a dozen dams were built in the mid-late 1950’s, the harnessing of
water for energy robbed Canada of an important resource. The salmon could not
swim past the largest three dams. 1000 miles of spawning beds, all of them in
Canada, were left high and dry.</div>
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The historic fishing mecca, Celilo Falls near the Dalles
dam, was inundated in 1957. The flooding of Kettle Falls when the Grand Coulee
was built in 1940 preceded that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
directly affected the people of the Okanagan Lakes area and our friends Tracey
Kim Bonneau and her family. We spoke to Jeanette Armstrong in Penticton where
the salmon are attempting a revival of some species.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Setting the nets at the Preachers Eddy, Sherri Greene, Nez Perce</td></tr>
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Although our people harvested salmon in many ways one of the
most common modern day methods advocates the use of nets. Nets are used in a
variety of ways. In ancient times people used natural fluctuations in water
levels. Low tide weirs were common. And throughout the stretch of human
development first nations have developed right along with everyone else. Today
first nations are an integral part of commercial fishing. Special harvesting
rights are entrenched in federal laws.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>But will the salmon continue to return as they have
throughout the millennium? Will we experience shortages in our salmon stocks?
Are we guilty of over harvesting?</div>
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This week’s episode of SAMAQAN is homage to the mighty
resources of the Pacific Northwest, the Sockeye. In 2010 the famous Adams River
Sockeye run returned with higher than expected numbers. The annual run peaks
every four years and in 2014 the run is expected to equal the numbers of 2010.
SAMAQAN has been holding on to most of the footage we gathered at the 2010 run
until today. In tonight’s episode and throughout our website you will finds
signs of the salmon.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robert Davidson during filming of "Abstract Edge".<br /></td></tr>
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To the artists, the fishing professionals and to the
customary users of salmon we are very grateful for all that has been shared
with the SAMAQAN crew. Of utmost importance is the way we use salmon. We store
it in bottles, freeze filets and smoke most of our annual harvest. We try to
make sure that there is a year’s supply, but never take more than we need. The
entire crew of SAMAQAN is like this. Almost all of us were raised with salmon
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Jeff R Bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00212574272701019349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498644579011680391.post-49399886492625810402013-11-13T18:35:00.003-08:002013-11-13T18:37:24.412-08:00Guest Blog from SAMAQAN Crew.<style>
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Tribal Journeys, and the Protocol was the culmination of a long pull for the many canoe
families that traveled vast distances to reach this point (Olympia, Washington).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span>I parked
the van as the rest of the crew ran ahead to catch the action. Walking up to
the protocol tent my hart was beating in excitement to witness something I’ve
only heard about a few months before. The first thing you feel is the energy of
the protocol grounds, smiling faces, art work, great food, laughs and the
rumble of the drums reverberating from the massive protocol tent.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I entered the tent with a greeting from a
welcoming Squaxin host and my camera ready. I stepped in to the past brought to
the present by the honor, tradition, songs and dances of cultural protocol for
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span>I cannot
begin to tell of the importance of this annual event, but what I can say is
that it is one of the most amazing cultural events hosted in North America. An
event that makes sure the teachings and traditions of the many cultures along
the Pacific North West gets handed down to the next generation.
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some of the photos I took from the protocol Tent for the Paddle to Squaxin 2012.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maori Contingent</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Henare Tahuri</td></tr>
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I am from the Tahltan First Nations and grew up in the
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Every song and every dance tells a story, the sharing of
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in the protocol tent was one of the most difficult shooting situations I have
been in. Low mixed color temperature light with fast moving dancers, called for
some quick thinking and missed shots. It was an amazing experience to be
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Raised as a boats’ man in the interior of Northern British
Columbia I was surrounded by lakes and rivers; so I find the ocean to be a
little enigmatic and equally captivating. During the production of Water
Stories season 3 I was fortunate enough to be the locations audio recorder at
Squaxin 2012 during Tribal Journeys. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From up and down the West coast, Oregon, Washington, the coasts
of British Columbia and points as far as Alaska; canoe families made the voyage
to Squaxin to share and celebrate canoe culture. For me the most memorable
experience with Tribal Journey’s would have to be the formality that surrounds
the landings at the various host communities along the way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When a canoe family paddles to shore, there is a song of
greeting and a representative of that canoe will stand and make a formal
introduction to explain who they are, where they are from and politely ask
permission to come ashore to rest, eat and share in song and dance. Equally
impressive was the welcoming songs of the host nation as they greeted the
travel weary paddlers to shore to rest their bones and join in the feasting and
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The final landing at Olympia was enormous! There were so many
people. The size and scope of the Journey was much larger than I anticipated. It
was nice to see the city of Olympia participating in the event and that
everyone was welcome to join in the celebration. The spectators were abundant of
all ages and cultural backgrounds. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I believe that there were over 100 canoes at the final landing;
there was even a birch bark canoe from out East and a Maori Waka and crew from
New Zealand. Being there for Squaxin 2012 was such a special treat, hearing the
many songs of the paddlers, to witness and take part in the strong sense of
community was empowering and uplifting. Tribal Journeys is an event I highly
recommend whether spectator or participant especially if you reside on the West
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three cultures from different parts of the world were merged to form one canoe
family and I was fortunate enough that last year to witness their canoes among
88 others that landed on the shores of Squaxin Island. This was first time the Anishinaabe
people from Ontario, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and the Maori from New
Zealand participated in Tribal Journeys, and our crew was able to witness the
many stages of their adventure. </span></div>
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In 2007 an idea was built out of
a trade mission between the Maori people and the people of Skokomish to build a
replica war canoe. This idea was originally supposed to be to build a model
canoe but then the idea got bigger, 20 feet bigger to be exact. This was when
the Maori Waka (Maori Watercraft) was started and in 2012 Dr. Takirirangi Smith
and a group of Maori traveled back to Washington State to finish what they
started so that they could join the Paddle to Squaxin. Dr. Takirirangi Smith
along with Skokomish artist and carver John Smith made a plan to finish this
canoe on time for the 2012 Paddle to Squaxin and they did just that, but
better. They ended up merging the Maori Waka and the Skokomish canoe to form
one to signify their unity during this journey. </div>
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Our team was also able to catch
up with Anishinaabe Canoe Builder Wayne Valier from Lac de Flambeau to witness
the final stages of construction of the Birch Bark Canoe. We show Wayne as he
prepares the canoe for its first launch into the Ocean in Skokomish that is
celebrated from the shore. We were in for a surprise because it was our second
season Waterwalk friends, Josephine Mandamin. Tina Kukahn-Miller and Sylvia
Plain who would be part of the international canoe family.</div>
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Through this journey we saw and
traveled with many canoe families but none like the Maori Waka, the Skokomish
canoe and the Anishinaabe Birch Bark canoe that all traveled together on this epic
journey out to sea. The merging of cultures was definitely a site to see,
weather it be on the water, in the carving shed or during protocol where we got
to see some of the traditional songs and dances. This episode of Samaqan: Water
Stories is definitely a must see. You realize in that moment when you watch the
canoe’s as they paddle their way to Squaxin Island, just how similar our cultures
from different worlds are, our dances, our stories, our love for nature, our
love of the water and our love for one another. </div>
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This quote from Dr. Takirirangi
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resonated with me on a personal level. I grew up on the west coast of British
Columbia and I’m from a commercial fishing family where life is on the water
and still to this day I feel a spiritual connection to water that is hard to
explain. This is the same for many First Nations and Aboriginal cultures from
all across the globe, especially the ones that participate in Tribal Journeys. </div>
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Jeff R Bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00212574272701019349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2498644579011680391.post-17281514095126039882013-10-23T07:08:00.001-07:002013-11-06T16:37:01.202-08:00SAMAQAN episode 34 tonight<br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kwumut Lelum child and family services is an agency on Vancouver island who provide an important social service for aboriginal youth who need it. They hire Elders for counselling on cultural matters. Each year for the last 4 years the management has sent a team of paddlers to Tribal Journey. This week we feature their story.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Willie Seymour is one of the Elders who has traveled with the Kwumut Lelum Canoe family. We first met Willie at a skippers meeting held in Chemainus, April 2012, B.C. where he gave a rousing pep talk to the people in attendance."the canoe must be respected, respect the paddle. They both come from the cedar tree".</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Many of the children with the Kwumut Lelum canoe come from either broken homes or are orphaned. They have been in care and often need the kind of guidance that people like Willie can offer. To prepare for the long journey they practice paddling, learn about personal behaviours and how to work cooperatively as a team. Many life skills are attached to their journey and for some life lessons become the best part of the journey. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Each canoe family that travels on the annual paddle needs a support system. Along with the elders and the cultural factors that pertain to their involvement a support boat is hired to accompany the canoes ( this year they had two canoes). That boat belongs to Arnie Robinson, originally from Ahousat, B.C. According to Arnie, the Elder is of critical importance to the journey and that almost every canoe has their own.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Willie plays a key role, not just for the kids but for the rest of us too. Everyday he teaches us new words in the language. He will sing songs and teaches the songs to the kids and it becomes a very rewarding and enjoyable experience." A retired fisherman Arnie owns the perfect rig, a 40 foot boat formerly used for commercial fishing. "We travel with them each day and make sure they take breaks and have some element of safety. It's a gruelling journey?"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We watched the kids paddle everyday and you could see the joy in their smiles and hear the laughter in their voices. One day when the crew was aboard the support boat our director Marianne Jones decided to make their lunch. After a few hours paddling anybody would be hungry. She described the youth as really appreciative of having a change of cooks. They joked and chided one another that this is how it should always be.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Everyday for two weeks the paddlers would work for 8-10 hours with only one meal break. When they landed on traditional shorelines, almost each night, they would engage in cultural protocol. First of all it was ritual to ask permission to come ashore. After landings, then the host First Nation would have a feast after which they would share songs and dance. Sometimes they would go for hours. That was one of the things about Tribal Journey that amazed me the most. The songs.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Back in Nanaimo the kids practiced and practiced their singing and dancing. But the Maestro who taught them the songs was none other than Willie Seymour. Now you have to understand that Willie was raised in traditional matters. He was brought up as a Speaker in the Traditional feast house. There Are no microphones or loud speakers. He must bellow to be heard. During his training he would climb to high points and speak as loud as he could raising his voice each time until he could be heard echoing in the valley below. This is also how he learned to sing.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The exchange of songs and dances is very special here. For many of the participants it is the first time they have heard these songs. Yet for others they were raised with the music as an integral aspect of their lives, some songs that predate the arrival of Europeans and others composed by contemporaries. Only people familiar with west coast culture will have heard the songs. I have lived here for twenty years and I had only heard a fraction of the songs I heard duringTribal Journey. I was floored.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Everyone insisted that I had to hear the Ahousat singers. I had a preview when I heard a few in Chemainus. I had another when I heard them again during the landings at Solo Point. They lived up to their billing. But the best was yet to come. When I sat in the audience and listened to the singers of the United Cowichan Tribes, mostly from Duncan B.C. at Squaxin, I was indeed moved to tears at the depth, the majesty and the inner peace their singing created in me. I could swear I was in ancient times momentarily lifted to a sacred place. This was a truly spiritual experience for me. Nirvana.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Buts that's not all. There was not one piece of music I did not like. William Wasden was there to sing with Frank Nelson's family. I am very familiar with his singing. I have taken to calling him the Pavarotti of the west coast. And there are many others. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For anyone not familiar with Tribal Journey, put it on your bucket list. I am telling you that you will never regret it. Next year Tribal Journey is headed to Bella Bella for Qatawas 2014. Cultural protocols are scheduled from July 13-19, 2014. Be sure to make your plans early. Bella Bella is not as advisable as Olympia Wa, where the canoes landed in 2012. To get there requires booking your ferry ride on BC ferries, or flying the with Pacific Coastal, unless you have your own boat. Accommodations will surely be challenging. But our friends, NALA winds are pretty psyched to be hosting.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bella Bella is located in the pristine Great Bear coastal region. It's is one of the most beautiful locations on earth. Kwumut Lelum is going. Are you?</span></div>
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In 2014 the Heiltsuk are planning a “Big Do”. The Paddle to Bella Bella, QATUWAS 2014, is picking up speed as Frank and Kathy Brown, Walter Campbell and a host of other canoe people remain busy charting the blueprint for what will be for them 21 years of Tribal Journeying. The Qatuwas festival was hosted in Bella Bella B.C. in1993. http://fnbc.info/Qatuwas-Tribal-Journeys-Bella-Bella-2014</div>
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The community is located in what is famously known as the Inside passage, a series of deep channels that serve as a highway to ferries and fishing vessels. The paddle from Prince Rupert is 98 Nautical Miles and could take about two days, the entire paddle being in pristine coastline, dotted with rocky shores and sandy stretches of beach. But it depends on where you are coming from.</div>
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On May 19, 2013 a potlatch was held by Athalis Frank Brown and family. It was my first time in the community and the hospitality was incredible. It was a two day event and a skippers meeting was held prior to the family business. Frank performed a chiefs dance and it was a privilege to witness.</div>
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This week on the third season of SAMAQAN we feature a short glimpse at the efforts of the NALA winds Canoe family when they are in their element. During the Paddle to Squaxin Island in 2012 Frank, Kathy and the NALA Winds team opened their journey to us. Our idea for Tribal Journey was to feature various canoe families.</div>
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Our cameras would follow NALA winds periodically, as we weaved back and forth between canoe families. One day near the end of their paddle we asked the NALA family for a day to play with the camera shots. We got some great material that can be seen on the Digital component of our TV series.</div>
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My hope is that you will see how hard working they are for the sake of their cause. Frank and Kathy Brown have spent nearly their entire lives in helping to forge ties with other people who love nature, sea going societies whom are reviving the ancient highways of their ancestors. But they are wary for the health of the ocean.<br />
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It is no small irony that the paddlers of 2014 will be going close to where Oil tankers may one day dominate traffic. In Frank and Kathy’s backyard, the Spirit Bear, the white bear, lives and breathes a sheltered life. In the waters that surround Bella Bella there are Whales, Salmon, Halibut, Herring, Crab and countless cod that provide the world with fresh seafood. Oil Tanker Traffic is a major concern. If there was a Tribal Journey I would recommend people witness, it has to be<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>QATUWAS 2014. </div>
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The least talked about cultural event that I know of takes place every summer in the month of July and culminating at months end on the traditional shoreline of some First Nation on the West Coast. The event has come to be known a Tribal Journey.</div>
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I first came to the west coast because I love the ocean. That was forty years ago. I was only 17 at the time and I hitchhiked all the way from Tobique First Nations in New Brunswick. I traveled to Victoria and dipped my feet in the Pacific Ocean and came right back to Vancouver to participate in the Red Power movement.</div>
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In 1972 there was no Tribal Journey. So what is it? Why is it important to me?</div>
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Those who know about the journey are laughing at me right now. Well, each summer the west coast First Nations participate in a canoe festival of sorts. Dugout carved canoes made of huge cedar logs have a long history here. The ocean going canoe is a vessel for food gathering and was sometimes used for war. They were also the only means of traveling from one part of the coast to the other.</div>
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Most canoes are carved from a giant tree. Others are made from cedar slats. This is because there are fewer large enough trees to carve a canoe. The practice also suffered a setback when the First Nations were forbidden to make ceremonial art. A water sport company known as Clipper Canoes recently made a mold and they are now constructing these vessels from fiberglass and Kevlar. This has helped those nations that have neither the access to tree’s and canoe builders.</div>
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Back in the day these canoes were mostly used as the vessel of the sea. They were practical and essential tools of survival. Today they are mostly symbolic.</div>
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The annual summer journey started rather modestly in 1986 when a young Heiltsuk man and his wife decided that as a project they would have a canoe carved and paddle to EXPO 86 held in Vancouver BC. Frank Brown (Bella Bella BC) and Kathy Brown (Ahousat) became enthralled at the experience of being on the ocean with an ancient vessel. They decided then that hosting a canoe journey would be an amazing experience. At about the same time another person in the state of Washington was brewing something up.</div>
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In 1989 Seattle had their EXPO and a gentleman from Quinault Nation, Emmett Oliver, organized the Paddle to Seattle. Frank and Kathy seized the moment and approached Mr. Oliver to paddle to Bella Bella for what was to become Qatuwas, a festival that was the seed that led to what is today the largest gathering of its kind in the world.</div>
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The story of Tribal journey is one I have always wanted to capture for Canadian television audiences. Tonight and for the next six weeks I am happy to bring you the result of what our team has put together, the story of the Canadian and international canoe families who hold sacred, their connections to water in this remarkable story of renaissance and cultural renewal.<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal">Running all this week on SAMAQAN is the story of Kitigan Zibi and how they are now managing their water treatment and distribution. This was the follow up to our stories about how some communities do not yet have running water. Is it any easier for those communities that acquired running water than those without? </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">For those of you who do not know, Kitigan Zibi is also known as River Dessert band and until 1994 it was also known as Maniwaki. Under the leadership of Jean Guy Whiteduck the name was changed back to Kitigan Zibi, which means Garden River in the Algonquin language. The Maliseet language has a similar word for river, “Zib”.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Back in 2008 Gilbert Whiteduck was elected chief. Gilbert grew up in the region and although he endured racism and cat-calling going to school in the local area, he reached beyond the tightrope of colonial attitudes. He remembers being told by teachers in high school that he would not amount to much: “I had told myself well we’ll see about that so we had to be very stubborn, very persistent in order to go on in to university and do things that government and other people said we couldn’t do.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">When it comes to a water system, Gilbert like most band members had a well. They drank from a hole in the ground. “That’s the way we lived we didn’t have any indoor plumbing and that was the deal there was no big thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though the local town had the municipal system we didn’t.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">In early 2000 Uranium was detected in the water supply. The water was in such poor condition that the dogs and cats had to stop drinking the water. People stopped taking showers and bottled water became a commodity no one could afford forcing the band to subsidize the costs at $170,000.00 per year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And according to some community member’s bottled water is here to stay.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Celine Brazeau tests water for sampling and analysis for the Ktigan Zibi community and she grew up in Kitigan Zibi. While growing up she had no idea that there could be anything wrong with the water. “We only found out like in the early nineties, so by then I was already married. It wasn’t something that we had to think about or worry, you just went to your tap and drank the water and it was never an issue.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Marcel Brascoupe is the Manager of the Water filtration plant in Kitigan Zibi.” Now as of 2010 and 2011 we were able to obtain funding from Indian affairs to build an aqueduct and system through part of the community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we actually have presently in the community, probably about 100 close to 200 homes that are now supplied with aqueduct system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were actually able to find 2 wells in the community, those wells sites we will be visiting or have visited and those actual sites those wells are high quality water with hardly any, no uranium at all or radium in the water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we’re actually using those new wells now to supply all the community.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">But now many people have become accustomed to the bottled water and fear that a water filtration system may never reach them. Celine Brazeau remains pessimistic. “I don’t know if they’ll ever see the water system coming to their place so bottled water I think is here for the rest of our lives, most likely.“</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The community works hard to this day to make improvements despite having endured water consumption bans in the past. Now through a combination of community lead initiatives the Anishinabeg of Kitigan Zibi are showing their resilience in Episode 29 of Samaqan Water Stories. Chief Gilbert Whiteduck knows, however, that the work starts at home and must be managed at home.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">“Now as of last year in 2010 and 2011 we were able to obtain funding from Indian affairs to build an aqueduct and system through part of the community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we actually have presently in the community, probably about 100 close to 200 homes that are now supplied with aqueduct system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were actually able to find 2 wells in the community, those wells sites we will be visiting or have visited and those actual sites those wells are high quality water with hardly any, no uranium at all or radium in the water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we’re actually using those new wells now to supply all the community.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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Last week SAMAQAN presented the first part of our story concerning the isolated region in northern Manitoba called Island Lake. Many people were touched by Victor Harpers resilience and Nora Whiteway’s quiet disposition over the lack of running water. Meanwhile the rest of us are blissfully unaware.</div>
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As the earth warms the Glaciers in Antarctica and in
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devastating effects on earth and on coastal cities. During last October’s
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Today an all new SAMAQAN Water stories launches its third season.
When we began production in 2009 people were talking about water as if we were just
discovering its value. Our goal was to honor our connections to water and to
bring about an appreciation for the things we take for granted. Like the questions that Josephine Mandamin asked during her Water Journey: What are you doing for water? Some answers are right in
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Firs Nations face big challenges to provide clean drinking
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In recent years we have seen a decline in the return of
salmon stocks on the west coast and peoples concerns know no boundaries.</div>
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EP39:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">WATER FROM MY MOTHERS WELL</b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
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This is a personal essay about how to maintain our physical
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>SEASON THREE OF SAMAQAN BEGINS</b></span></div>
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Its 2013 and there are communities without running water.
That is the first program in our third season of SAMAQAN: Water Stories.<br />
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When I heard about this story I went after it. The Winnipeg
Free Press (WFP) developed the series and I have a friend, Alexandra Paul, who
is a writer there. That is a great place to start I thought and with one email
our team got connected to the key individuals who broke the story a few years
ago.</div>
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The situation in northern Manitoba is considered to be not
unlike conditions in so-called developing countries. So we traveled to the
Island Lake region in northern Manitoba to gather our evidence of how the
people cope with this reality.</div>
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Many reasons are cited for the lack of running water, not
the least among them a bureaucratic nightmare on how to access enough public
funding to fix the situation. And although people in Island Lake seem happy,
saying they would not like to live anywhere else, the situation is difficult
and challenging. If the children develop disease and there is an outbreak of
some kind, the hazards are heavy with no water to wash your hands. A small
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It is particularly challenging for people with disabilities.
One such man is Victor Harper. His condition causes him to go to the outhouse
frequently. In the winter he has a slosh bucket, a pail he must empty nearly
after each use. He, in his fifties, lives with his mother because his house
burnt to the ground. There was no water to put out the house fire.<br />
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Not far away, Nora Whiteway heats up all the water she uses
to clean up. They deliver water to a holding tank, a large plastic barrel where
she gathers up pails full of water that she will use to wash her house and her
children. She fills up a plastic tote, the kind we use to store things in, and
she washes her two-year old son in it. The scene is a poignant one and the
irony is not lost on the viewer who see’s a happy family washing and cleaning
loved ones. <br />
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Joe Byrksa, WFP staff photographer, saw all of this on a photographic
mission to the area. He couldn’t believe it and the image burned a lasting
impression on him. He approached the editorial board of the WFP and soon a team
was assigned to the story. “Can you imagine”, Joe exclaimed in disbelief, if
someone in southern Manitoba woke up and the taps ran dry. What would happen?”<br />
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Indeed, what would happen if we could not enjoy water the
way do, day after day, in a world that is almost all covered by the liquid
gold? Watch our episodes beginning on September 4, 2013.<br />
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Go see what the WFP did in their coverage of this story. <a href="http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/no-running-water/">http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/no-running-water/</a><br />
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