Name: TEDx】TEDxTC - Winona LaDuke - 先祖代々の種、命の種 (【TEDx】TEDxTC - Winona LaDuke - Seeds of Our Ancestors, Seeds of Life)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T04:59:45.000Z
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様態の副詞

Greeting you in Ojibwe,  as you probably gathered.

And I am thanking you very much for the honor of being here.

I'm telling you I'm from White Earth, up north, from my reservation,

I thought about what I'm going to talk  to you about tonight which is

that food for us  comes from our relatives.

Whether they have wings,  or fins or roots

It has stories, it has relationships,  that tie us to our food.

Food is more than something you just buy at the store.

Something that just doesn't have a stamp on it.

In our community, we are told long time ago by our prophets,

our Anishinabe people lived  on the eastern seaboard.

And we're related to those people out there,  the Wampanoags and others.

that we should follow a shell which appeared in the sky.

And in following that shell,  we would arrive at the place

And that food that grows upon the water is minoman, or wild rice.

So we were instructed by the creator to move here,

And our wild rice, our minoman, is our most sacred food.

It is food that is first food given to a child when they can eat solid

and it is last food before  you pass in to the spirit world.

[Unclear] a lot of our feasts, and a lot of ceremonies

And as you know, we've fought hard and long to keep our rice and to keep it good.

This is a picture of Nokomis  and Nanaboozhoo.

That's our spirit beings from who we descend making wild rice.

Do pretty much the same thing as we did for a thousand years.

We got an aluminum canoe now instead of a birch bark.

Hard to get trees that size these days, but we still rice.

And then the month that is called Manoominike Giizis,

wild rice-making moon, August into September,

you'll see our people go out  on the lakes.

We feel a great joy when we go out there with our two sticks and a canoe.

Sometimes it's tall or short  or fat or skinny or,

looks like a bottle brush or looks all punked out.

It's diverse. And that's how we can keep it.

Because when a wind comes through it blows off some of the rice.

We still parch it the same way over a fire.

You can dance on your rice in your new moccasins,

we do pretty much the same thing for all these years

and that defines us as Anishinabe people.

Our story of our relationship to food  is similar to the relationship

This is Jerry Kononue  on the big island of Hawaii.

There's about 80 varieties of taro that exist in Hawaii.

And they refer to it as part  of their cosmogeneology.

I never heard that word til I was over there.

And what they said is that in their regional stories

and their original beings, the sky and the stars had a child

and the first child born  was a son named Callow.

And he was born stillborn and they buried that child.

And then the mother cried, and when she cried,

from that child and from the ground  emerged callow or taro.

As the elder stillborn, the younger child that was born was Kane, or the Hawaiian.

And so they consider that the taro is their elder brother.

And so it is not surprising that they, like the Ojibwe people, as you may know,

we fought the genetic engineering of our wild rice,

It will not surprise you that the native Hawaiians also fought against

the genetic engineering  of their cosmogenealogy.

Of their older relative. And fought the patenting.

I like to call this picture, white men can't dance.

And it has to do -- these people are doing -- it's like a haka.

They're summoning their ancestors in their dance to come forward.

And to help them to face off  with the enemy.

In this case, genetic engineering. In the University of Hawaii.

And they're facing a bunch of white guys in suits  at the University of Hawaii.

Probably a little concerned with  the arrival of the Hawaiians here.

And in this case,  the Hawaiians defeated them,

both on the patenting issue, the patents were torn-up at this meeting.

On the food itself. And they also, in Hawaii,

they have a ban on the genetic engineering of taro.

One of the first and only places in the country that such a ban has been maintained.

But our peoples are very concerned about our relatives

There's a similar story that is told with the Maori people of Aotearoa

I'm not sure what was new about it, but anyway.

So they have this potatoe there called peru peru

which has the highest level of Andean genetics of any potato in the Pacific.

Andean meaning that is from South America.

And thousands of years ago sea-faring Maoris went to South America

before any petroleum  or Captain Cook or anybody.

And they had this potato. And they grow this potato.

And so as you can imagine when the universities in New Zealand

wanted to genetically engineer these potatoes

they again were faced  with the Maoris who said,