Ojibwa Grandmother recounts walk around the Great Lakes

[songcroft]

Clayfisher- Do you have any idea of the average age of death for a Indian women?

[starsoverthere]

This is very beautiful

[RogueLes]

I lived in Superior WI for 6 years and I would sit on the Lake and meditate and think of the indigenous people who sat on the Lake before me. The Lake was my solace, my saving grace. I miss it. A powerful, beautiful spirit resides there.

[iamearthbornami]

thank you

[lmollot]

women who live in grandmothers clan longhouses- will be free of abuse and has group power to protect her child from starvation, from men s and teachers, priests, medical abuse & government kidnapping & child-rape trafficking- hope thru action- for the children -peace

[turtle53081]

aHO!

[clayfisher]

Does the fellow who introduced this video have any concept of how young 66 years old actually is???

[cjdiver17]

we all can learn something only if we chose to listen,.

[scrappergal2847]

Very Powerful. Everyone should hear this .. maybe you should contact National Geographic perhaps.

[redhead1251]

What about lake Erie?

[chunkabud]

Miigwetch from Leech Lake!

[barbara5956]

Enjoyed your talk Grandma love ya.

[9s7aturn]

She is so cool. Maybe we should take away a few things from her. She resembles very sharply my aunt from Kentucky

[otirudam]

I am a white man from latinamerica, and i will always love the native american way of worshipping nature and its great forces. I am definately identified to the ancient american wisdom, where God or the great Spirit is inside nature. In Europe and the Christian Way they teach that God is above and that nature is a subproduct of God; that nature should not be linked with God. Those christians prefer to worship a book which they say its holy. To me, nature is the true and holy book of God.

[younwhosarmy]

These people are related to our white stone age ancestors who were here already when the Asian peoples arrived.. They shared survival strategies, and interbred. So what i'm trying to say is YOU ALREADY HAVE NATIVE ANCESTORS. You can pray to them... They also have wisdom, tenacity, and an indomitable Spirit... They arrived here somewhere around 10,000 B.C.. !! A couple thousand years before the asian strain of natives... There were still savage, and terrific beasts back then. Nature is ..

[tumyeto111]

@otirudam why cant they both be holy? Nature is holy for it is the work of God and the Bible is holy for it is the Word of God.

[otirudam]

@tumyeto111 as far as i know the Bible is a book written by men, published, edited, translated, sold and distributed by men. No problem with that, but i prefer a more direct way to be with God through nature. Besides the Bible God is more than 2000 years old, and God speaks everyday because he is a living God, not a God frozen in a time capsule like an old book. Nature is the space where the Great Universal Spirit dwells, so to limit God to a manuscript is constricting its actions.

[tumyeto111]

@otirudam but didnt God create the heavens and the earth and man? So wouldnt it be simple for him to put it in mans heart to know what to write in the Bible? I mean cmon God wouldnt let man write false things about him.

[windstorm1000]

@tumyeto111 you're a pretty naive person.

[etherealnoetic]

thank you ~ love always~

[djay4evah]

thanks you so much grandmother what you have done to help us is beautiful...many chi miigwech

[thisNewFoundLand]

...this is a great video.

thanks for posting.

[KosmicJelli]

Hi Grandma! I love You!

[Eugeneugenius]

The damage capitalistic corporations have done to our lakes (planet) is sickening! This must stop soon or we (all living creatures) will parish.

[av8tor17b]

thank you.  The water speaks

[KosmicJelli]

Boozhoo Josephine... good to see your sweet and gentle self on youtube... you are a beautiful woman! Miigwetch...

[MrSnorreke]

Is there some movie when Chippewa are actors. I never saw any movie about Chippewa,Sauk,Fox,Kickapoo etc...I do mean movie with something authentic, as Indians in canadian movie Black robe are shown. Greets from Serbia

[irunonz]

mii gwitch grandmother,for those valuble and oh so precious words of WISDOM that helps inlighting us youth,so we two one day well trancision from the learners to the teachers is we grow upon our sacred and beautiful mother earth with yet plenty generatoins to follow after we enter the spirit world....

[maahniik]

ohhh....I've been remembering the sound of the lake when it meets that specific shore for weeks now....ohhh...Noohum Josephine. Anushiik Skabewis

[BearWa11ace]

Powerful observations! thank you for sharing!!

peace loves freedom!

[ShonnaNelson]

miigwech!!! This makes me miss my rez

[Juggafreeze]

A very wise spiritual person.

[TheSarahRah]

a real blessing to listen to this pure kindness and wisdom, thank you

[Sierra081]

What a beautiful lady both inside and out,She cares for the earth for the old ways and for future generation's.She needs to be on the counsel if she is not already.God Bless her for her beautiful spirit.Thank you for posting this wonderful and informative video, I wish your grandmother well

[smetansininexo]

so proud of you grandma! :D

i love you

see you when you get home!

[Rpk219]

I'm thinking of doing this same walk/hike, does anyone know how to contact her or someone who has done it?

[cintulator]

Grandmother Josephine! Visit a doctor immediately. It looks like that you have a skintumor under your left eye.

[Chriscrunch2]

Its time for the return of respect of the grandmothers!

[shegirl1235]

It is such a joy see and listen to Josephine again! Thank you for these precious videos.