Chile Students in Kamloops Canada

Sadly there is a lot of pollution in this town.
http://www.kamloopsbullshit.com/#
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxGZAhj2sNM


http://intercontinentalcry.org/continued-aggression-leads-to-mapuche-declarat...
A video I made in honor of our Mapuche friends from Chile visiting Canada. During their stay they were billeted with different families in town and on the Kamloops Indian Band with different families.

They went to different cultural activities like traditional sweat lodges, Kamloopa Pow Wow,Hat Creek Ranch, train robbery trip, and even Merritt Mtn Music Festival. The video shows Shuswap & Mapuche Tribes in celebration of their cultures.

Some fotos in Riverside Park, and Kamloopa Pow Wow in the Pow wow arbor where the dances are performed. Some pictures from the Grand Entry with Canadian,American,Chilean flags. Dances include:jingle dress dancers,traditional regalia,fancy shawl dancers. Pictures of one of the Mapuche traditional dances which they performed.Their music was with flutes and whistles while Shuswap Nations' music is with drums and singing.

The Chilean students attended the Thompson Rivers University in a cultural exchange program. The last half has a north american drum group called Wild Spirit from Alberta 2:50 is where it starts. I included a spanish song with spanish lyrics and spanish opening, closing credits so that they will be able to understand- especially since i made it for them.

Picture 1 is Elsa Maripan,Fred Seymour, Hector Marin Manquecoy. Elsa M is Mapuche from Temuco, Chile, she is wearing the Mapuche silver necklace.These necklaces are only worn by certain women, called Machi's-in their culture only women can be healers/spiritual leaders. (women are considered spiritually superior) She is also shown teaching us one of her recipes over at Brenda's house on KIB then we are sitting down to eat. Her husband worked with CONADI in Chile, Fred S.is one of KIB Councillors,

Hector is a Mapuche leader from Villaricca where he manages a tourist site in Villaricca Chile, he teaches Mapuche ways and culture. He is involved in many diff things. He's also pictured on an E-Card promoting his culture in Chile.
http://ecards.terramadre2006.org/pages/eng/terra_madre_ecard.lasso?e=TM2_1214

After he left Canada he emailed me from Italy where he was meeting the Italian president along with 150 other indigenous leaders from all over the world.

Lorena Yere who is at the dinner table in the video-on the left works at a tourist site in Chile called the Tatio Geysers. (these geysers are at risk now because of CANADIAN INTERESTS going in and attempting to destroy them.

They were all wonderful people, and impressive in all the work they did to build a positive environment for all people and the environment. Ariel (his english really improved -full of energy and a beautiful smile), Rafael (a wonderful sense of humor,he's sitting on the grass in front of the mural at Riverside Park), Fresia (a young sweet girl,Brenda became her "MUM"), Manuel(when he spoke in public he spoke from the heart), Francisco (just bawling out loud at the graduation ceremony at Sk'lep School) every one of them, Maritsa, Patricio, and all of them, they each had a special story. And i learned so much from them during their brief stay in Canada.

I still keep in touch with them and my spirit stays with them in Chile. They all touched our lives and will always stay close to our hearts, indigenous tribes from North, Central and South America are one family in my mind.

Thank you for coming to Canada. Muchisimas Gracias por vienen a Canada. Todos mis relaciones, con respeto, colleen.Saludos. All my relations, with respect, colleen.

Kamloopa Pow wow is on the first weekend in August every year.

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• American
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• Celebration
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• Mapuche
• Chile
• singing
• beadwork
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• Canada
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[Gotalighter]

I should've went to see my people and the mapuche native people from the opposite hemisphere visit our land at that time. Me7 we7tchen te Cellmucw (see you again one day my bothers and sisters)

[jamaicasky]

@Gotalighter  - sorry you werent able to see them. they are such nice people,

[jessymode]

are these people shuswap natives

[jamaicasky]

yes, some are shuswap natives. the mapuche came to visit them from chile on a cultural exchange.

[jamaicasky]

and i know i made several spelling mistakes on this one!!

[jbaravel]

Chaltumay (gracias or thanks) from Chile

[jamaicasky]

you are very welcome!

[marimanque]

Oh really what part of the territory are you from? Cheu atueimi langnen?

[monkeysee1972]

I am a mapuche, and I live in B.C...I did not know that some of my people had visited.

it be nice to make contact for their next visit

[bluemode001]

NIce video.. Love the idea of Chilean people involved in this wonderfull world.

[Uiriati]

You should have put a Native song,

I like it though.