 My name is Rose Michael. I live in Indian Brook First Nation. Well I do a lot of beadwork and I just recently started teaching in, well I've got Newfoundland in March. So I go, some of them are older people that want to learn and youth. I've worked with youth in teaching them how to bead and then combine classes. So I teach beading basically. Adult women think one man attended one of my classes. I like working with the youth because it's better when they're younger, much easier but, and I've got another group that are a mixture of adults and young children. Now I don't know the age group when I go there. I said it didn't matter what age group they were. So you know when you do your first class you think oh my god is this going to work? Are they going to be able to do it? Because I can do something in 20 minutes that's going to take them the full two and a half hours and they usually accomplish whatever I'm teaching which is a good feeling. Yeah they're proud of themselves when they learn that big time. You know they can't believe because they look at it when you start they go oh I'm not going to be able to do that and then when they actually complete it's like wow I made that. So they're really proud of themselves which is good. They need to feel good about it and I'm not going to be doing it forever and the more I teach the better it is because it doesn't stay with everybody. Not everybody sticks with it. They try it but you get the ones that will like it and carry on with it and we need to carry it on because the type of beadwork I do is not out there a lot and when I go to markets and things to sell that's the first thing they say to me is we don't see this anymore and a lot of them do the traditional on fabric and mine is none of it's on fabric. So they need to learn that that's part of our culture. It doesn't matter if they're in a circle I prefer them all at one table because it's much easier to be sitting there to explain. When I teach any type of beadwork I use huge beads because they're using teeny tiny ones that way they can see exactly what I'm doing my beads that I use are like what you see kids make bracelets out of when I'm teaching and ribbon through a big needle and they could just follow and I find they learn really well like that because when you're working with teeny tiny beads and even if you're YouTube tubing it's very hard to see them and you'll find a lot of YouTubers are now starting to use the bigger beads to explain what they're doing so I prefer the big beads when I teach because normally the classes are about two and a half hours and in order to be able to help an individual if they need it I need to have the least amount of people and I usually don't have anybody with me it's just myself teaching and going around and helping with whatever they need. I've done a lot of different crafts all my life and for the first time beading just lets me express myself and you find something you like and then you just run with it. I've done Eagle Feathers that originally went to 31 First Nation Detachments for the RCMP then from there it went to right across Nova Scotia and from there it was the Justice Department which I have more coming in for that to do more feathers which went right across Nova Scotia and now it's happening and Newfoundland they just did one of the ladies did them for their detachments so I find everything I've done it's grown and I've been doing this for almost five years it hasn't been long but I see a big change in what I'm doing the demand is there because I'm starting other ones also for different organizations. You want to learn as much as you can I don't necessarily find everything from First Nations people because what I'm doing a lot of them don't do and I love YouTubeing to look for my own education I do a lot of that if I want to learn something new I have to go out there because we don't have many women that teach it and I like I said I do a lot on YouTube when I want to learn something new and work out the kink so that I can do it easily and explain it in a classroom setting so they just don't hold enough classroom settings so you can't when you take one stitch there's so much for them to learn but they're not learning it they're just kind of getting that first step and then they're it's gone and that's that's a sad part needs to be continuous. I think our language is extremely important all our different cultures the basket making the rabbit sneering the hunting techniques I mean we have them in our school so we're lucky but there's not enough of that for our children because I mean as simple as what is a CD player or a cassette player they have no idea well look it's the same thing in our our culture we as children if they're not learning that they don't know it and it goes it's gone so if you if it's more in school systems people that are our basket makers that are teaching the way we did it from breaking up the ash and the wood shavings for the flowers all that stuff is not there anymore they come in and everything's pretty much prepared so when I teach I let them know everywhere you can possibly get supplies and here it's very limited so I think our culture is extremely important and we really need to have more teachings in it there's not enough we didn't get it as kids we made tissue flowers which wasn't wooden flowers but I had an elder tell me that if you can make a tissue flower you can make a wooden flower and I was like really so you know what I mean we don't have enough of that today we're getting it in our school but off reserves they don't get it they might get it once a month if they're lucky somebody coming in so I think it's really important I wish there were more programs out there like I mean with Kurt he's lucky we've got the language in there but we're not getting the crafters out there the way we should and I mean this is the first one I teach for a group I don't know what you would call it an organization getting together which I'm excited about and I think we need more of that I mean they always bring in basket makers flower makers but they forget about the beaters and they're just as important because when I started you get those little bit of insecurities you nitpick everything that you do and then now I look at my work and go wow that's beautiful I did that and then it goes from wow and it's it's selling to other people and then you see them wearing what you've created and it's it's a good feeling in here and I could say to myself I did that that's awesome and some people will say you shouldn't teach but you know what we need to that's the problem we need to teach need to give our secrets and whatever we do so that it's carried on and I think that's really important