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Beyond Being Silenced: Gyaa Isdlaa | movie | 2022 | Official Trailer
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Filmmaker Charles Wilkinson gives viewers an immersive look at that potlatch, a jubilant gathering that finds the member | dG1fcnhaWkZZNHZxZDA
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Washlets, as we call it in Haida, has been in practice long before contact, up and down
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the coast, from Alaska down to Washington, for many generations.
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It is our supreme court.
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Washlets is our word for potlatch.
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In October of 2018, we went up to Heidelberg, Alaska to participate in a potlatch or a gya'asla
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that my father was hosting up there with his wife, Terri Lynn.
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My father tells stories about, in the old times, when they traveled directly from Old
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Masset to Heidelberg, and they would take the boat, so there is a close connection between
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those two communities, geographically.
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Potlatches are a place to bring out our history.
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They bring us back to certain time periods, certain moments in our history when we acquired
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the right to wear a certain crest.
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And so potlatches are a place to bring out those privileges.
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I like to use the word privilege instead of right, because a privilege can be taken away.
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And so I personally may have a privilege to wear a certain crest, and my clan has those
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privileges.
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And I might be privileged to have responsibilities to certain areas.
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If I don't uphold those responsibilities, then I lose that privilege.
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It's very different from a right in Canadian society, where you purchase a right to own
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a certain property, and that's your property to do whatever you want with it until the
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end of time.
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But our privileges carry with them responsibilities.
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They're not outright rights, but they're a responsibility to take care of the place,
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and that's where art becomes really important, because it ties us back to the place, it ties
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us back to Haida Gwaii, and it ties us back to our responsibilities to take care of those
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islands.
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