- 7/3/2025
Police interfered with and blocked the march from proceeding to sankofa square (because it would "pass a jewish hospital"), a few were grabbed and arrested for absolutely no reason. The march did head back to queen's park north without any interference.
Other than that, fuck Bill C/5, and fuck police interference.
Music composed for the timelapsed marches is my own. I had a bit of fun with the editing of the round dances (using the original audio, only having to speed up the video clips and reverse two of them).
Other than that, fuck Bill C/5, and fuck police interference.
Music composed for the timelapsed marches is my own. I had a bit of fun with the editing of the round dances (using the original audio, only having to speed up the video clips and reverse two of them).
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00:00:00Good afternoon, thank you for coming everyone. My name is Kiana Johnston and I have my co-mce
00:00:06here today. We are organizers from I don't know more and Porcupine Warriors. Today is
00:00:13a beautiful day, what a beautiful gift, and it is so beautiful to see all the support.
00:00:18Thank you all for coming. A big thank you to the Indigenous
00:00:31Mace Arts and the youth who took the lead and the community members, allies, and
00:00:37volunteers that helped out to make this gathering possible.
00:00:42So before we start, I would like to share some housekeeping announcements. We will
00:00:52have an opening prayer. We ask that you do not take pictures during this time as it is
00:00:57disrespectful. We have volunteers that are ready to hand out water and snacks for the Indigenous
00:01:02attendees. If you would like some, please find our marshals. Throughout this gathering
00:01:07and March, Indigenous elders, dancers, drummers, youth, and community members will be at the
00:01:12Sprint. Throughout this time, we ask that you respect this. If you have just arrived and
00:01:17are an Indigenous community member, we ask that you please come to the Sprint. Finally, if
00:01:22you have an extra umbrella, please give it to one of our volunteers as we will use them
00:01:26in Canada. We go.
00:01:34All right. Okay, maybe if I could just shout out to the organizers, if they can let the marshals
00:01:41know and some of our helpers back at camp that we kind of changed the location and we're going
00:01:50to be here, can move forward and come in. So we have folks in the back that kind of can,
00:02:00um, can, um, move in a little bit more. All right. Thank you. Please, um, have Bridget Perrier.
00:02:10Miigwetch.
00:02:11Who have been the stewards of this place. In particular, we wish to acknowledge this land
00:02:19on which we gather. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Huron,
00:02:27Wendat, and the Haudenosaunee, and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nations. This land is governed
00:02:38by the, by the niche with one spoon covenant between the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and the
00:02:48Confederacy of the Ojibwe and allied nations. This covenant is an agreement to share work
00:02:55and to protect this land together in harmony. Today, this meeting place is still the home to
00:03:04many indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have this opportunity to
00:03:12thrive and live on this land. Miigwetch.
00:03:16Miigwetch.
00:03:22Okay. Thank you, Chi Chi Miigwetch. Now, um, next we would like to invite our elder,
00:03:28Jimmy Dick, uh, to, uh, give us a beautiful opening prayer.
00:03:34And again, stay hydrated. Drink your water. There's water bottles. Go in the shade if you need shade.
00:03:48Please take care of yourselves. It's a very hot day today.
00:03:51Um, at this time we ask that you do not take any pictures and videos, Miigwetch.
00:04:01Uh, thank you everybody for, um, the organizers for asking me to come over here and
00:04:07for sending me some tobacco like we do in the old ways. You know, our people were given tobacco to
00:04:13offer when we ask for something, you know, food, you know, shelter and stuff like that.
00:04:22Today, it still carries on, you know, our people and that we, uh, still hold that in high regard, you know.
00:04:32You know, and this is, uh, you know, some people might not understand why, why that is,
00:04:39but that's, that's one of the medicines, uh, we're given, you know, besides to the other sage, sweetgrass,
00:04:48tobacco, sweetgrass, sweetgrass. Anyhow, um, I'm, I'm originally from Moose Lacry, Ontario,
00:04:58from the Nishinaabe-Yaski Nation.
00:05:00We all have a good mind, you know,
00:05:31from Moose Lacry, you know.
00:05:34I just wanted to say that, you know, those people that are celebrating Canada,
00:05:38you know, they're all brainwashed, you know.
00:05:42You know, once they find out what Canada is all about, they'll be all over here too.
00:05:47God, pray for them, you know.
00:05:53They'll be over here, probably within a year, they'll say,
00:05:56what are those Indians that are around here?
00:06:00That, uh, that they, uh, fully understand, you know.
00:06:04And that we, um, are the original caretakers of this land.
00:06:09That's our responsibility, you know, for our, our, our people, our future.
00:06:17You know, that we still carry on that, that way,
00:06:21and practice our culture, you know, our traditions, our customs, everything.
00:06:26You know, and that, this bill C5 is infringing on that too.
00:06:31And that, uh, you know, that, uh, violates human rights, our human rights.
00:06:40As, uh, Canada signed, uh, the human rights protocol back in 1977 in Geneva, Switzerland.
00:06:48And you guys don't know that?
00:06:50So, they're violating our human rights, you know.
00:06:54And we can take them to, we can take them to court, you know.
00:06:58Sue their, sue their pants off at them.
00:07:01If they have a, if they're wearing any.
00:07:06We're not as stupid as we are, you know.
00:07:08They think we're not educated.
00:07:11They, but we are, uh, guinea pigs of all their legislation, you know.
00:07:20And that we all endured, enduring, and we're teaching our young people.
00:07:30You know, and all these things that, uh, we're here, you know.
00:07:36And we represent, you know, maybe 10,000 people each, you know.
00:07:39We've carried a message, you know, for our people.
00:07:45All your cousins, you know.
00:07:47We have a lot of them.
00:07:50And that we, uh, we're their voice, you know.
00:07:55We're their voice.
00:07:57And that's why we are here.
00:07:58Because it's, it's important to be here, you know.
00:08:02What's going on in the world.
00:08:06Everything's going on.
00:08:08Um, that we want to keep it, you know, within, within our mind to, for things to get better, you know.
00:08:19But first we've got to go through the, the Holocaust, you know.
00:08:23You know, that's what they're doing to us.
00:08:25And, uh, I mean, all in the, uh, the land, the environment, the animals, you know, they're all with us, you know.
00:08:41They stand for them, too.
00:08:42And these are things that, uh, we like to think about.
00:08:47And also, you know, that we, uh, work together.
00:08:55We've got to work together.
00:08:59Whatever happens to the Indians is going to happen to you, too, you know.
00:09:02I'm glad people are starting to realize that, you know.
00:09:14You know, our highlights, our supporters here.
00:09:20Waking up, you know.
00:09:21And then we do this little fact thing here, you know.
00:09:28We just try to keep that in mind, you know, like that.
00:09:31We don't want to push any other agenda here, you know.
00:09:35And, uh, the battle of everyone, you know.
00:09:40You can back the Indians first, that's good.
00:09:42And everything will be better.
00:09:50A long time ago, we were, we hardly seen any of us in town, you know.
00:09:58Let's go through the war.
00:10:01People come down here to work.
00:10:03Start a community.
00:10:06Build a community.
00:10:09That we want to.
00:10:12Enjoy.
00:10:13We want to live in peace, you know.
00:10:15That's how we remain.
00:10:20We never had the chance, you know.
00:10:22Right from the go, hit go, you know.
00:10:25Trying to survive.
00:10:28And always looking over your back.
00:10:30Make sure you're all right, you know.
00:10:35A lot of, a lot of racism happened.
00:10:37Residential schools.
00:10:42Yay!
00:10:44Yay!
00:10:44Yay!
00:10:45Yay!
00:10:45Yay!
00:10:46And also, uh, the 60s school.
00:10:49Let's go, come back.
00:10:50Yay!
00:10:50All those same girls.
00:10:54Throwing at us.
00:10:55I'm glad, I'm glad they're, you know.
00:11:01Also, the native child, too.
00:11:03Got a lot more kids in there than they did in residential schools today, you know.
00:11:09Care.
00:11:09That's not fair, you know.
00:11:14You're going to have more control with the agencies like that.
00:11:21And also, we keep praying, you know.
00:11:25Praying for our people, our way of life.
00:11:29Really, I'm really glad to see all of you here.
00:11:31You know.
00:11:33Tell your friends, you know, that are brainwashed.
00:11:36What's really going on, you know.
00:11:39Tell them the way it is, you know.
00:11:41They probably won't believe you, but,
00:11:44but, you know, at least you tried, you know.
00:11:47You tried.
00:11:49And we need to
00:11:53do that.
00:11:54Save our friends, you know.
00:11:58Yeah.
00:11:59So, I'm going to, I wanted to share that with you, you know.
00:12:05I've been at the trenches for a long time, myself, you know.
00:12:09The first thing I did when I came to Toronto, I did a rally for Leonard Valtier.
00:12:18I never thought that would happen.
00:12:19Some good miracles happen every now and then, you know.
00:12:22We don't give up, you know.
00:12:24I'm going to do the opening now.
00:12:25I'm going to sing a song.
00:12:26You know, and I'm going to say a prayer in my language.
00:12:31It is hard to think about, but we didn't have the money to hire people to hire people.
00:12:38Mine was the plan, but I won't pay it for the money.
00:12:43I didn't do a lot of money.
00:12:44I know that I didn't do anything.
00:12:46We didn't have it.
00:12:47We didn't have it.
00:12:49I have to do it.
00:12:50and I can't wait until I go to work.
00:12:55I'm not going to be able to do my job.
00:12:57I want to go to work at the same time.
00:13:02I want to go to work at the same time.
00:13:08I want to go to work at work.
00:13:12I want to go to work.
00:13:15they are good at that.
00:13:21They are good ladies and gentlemen.
00:13:25They are good.
00:13:29They are good at that.
00:13:34So he asked us that we all have, give us strength, our grandfathers, grandmothers, give us strength, have kindness with us, everything we do is ingrained in us.
00:14:04Kindness and also to have love, I say, in everything we do and also to have a witness, honesty, those are the basics of what we have here today, you know, have pity on us, you know, some of us don't have a good mind,
00:14:31but illness, those kind of sicknesses, help us, you know, help us to be good, be safe like that, we feel good.
00:14:47One of the things about our ancestors that came to this land the first time, they came here, the first ones,
00:15:02and that they thought of us when they were here, they prayed for us.
00:15:12We were the ones that carry on those prayers for our children, our grandchildren, great-grandchildren today.
00:15:19All the things we do live in Newham H52, they said,
00:15:31the seven generations ahead, you know, you know,
00:15:41You know, Bhamazawin is a good life for them too, the good Indian life we have on the map, you know, that we all wish for that, and also for all the other people, you know, that they have good things in their life too, happiness, love, work.
00:16:03We have an understanding. We have an understanding of who we are, what we are, where we're going, and the way we are.
00:16:19We have a great year where we are, and we have a great year and we have a great year and we have a great year.
00:16:35our sacred pipe
00:17:01always remember to use that
00:17:03do the ceremony, the sweat, the sweat lodge, the Sundance. Think about the Sundancers dancing at
00:17:13this time, you know, suffering no food and water, you know, keep them strong. Don't know what they're
00:17:22thought about, you know, make them feel good, dance hard. And everybody here, you know, all
00:17:34keep them safe, hydrated, feel happy. And also work together, you know, and also to have humility.
00:17:47That we humble what we're doing. And also that we don't make our culture a spectacle out of our culture
00:18:01ways and traditional ways. Again, great spirit, you know, watch over us, you know, keep everybody
00:18:15safe and help them with their needs, help those single parents, watching their children,
00:18:21the grandparents, watching their grandchildren, those ones in the hospital, help them get well,
00:18:28those ones in prison, away from home, keep them all safe, those ones that live outside,
00:18:33help them find a place to live, those ones drug addicts, alcoholics, you know, help them,
00:18:39you know, you know, get rid of the habits they have and give them good habits, good healthy habits,
00:18:46you know, and also that we love one another, our families, our children, our grandchildren,
00:18:54you know, our elders, our traditional people, our ceremonies.
00:19:00All our relations.
00:19:20Jamie Rich, Jamie Rich.
00:19:24Okay, Crystal, we are looking for Crystal. Come on. The Price is Right.
00:19:32The Price is Right.
00:19:34Is it Kill Bill Fives?
00:19:36Kill Bill Fives!
00:19:37That's the case!
00:19:39Tori Kress is going to read a statement as an organization of I Don't Know More and
00:19:53Partnering by Warriors, we took the time to put this together to get LAM back and to kill Bill 5.
00:20:00To the left we have Tori, we have Crystal, Yvonne, myself Yves, myself Kiana, and Crystal.
00:20:17Everybody, Miigwech, thank you for joining us on this hot day, the start of Indian summer today, folks!
00:20:40So we are here to deliver our statement from Indigenous environmental groups demanding a full repeal of all the 2025 federal and provincial legislation and pending legislation that infringes on Indigenous peoples' rights to self-determination.
00:20:56We, the people, the movement demands that.
00:21:03The use of the nationalist called arms, elbow up, is a Trojan horse intended to bulldoze internationally recognized Indigenous rights and streamline Canada's so-called economy in a race to build itself up as the global energy and mineral superpower.
00:21:21Our traditional territories hold 34 of the critical minerals considered essential for the global energy transition.
00:21:33These federal and provincial bills will result in an escalation and exploitation that will continue to create sacrifice zones with negative impacts on human health and once pristine biodiverse territories, all for temporary, mostly male-dominated jobs and short-term economic gains for giant corporations.
00:21:53Canada continues to lead the way in violating Indigenous rights, creating irreparable harm to our shared waterways, the land, the precarious biodiversity, and puts Indigenous bodies on the front line of destruction on our own traditional territories.
00:22:12In response to the full-scale legislative attack on the actual title, inherent, and treaty rights holders, we call on the grassroots people to push back against this monumental infringement of Indigenous environmental and labour rights that's been reframed as Canada's pushback to Trump's tariffs.
00:22:35The last time we saw legislation this damaging to Indigenous rights was in 2012, the destruction to the land, our homelands, and Indigenous bodies was Harper's Bill C-45, the Jobs and Growth Act, and Bill C-38, the Jobs, Growth, and Long-Term Prosperity Act.
00:22:59And look who's back again!
00:23:05We call on all citizens on our shared territories to actively resist the systems that continue to harm Indigenous communities, our water, our land, our future generations, and to root yourself in solidarity with Indigenous communities and nations.
00:23:20Land acknowledgements aren't enough. We're in a crucial time that requires immediate response.
00:23:26Actionable allyship, Indigenous communities and nations are still evacuated far away from their homes right now, many in different provinces from where they fled, while wildfires are raging across the country, as reported by Canada itself.
00:23:42We are up against unfettered capitalist system trying to rape the earth of every last mineral and use every last drop of clean water, leaving nothing but a polluted planet in its wake.
00:23:56With extreme weather events making headlines all year round, and as we head into another predicted to be the hottest yet, climate change caused by resource extraction and mega resource extraction is the reality that we can no longer ignore.
00:24:14Our youth are no longer asking but demanding meaningful and transformative change because it's them standing on the front line of climate change, extreme weather alerts, wildfires, evacuation displacements, all while reclaiming our languages, our cultural practices, and rebuilding our family circles.
00:24:38We contribute the least to the devastation of this planet while we're impacted the hardest and first.
00:24:48We will no longer be pushed off our traditional territories in favor of resource and mining extraction companies while we have noticed that we have been given approval from two levels of government to proceed without the free prior informed consent of the rights and title holders of this entire country.
00:25:07And to that end, we will defend ourselves.
00:25:14We will defend our land, our water, our right to exist as our ancestors had before us since time immemorial.
00:25:25We call on all indigenous grassroots matriarchs to hold healing spaces, lead water ceremonies across this land.
00:25:34We encourage all grassroots people to research, document your family lineage, your ancestral presence, the use of your family's land, and create documentation of your kinship ties to your territory.
00:25:47We encourage you to read Living Proof, the essential data collection for youth in occupation.
00:25:53Implement that in your communities. Work together. We need to work in unity. We need to build community and it starts with unity.
00:26:02And you guys are all right here, right now doing that.
00:26:09And to wrap it up, we demand full repeal of all the 2025 provincial and federal legislation passed and pending that prioritizes colonial profit while turning a blind eye to the fundamental disregard for the treaty and constitutional rights of the first peoples on this land you call home.
00:26:29Miigwech.
00:26:32So now we're gonna call on Buffalo Charging and our dancers to come and sing a song. If we could have the front back up a little bit so then the dancers have room to dance and the drummers can sing. Miigwech.
00:26:56So now I sing and sing again.
00:27:23Hey, hey, hey.
00:27:53All right, if we could, if I could call on for Ms. Watson, we got to give the, give the, they got to take down the speaker system and the stage, they got to return it, so we got to, we're going to, we're going to get ready to mobilize soon, but we're going to have one more speaker before we, before we head on.
00:28:22Let's see, I guess Ms. Watson, if not, that's okay.
00:28:27All right, so thank you all for coming.
00:28:32I just wanted to do a quick special announcement.
00:28:36My name is Eve Saint.
00:28:38I'm a Wet'suwet'en land defender.
00:28:40I'm a finance, thank you.
00:28:47Thank you so much.
00:28:49I, um, I'm also a financial divestment campaigner for Give Them Dead Checkpoint.
00:28:55Um, yes, we, um, we pressure investors to divest from the coastal gasoline pipeline, and for years, years, we have been fighting for our territories, fighting for our lands.
00:29:11So we know firsthand, when industry comes through with their projects, and their injunctions, we firsthand, I was arrested February 7th, 2020.
00:29:25They came, shame.
00:29:27We had 100 militarized RCMP come flooding on my father's territory, falling from helicopters, just for four unarmed indigenous land defenders.
00:29:44It took them a three-day militarized siege on Wet'suwet'en territories to arrest Wet'suwet'en, Wet'suwet'en matriarchs and, and allies.
00:29:59So we know firsthand, what the government is going to do, when they want to push through.
00:30:06Shame!
00:30:07Shame!
00:30:08Shame!
00:30:09Shame!
00:30:10Shame!
00:30:11And so, we're, and that's, oh, when we got arrested, everyone stirred up, because that was a time of shut down Canada!
00:30:22Woo!
00:30:23Woo!
00:30:24Woo!
00:30:25Woo!
00:30:26Woo!
00:30:27Yes, yes, and it's not just indigenous people that it's going to affect.
00:30:55It's everyone as a whole, everyone on this earth.
00:30:59It's going to accelerate climate change, climate chaos.
00:31:06We're in it.
00:31:08We're in it, and we need to act now.
00:31:11It's just disgusting on how they want to fast track all these bills, all these projects.
00:31:20It's, yeah, shame.
00:31:21And it's, they're taking the voices and the power away from the one true title holders of these lands, the indigenous people.
00:31:39So this is just the beginning.
00:31:42This is just the beginning.
00:31:44And we are all here, all of us, all the people, all the youth, all the matriarchs are calling on for spreading the awareness.
00:31:54We've got to get more numbers.
00:31:56This park should be filled with people.
00:31:59So chi miigwech, chi miigwech for being here, for coming out and standing together.
00:32:10And we will keep on, we will keep on fighting.
00:32:13We will keep on organizing.
00:32:15We will keep on doing this work.
00:32:17We're going to call out the land defenders, get ready, go home to your territories and block.
00:32:26This is serious stuff, people.
00:32:28This is the fight now.
00:32:29This is it.
00:32:30I hope you know that.
00:32:31I think we are going to, we are going to start to assemble.
00:32:44We're going to start marching now.
00:32:47Just because we want to give time for folks to take down the sound system and the stage so they can bring it back.
00:32:57But we have our own sound system.
00:33:00So don't worry, we're going to start to assemble.
00:33:02Okay?
00:33:03So just give us a few moments and we're going to start getting that set up.
00:33:10We're going to start over here.
00:33:12So just, yes, yes, if you're indigenous people, come.
00:33:17Flag carriers, banners, come over here to the front.
00:33:22We're going to start.
00:33:23We're going to start our movement, our rally, so we can give us a mandate.
00:33:29So we'll meet over there in about 10 minutes at the sacred fire.
00:33:33I just want to remind everybody to stay hydrated.
00:33:37We have extra water bottles and snacks for everyone.
00:33:41Indigenous people will be served first.
00:33:43If you would like one, please find one of our marshals.
00:33:46For the march, those carrying the banner will go first, followed by the drummers, elders, dancers, and indigenous community members.
00:33:56There will be marshals on the side for direction of the march as well.
00:34:00And can we have Isaac Murdoch at the front, please, too, along the small path, and we will go to college and university down to Young and Dundas, English.
00:34:17Jimmy, let's go back.
00:34:20Go back.
00:34:22Go back.
00:34:52Go back.
00:35:22Go back.
00:35:52Oh, my God.
00:39:24Fuck you, 52.
00:39:24We are not the savageness.
00:39:31We are not the ones that are violent.
00:39:33We are not the protesters.
00:39:34We are protectors for your next seven generations.
00:39:37We are not the ones that are the ones that are the ones that are on earthen our dead babies.
00:39:58We are the ones that are the ones that are being our sisters and our relatives up in these landfills.
00:40:03And they say that they're talking about us.
00:40:08They're talking about bulldozing the indigenous sovereign rights holders.
00:40:12We are the ones that are the ones that are the animals that are being our children.
00:40:26We want our land and our water, we want all our beautiful volunteers, all these young boys, all of our youth to be able to drink that clean water.
00:40:38I've been listening to LifeGiver and I've spoken. I've carried life, I've carried that water.
00:40:43All of our magnificent LifeGivers that are here that have carried that water, that have carried that new life.
00:40:49With resource extraction and greed and pollution, the most safest place on earth should be in our rooms and we find plastics and pollution.
00:41:01That's greed, that's savagery, that is the second nation that is coming here in resource extraction and bulldozing over our lives.
00:41:09And we say enough is enough, land bad bitches.
00:41:19The violence that's perpetuated against indigenous people when we stand for our rights.
00:41:23All of our allies and our sisters that are standing here listening to us.
00:41:27We are protectors, we are not protesting, we are protecting our way of life, our languages, our culture, our ceremonies, our drums, and our spaces for these young boys to come up behind us just as strong and resilient.
00:41:41We are still here in one of our world no matter what you do to us.
00:41:51No matter how many of our people have known, we will always be here.
00:41:55And we have seven generations coming behind us that are strong and resilient.
00:41:59the heartbeat of a letter is this drum
00:42:07each and every one of you that are standing here are feeling it
00:42:09it's not something you hear
00:42:11it's not something that you see
00:42:13you feel it in your heart
00:42:14it's the first sound each and every one of you heard
00:42:16and that's what connects us
00:42:17human nation is the two-legged
00:42:19that heartbeats for each and every one of you
00:42:21and for your next seven generations
00:42:23so we're going to take land back
00:42:25we're going to kill Bill 5
00:42:26and we're going to blockade across this country
00:42:29and we're going to shut it fucking down
00:42:30we've seen a lot of violence across our community
00:42:40to stand a block away
00:42:42that's what they're used to
00:42:43to bulldoze
00:42:44to put us in a cross
00:42:45to villainize us
00:42:46to tell you guys that we're the ones that are the troublemakers
00:42:49if you think you can't live without the water in the air
00:42:55we're not separate from our environment
00:42:59we are a part of
00:43:00and the reason why they're going after our women and children
00:43:07is because we come from the land and water
00:43:09and we are obstacles to the land and the water
00:43:11and our price of our life
00:43:13is not worth the price of the oil for the greedy ones
00:43:16you can't have greedy side treaties
00:43:18I don't know where our roads are
00:43:30one more
00:43:31one more
00:43:32I'll show your support
00:43:38from my room
00:43:39and try to
00:43:40you all live here
00:43:41let's keep the clean values around
00:43:43you all live here
00:43:45so
00:43:45family
00:43:51ت
00:43:52when
00:43:53enter
00:43:542nd
00:43:553nd
00:43:573nd
00:44:004nd
00:44:005
00:44:03Okay, guys, we're going to come back to the floor now because we're going to kick ass over there, guys.
00:44:31We're going to kick ass over there.
00:44:33We're going to have kids here.
00:44:40We're going to run.
00:44:42I am left out on the street.
00:44:48We can eat that straight.
00:45:01And then we can do some songs and just chill out.
00:45:29Can we have the banners back at the front, please, and then we'll start to march again?
00:45:44Get any volunteers to swap places with the people holding the banners now?
00:45:48They've been standing in the sun for quite a while and they do deserve a break.
00:45:52If somebody could please switch off of them, I would greatly appreciate that.
00:45:55Please and thank you.
00:45:58Can we have everybody on this side come and fill it up?
00:46:04Let's get the line back.
00:46:06Yeah.
00:46:07Yeah.
00:46:08Yeah.
00:46:34Meekwech.
00:46:35Feels like speaking a bow.
00:46:37Um, meekwech.
00:46:39about um my name is kelvin buzz no my spirit name is i come from garden river first nation
00:47:06the band of ojibways i live where the water shines georgina island i am 18 years old and i live with
00:47:13my auntie first off i just like to acknowledge um one thing that i've seen here today as a youth
00:47:24as an 18 year old i listened to my auntie speak and she says this uh very very uh powerful message
00:47:33from her ceremonial uncle and what we did today is uh when we knock on the door and they don't hear us
00:47:40we knock a little bit louder and if they don't hear us knock a little bit louder we're gonna
00:47:46slam and we're gonna kick every door down in the building so they can hear us so we can be seen
00:47:54i come from a northern reservation i grew up in a northern reservation probably about nine hours
00:48:00away from here and i grew up with my grandma my grandma bernadine ba and i watched her endure
00:48:07her life from the land she didn't have a real job she didn't have a job from the government
00:48:13she picked her sweetgrass and she made her crafts and she sold them all over turtle island she showed
00:48:20me how to plant sweetgrass she showed me how to plant sage she showed me how to harvest our medicines
00:48:26she showed me how to sing to the water she showed me how to make offerings and you know that's what
00:48:31we need as indigenous people because if we can't have that our earth is gonna die
00:48:39if we don't know our songs and we don't know our language the earth is gonna die but today i see us
00:48:46reclaiming it reclaiming those streets that are ours under the concrete that land is ours
00:48:56i personally myself go on the land to fish i go on the land to harvest medicines i go to a ceremony
00:49:05and i know each and every one of us every time throughout the year we need something from the
00:49:10land we need something to sustain us to help us live our beautiful life and if nobody is gonna stand
00:49:17up and do it then everything's gonna fall out of our hands and i look around here today and i know that
00:49:23the earth and our prophecies are coming alive because oh i see most of all of our nations here
00:49:31standing together and you know i hear my auntie talk about too one time maybe that as we uh keep
00:49:39now protecting our lands that we'll all be under the same tree one day dancing
00:49:44i see the trees um i see life in them uh my auntie is teaching me to become that to walk that good
00:50:00road and to become that sun dancer and to see our trees fall from non-native people harvesting it for
00:50:07their own for their own sake of paper and all these other nasty uh what would you call it nasty things
00:50:17that they're making out of our own trees our own plants our own medicines they're turning that into
00:50:23something for themselves that they can make money from they're using our trees to make money they're using
00:50:29our grass to make money they're using everything we have to make money for themselves if it wasn't for
00:50:36our people you wouldn't be here if it wasn't for our people you wouldn't have a shirt on your back
00:50:43if it weren't for our people you wouldn't have shoes to walk on and one thing i want to know i want to
00:50:49know and want to see is to the police and the government to walk in our moccasins to see how it feels to walk
00:50:57the red road and to see if they can last on it because the concrete road isn't my way of life
00:51:03it's their way of life i follow the red road not the black road the black road kills our people
00:51:20oh my god everyone give yourselves a round of applause
00:51:27wow wow yes oh my god for you know enduring the heat and you know the the police you know escalating
00:51:39the situation you know they didn't need to do that and so you know we got some folks there that are
00:51:47gonna make sure that uh you know our friends are you know give us updates and make sure that they're okay
00:51:54and safe so yeah um that's the uh what we're gonna you know encounter now these new bylaws it just you
00:52:05know they're it's turning into a dictatorship shame shame we're indigenous people we should be able to go
00:52:14wherever wherever we we we we want this is our land right shame
00:52:26it's a time it's a time to come together it really is all of us our allies are you know everyone who
00:52:35shares the same goal and who are also oppressed by these colonial forces we are in a time right now
00:52:44um you know there's prophecies going around you know we're the seventh generation and you know the
00:52:51next generation the eighth generation the eighth fire that's gonna rise we're gonna have we're at a
00:52:56crossroads right now and we're gonna go either down a path of destruction and white supremacy and
00:53:05wait i already talked about this didn't i did i but no it needs to be said again it needs to be said again
00:53:13when we join indigenous people and our allies together and we live in harmony and we we work
00:53:22together and we fight and there's gonna be a new way a new path so keep on coming and keep on joining
00:53:30you know these bills they did that they did that they you know especially with everything that's going
00:53:38on with palestine and now iran and congo and sudan
00:53:44our relatives down south of the so-called border they're just kidnapping off the streets ripping
00:53:55families away from each other
00:54:00they also passed a bill in alberta that um if anybody um you know is addicted they can just have um
00:54:10a um a um uh like a team a panel of people and they can just put them in um either like an institution
00:54:22so that's another form of kidnapping and keeping us oppressed that's not the way that is not the way
00:54:32so i just wanted to make a special announcement um when we found out that all these bills were happening
00:54:39i noticed that it was happening across turtle island and i reached out to uh an ally friend a comrade of
00:54:46mine and i was like hey i see this happening all across what's going on i go we need to connect with
00:54:54each other and so she they looked into it and a team and uh uh we uh resurrected and launched a website
00:55:04today it's called the eighth fire rising
00:55:11check it out it has all the information about these bills and also it's going to share the communities
00:55:19that are impacted it's almost like a one-stop shop because a lot of us indigenous people are not versed
00:55:27in their language of that law that is not our law but some of us have no choice we're gonna have to
00:55:36learn and we're gonna have to learn quick what this means and how to fight it and that's when i say we
00:55:43need everyone on board even their own government is fighting each other on it because they know they
00:55:54know that this is not good oh i i was at i organized um and then i'm a financial divestment campaigner and
00:56:03we go to the banks agm and there was one in april and uh we had an indigenous delegation uh with sueton
00:56:12gixon get now that are fighting for their lands and we went to uh uh the uh banks uh rbc agm and the bmo
00:56:22and uh we we went up there and we told them hey you you really have to change your ways come on this is
00:56:30your children's future your grandchildren's future this is not the way you have somehow you have the
00:56:39power you have our lives in your hands wake up
00:56:45and then after after i spoke and i said that there was somebody uh a banker who said
00:56:57scrap all the paris agreement scrap all the climate all the climate um justice and that's all that so
00:57:07cold science scrap it all build build build extract i was like what does that person not care about her
00:57:17children does she not care about her grandchildren that is wild that these these companies do not care
00:57:30about the future generations like i'm scared for even the next five years i'm worried and we're in it so
00:57:40we just we really got to keep on fighting check out the eighth fire website also social media handles
00:57:46instagram and facebook is up so check it out even right now pull out your phone and give those accounts
00:57:54a follow also uh the the uh encampment the youth um the uh sorry uh a kina walk a kina walk youth give
00:58:07them a follow too as well because they're doing that good work and they're also because uh some of them
00:58:13have been in those meetings right so they can they can help with their voice see we need everyone on board
00:58:21so give a follow we have a minute right now if you can get your phones out and you know just have a
00:58:27a quick one minute two minute little action what can we do next give those accounts a follow
00:58:36and also yes give you know support the support the peeps that are doing this hard work it's not easy so
00:58:44you know the youth have been the peeps have been holding it down ever since uh the bill five um it was
00:58:54me and a few other uh five four other indigenous uh quays that got together and we were like we have to
00:59:03do something and we organized a rally and we decided to stay the one night we're going to stay until they
00:59:10voted on the bill uh bill five but they had already passed they were like let's stay let's stay anyway
00:59:18and then and then we couldn't stay because i have children and you know other work that needs to be
00:59:25done but the youth stayed and the fire keepers stayed and you know like that that's represents
00:59:33like a ground zero a ground zero to all this that's going on why we're here so let's give it up
00:59:45let's give them that love and those flowers that they deserve okay um let's see is it uh what time is
00:59:54it here let's see it if there's any other five if there's any um any other organizers that would like
01:00:02to come and say a few more words before we close up it's pretty hot i know oh my god we do need a rest
01:00:18hey everybody i just want to take a minute to thank you all you guys all came out you showed
01:00:24solidarity you put the solid in solidarity today and that's exactly what we're trying to build a
01:00:30community like this where we all come together we unfortunately had to face off against police
01:00:36but it went a little better than i thought it was going to be when i saw those horses coming in so
01:00:42appreciate all of your safety appreciate everybody's hard work and we are going to continue to keep
01:00:48working this camp is going to keep going there's going to be more camps you are going to see youth
01:00:53taking back the land and uh that's where we need the support we need to keep those youths safe out on
01:01:04the land and build up around them um they're they're our future and they're they're not like i said earlier
01:01:10they stopped asking and they're telling and they're leaving and they're showing us what they want
01:01:14they want their land back and they want it now i said hello in my cree language my spirit name howling
01:01:32white wolf a name that was given to me for my community which is out in manitoba fish river cree nation
01:01:39outside of winnipeg treaty five next to treaty one i want to thank all of you for today and the bravery
01:01:48and the allyship it means so much to us here as organizers and we want to remember the people who
01:01:54were arrested today and we did have a legal defense committee that was among us that was able to go and
01:02:01and be at the jail wherever they are i understand the latest update that haven't been processed yet
01:02:08but the legal defense is with them there's three people uh waiting to be processed hopefully they
01:02:12won't uh charge them let's hope they just release them but we just never know and then we would like
01:02:19um sometimes there's a jail support where people like to go to the jail and drum but we don't have
01:02:24any updates yet but uh have a great safe afternoon does anybody need to from the organizers need to say
01:02:32anything okay well enjoy the afternoon mingle network thank you so much we had um that was above
01:02:51and beyond and definitely not needed and they even took one of our youth
01:03:01so we will be dealing with that and yeah um again big chi miigwech for coming on this hot date thank
01:03:09thank you to our marshals for doing their big one
01:03:16thank you to our organizers our drummers that has already left
01:03:22a big thank you to all of you because this is where it starts this is where land back happens
01:03:28and we're not going anywhere
01:03:34and a big chi miigwech to the lead lana goldberg for for doing their big one for these marshals and getting
01:03:41us safe to to and from for even dealing with that hiccup that we had with the police
01:03:49and we do understand that some people do like to go for court support if that is something you're
01:04:02interested in um please come and find me so i can talk to um our our um legal team
01:04:11and yeah again i think that wraps up our day if once the hand drummers come up here and come and sing a song
01:04:20yeah miigwech
01:04:30water can you raise it up in the air and um invite any drum i'm gonna invite any drummers that would
01:04:37like to come and sing for the water song this water song is needed um yeah so if you have water
01:04:46hold it up and then at the end of the song we'll be taking a big sip of our water and then we'll be
01:04:51ending off with the traveling song miigwech
01:05:01when you first were born i think water is the first thing that you witness i think
01:05:06i think so we can do um a traveling song and then um that wraps up our day um whatever traveling song
01:05:18um cool sounds good and the banners are beautiful
01:05:25and so that wraps up our day um big chi miigwech for everyone to come out on this hot day to kill bill
01:05:54five to take land back
01:06:01and i hope everybody gets home safe where can we donate
01:06:10um we don't know yet but you can follow our page um i don't know more and um send us a message over
01:06:19there and we'll go figure that out we'll figure that out i don't know more is the page facebook
01:06:27do we have instagram i think we have instagram should be on instagram too um eight fire rising
01:06:36porcupine warriors those are all those pages that um you can get more on the bill
01:06:42um you can give donations there if you decide when you get home after you drink some cold water cold
01:06:54shower whatever you do on a hot day that you do want to do court support please reach out to us our
01:07:02our people need us we winch
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