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Metatawabin, Edmund. A sustainable way of living evolved over millennia

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Date:

February 2013

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R16853-69-X-E, Volume number: 2, File number: 47

File no. (creator):

47

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Moving images, Textual material, Sound recordings

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5858759

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Metatawabin, Edmund. A sustainable way of living evolved over millennia
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Date(s):

February 2013

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

1 video file (.mov).
1 sound file (.mp3).
1 closed caption file (.vtt).
1 textual document (.pdf).
1 folder of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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File consists of an interview with Edmund Metatawabin titled "A sustainable way of living evolved over millennia Canada." The interview was conducted by Silver Donald Cameron as part of The Green Interview. File includes video of the interview, printed transcript, and closed captioning file.

From the interview: "Well, there's meaning there. The land will protect you. What I can't understand today when I look around, is the speed that we want to travel. It's the speed that we want to eat. It's the speed that we want to do things. In the speed that we want to teach and pass on information. It's always a speed, you know, we are always behind what we want to do and it's the speed. If you're going to do that, we're going to crash head on into something. There was no "speed" in the old days because we are where we are supposed to be, today, at this point in time. Tomorrow will look after itself; the next day will look after itself."

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Metatawabin, Edmund

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MSS2736

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General note:

From The Green Interview website: "Topic: Indigenous; Leading by example."

From The Green Interview website: Edmund Metatawabin, former chief of the Peetabeck First Nation on James Bay, who grew up within a sustainable lifestyle that persisted for 10,000 years, and who strives to preserve its values and knowledge.

The oldest of 11 children, Edmund Metatawabin-the last name means "Ten Sunrises"-was born and raised in the valley of the Kistachowan Sipi, re-named in English as the Fort Albany River, in northern Ontario. His family lived as the Mushkegowuk (Lowlands Cree) had lived for millennia, and for the first seven years of his life Edmund spent his winters on an inland tributary and his summers on the shore of Winipek (James Bay). At eight, he was taken from his family and placed in the St. Anne's Residential School in Peetabeck (Fort Albany).

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For audio-visual recordings of this interview, see IDCISN 609006.

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Moving images (video): electronic

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Textual records: electronic

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Electronic container [R16853] R16853-69-X

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Textual records

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Volume [R16853]

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2 File number 8

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Sound recordings : electronic

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