Yuwipi in my opinion as it pertains to pretending to know Culture

Time heals all things people say or its just human nature & so it that i begin this blog post. its been a month since leaving Las Vegas. keeping in mind i rarely ever travelled in years since being my late moms peimary caregiver. its not only having looked after her its also learning about my culture too. she was a dakota woman who grow grew up in an indian residential school. she was a very open about her famiky's life. Im forever grateful for these way of thinling. its lead me into my beliefs about how unique my culture & my bloodline of the seven council fires of the Sioux. when Nathan Chasing Horse came into my community i never ever attended these ceremonies outside of Sundance ceremonis. i grew up hearing about the Yuwipi Ceremonies. Mostly about non-Oyate people or non-Sioux pra ticing this rityal. i never understood why i felt indifferent until i attended Nathan's Yuwipi & it wasnt about what was coedienced i these darken ceremonies, cause the stories were similar to what i had heard. i blieve it was the way i was birn & taused with the Oyate cukture tgat felt so famikar & nothing more ir lrss. Marina Crane (00:01.272) good morning. Marina Crane here from Tsuutina. it's Friday, the nineteenth of June, and that's only a few weeks until the Calgary Stampede. I've been away for a couple of weeks, fulfilling some agreements that I needed to get fulfilled. It's like you make a pledge to do something and then you have to follow it through and then end it and then that's starting start another project or start a new life or whatever. But throughout my life I've well, I think everybody has difficulty with boundaries. like just like we have difficulties with addictions. Again too addictions, everyone has them. Either you overwork or something or overeat or some there is addiction. Gambling, drugs, you you name it, s pornography. We you know, we're an audience out there with all these human traits. And I had a meeting yesterday with a very professional artist. And I'm an artist. I you know, I I don't produce a lot of work, but I do believe that what I do with my podcast is a artistic piece of work as well. And I've had a lot of time to reflect and talk to many people about things culturally are very sensitive and that a lot of people sort of are ignorant about it. And I'm I'm not just talking about non indigenous people, I'm talking about my own people, not just my community. And and again too there's a subtle difference You know, I I have friends who are status card holders but have never lived in First Nations Inuit or Metis communities. And they do advocacy. but they don't ever claim to represent the tribe that you know that they hold a status card to, because they ha they don't have any lived experience living in the community. Like, you know, it's one thing to go and, you know, have a holiday and spend a week or two with your relatives. Marina Crane (02:15.426) you know, in a indigenous community. But it's another thing to be there twenty four seven day weeks, months, years. Total total difference. And and also the history the history and I use my platform and my own experience to explain my life and the various stories that people have come to interview me. Again because there are so many pretendians out there. I'm I'm not just talking about non-Indigenous people like Buffy St. Marie or or or talking about people who claim to be allies or cohorts just to manipulate and and get publicity or some attachment to the wider the wider non indigenous population to say, I'm indigenous friendly, I'm a cohort and then to just sort of spit us out on the side. I I've grown up with all that and I know a lot of indigenous people who actually do the work, the advocacy, have been tricked by a lot of people who pretend to be allies and cohorts. I mean, it's just part of living. I mean, you come into my community and you'll be treated the same way too. it's it's either or I mean we're just all human. But the reality of it is when you're trying to find truth and reconciliation, it has to start within our indigenous communities. And the artist I spoke with yesterday, we had similar experiences in a different way. I'm heterosexual and he's homosexual. And again, too, our our lives are so similar. I chose not to be involved in relationships, yet the repercussions of my being an indigenous woman in the lateral violence and misogyny, I've always been placed in a we'll say a round square in a in a in a a round cube in a square or a round you know what I'm trying to say a sphere in a square. Okay. Marina Crane (04:22.848) Because they wanna put me someplace. I'm either gay, asexual, something's the matter with me 'cause I don't ha I'm not in a relationship. All these equations and things and facts to figure out about Marina Crane. But it's the same thing with every human being. And and I find it so with people who choose to use pronouns like they and them. And for me, in the past couple of years, being more open with the artist community and meeting beautiful human beings who are so talented and so gifted and so rebellious in the sense that they're have courage to s to call themselves and to narrate their story and to gather together you know a bunch of cohorts and allies with from different tribes. So I always talk about the renaissance of young people and like what a hundred years will look like when people reflect back on this time. We're going through a hell of a lot of changes, especially with in Alberta when we have this premier, Danielle Smith, really manipulating and trying to figure out where she lives, who she is. This is a woman with a very complex identity issue, in my opinion. I mean, she befriended investigative journalist pretending to is a cohort and a ally and the journalist wrote her speeches and la di da, you know, betrayal. I've had that my whole life. I've grown up in the city amongst non-indigenous people. I've also challenged, I've had friends who I knew since elementary school, and later on in my life realized like they weren't the friends that or the cohorts that I thought they were. Marina Crane (06:18.222) and again too, you know, self reflection and also looking at yourself and thinking, Am I holding space for this person from another culture? And the capacity or the un the unwillingness to do so. Because that unwillingness to do so for me like I'm seventy four. I tell people I haven't been sexually active in forty nine years. my journey in in healthy human sexuality, especially when I'm in an environment where there's misogyny. in other words, they're there the conditions of indigenous woman and the pressures of everyday life of how I'm supposed to perform or how I'm supposed to behave. like this controlling colonial way of thinking. And and that's why for me doing my podcast and deconstructing for people my age, as well as in their fifties or forties, and who've never left their communities, have never worked off of their communities. communities and who have just decided I'm gonna stay here for the rest of my life from the time they're born until the time they are six feet underground. And who who's who's to judge and say you shouldn't live like that? But society in general is in denial. They're in denial and they, you know, just think that they ha that they're they're they're mistreated like like like I said, Danielle Smith's cohorts and allies. They just feel somehow that they're ha the Marina Crane (07:51.597) Like they're so bad that they want to separate from Alberta and Canada or I don't know. You know, it it puzzles me the way non-Indigenous people think. There's always this money sign over their heads and opportunities because again, you know, you gotta pay rent, insurance, feed your family, you know, just thrive and get by, but at the expense of who? most of my podcast I try to talk about what it means to be indigenous. even the whole concept of of housing and living and all those ways of thinking. I I don't live like that. I've I lived quite a quarter of my life away from my community. So I do understand like life insurance, mortgages, rent, all that taxes. I you know, I I took part in that. But I chose to come home and retire here and embrace who I am. a lot of times people have a really a low opinion of who I am and and that's okay. I'm not I'm not trying to convert anybody or control anyone. It's totally up to you if you listen to my podcast. And a lot of times it's very triggering. It's it's a very triggering podcast, especially when I talk about human trafficking. And a and a lot of times people don't understand it. Like I I didn't understand it. I I understood misogyny. I understood you know how men in positions of power manipulate young women to have sex with them. Either you know, because it's in their job, you know, like they're working and if they don't put out they lose their job. Or or in other times too, if Marina Crane (09:48.833) if there's case of of sexual violence they use that their position to silence the the person who's working so that if they speak up they'll lose their jobs. Now, this is really difficult for people to comprehend because you hac actually have to have lived it. So for me when I say when I was in my early twenties, like twenty-one, I established I volunteered. All of this stuff I talk about is volunteer. I never got paid. E even in Christmas concerts when I would do all this volunteer work, putting up decorations and everything, n I didn't get paid. I just did it to as a service to my community. And but yet there were people who just had to put lateral violence saying that I was paid. It's it's been that way my entire life. You know, my pip my my parents traveled around the world when I was eight and ten and so I've lived this life where people just thought that I had this money coming up the yin yang. And again, b it doesn't help that I speak English or that I don't have an accent and that I'm educated because I have this allure or this aura around me that I have this magic wand stuck up my you know where and all I have to do is blink and I get what I want, which is a totally total fallacy. I struggle. I'm I've been poor my whole life. I live comfortably. And yet at the same time too I've had to put some boundaries down, even at my age as an elder. A lot of times I jokingly say I do these podcasts because somewhere down the line, maybe the next ten years I'll develop and maybe right now today I've got dementia or Alzheimer's don't know. But I'm documenting things and I'm talking to people, young people Marina Crane (11:38.165) In their 40s, 30s, 20s, 50s, 60s. Most of my acquaintances are in their 60s. I have a few people that are in their 70s and I had a dear dear friends that were in their 80s. So I've had a whole spectrum of relationships throughout my life. Mostly about the podcast too. I I talk about the struggles as as an Indigenous woman navigating through all the trauma. and the experiences of my friends and relatives and and the grieving process of it and the ongoing battle fatigue of just trying to live day to day in an environment that is poor. Now in my podcast, especially when I'm talking about privilege, you know, I sovereignty and things that we have lived through. Like just recently they signed a bill in Manitoba. You know, they like all of a sudden like, my goodness, our children have been falling through the cracks. You know, we've been saying this for decades and just the legislation or the amount of people that it's taken. Like just imagine, okay, I'm I'm just talking about child and family and sovereignty. I'm not talking about Indian residential school. You gotta understand the timeline here. My grandmother went to Indian residential school and so did both of my parents. They're both dis all of them are deceased now. I went to a residence. I didn't go to residential school, I went to residence, which was a a little more sophisticated than a residential school because we stayed there and we were monitored. most I'll say like we'll say institutionalized. We were bused into a little town and went to school every day and we could go in to the little town on the weekends. Marina Crane (13:36.463) it we were still under the control of the administrator and the staff there, so it it's interesting like the grooming process that took place, as well as the expectations of what they wanted from us, thinking that we were never gonna amount to anything and that they had to have they had to hire indigenous people as the role models and say, Look at Lou, you can become this person. And and you know it ca the legacy carried on even to Buppy's St. Marie, I even saying her name I feel like throwing up because that makes people wonder like why the hell did the majority of the people think she was indigenous? Now I'm going back to Indian Residential School and all this fabrication, how many generations, like I said, my parents and my grandparents, generations of generations of indigenous people talking about this, advocating for the Canadian society. To wake up and realize what was happening, even as children. Like I'm talking about my podcast, when I talk about my life, I'm using it as an example that there were my parents and my grandparents who didn't have the capacity to talk about these things in the same way that I do. Now, when I say capacity, I mean that I have an audience who's listening. I have an audience who knows that I'm telling the truth. I have an audience who, you know, will will hold space for me and support me and even come and join and bear witness. And and this is the whole case about living in indigenous communities. And I'm saying First Nations, Inuit, and Metis communities. Living in our communities is bearing witness to the injustice that's happening every day. It isn't something where, I think I'll go and witness indigenous injustice for the wit for the summer. yeah, I'm you know, do a damn podcast or get on TikTok and say, yeah, you know, I'm an advocate, yeah, I know the injustice. No, you you don't because you're not living it every day. You're not bearing witness to it every day. And and when you do and you and you're talking to other people who are living in these communities and just being supportive of one another, y you you you can't fabricate that. Marina Crane (16:00.461) That's why I'm so staunched in in talking about pretendianism. And and I said again, I'm not just talking about non-Indigenous people like Buffy St. Marie. I'm talking about indigenous people who who like because of the Indian Act and Bill Sear 31, so many people lost their identity. All my parents, my grandparents, all those indigenous children who went to interresidential school. Imagine, like I said, the decades it took for them to tell their stories. About the horrors of what they experienced in those places. I think it came out what? I geez, maybe 20 years ago we got compensation. And I think next year they're gonna delete all those stories of all those survivors. They're gonna delete them in in the federal government because they don't have a place to store it. Now, as indigenous people were fighting for those records to be kept. But imma that's why I'm saying imagine the scope of it, the years and the decades of indigenous people, like my parents and my grandparents, trying to get people to listen and realize there was genocide happening. Now my guest yesterday we were talking about just the reality of of Like it not only that, I'm I mean not only my guests, but there are so many non indigenous people who who basically try to clarify to their own people about genocide. about whether or not we're actively caring. Like it's one thing to say, look, they bombed all these children on the other side of the world. But the reality of it is like do we really give a damn? That's why I'm saying with my podcast When you're actually living in a community and you're bearing witness every day, doesn't that say you give a damn? But at the same time too it also desensitizes you. If you're not taking care of your mental health, you get desensitized and you get apathetic. Marina Crane (18:06.72) Now, I'm not saying like my podcast is to stop and help people understand what it is to be desensitized. No, my my podcast is to bear witness to the fact that there are so many people shifting identities out there. Like you have indigenous people have a status card who've never lived in indigenous Metis like I said, First Nations Metis or Inuit communities. And some of them, like in the United States, because They don't have the Indian Act. You know, you you have very rich Native Americans in the United States who have status cards. And and this is my definition of pride. When you're a millionaire and you're Native American and you hold your card and you say, I do not access ban funds. I do not go to my poor reservation and drain the kitty. of their band funds. I just ha I'm grateful that I have my status card, that I'm a Native American, that I can show that I belong to a tribe or or a tribe identifies me as being indigenous. They have enough pride to say that they do not have the ability to say they represent their tribe because they've never lived in those communities. Now in Canada it's different. And for whatever reason I know Native Americans have always criticized us, and rightfully so, but they don't understand the Indian Act. And and this Indian Act, you know, separated a lot of indigenous women and their children. So we have a lot of these pretendian descendants who are saying, I have a status card. but yet they cannot say that they're they bear witness by living in the community. And and that's where the challenge is. You know, when you're a corporation or you're some sort of social media or you're investigating some story, do your research. Be a good investigative reporter. Find out if this individual has actually lived in an indigenous community. Marina Crane (20:16.364) Because if they haven't lived in an indigenous community and they are trying to have their voice and say, This is who I am No, don't attach it to First Nations Inuit Metis communities. Don't. You're you're just ren one of the general population that has been caught up in a cult. A lot of people, non-indigenous people all over the world from the beginning of time, have belonged to cults. And this ritual abuse that happens within our human society, a lot of people shut down. I was talking with the city police and and I had an acquaintance who did training with with city police talking about ritual abuse. And some of our police you know, what do you call captains or leaders, management, upper management refuse to indoctrinate or educate or train on the job about ritual abuse to their staff. Now when I lived in Utah and studied gender psychology, I did attend a ritual abuse conference. And this was a couple of decades ago, maybe ther over thirty years ago. So I'm hoping like the evolution of talking about cults and ritual abuse is is not as triggering as it was thirty years ago. But this being said, there's so many people trying to suppress it and and not talk about it. And and so my podcast and what I talk about when it comes to Nathan Chasing Horse, my whole context was to say no, don't identify us as as it being indigenous. the the ritual abuse has happened from the beginning of time in every religion. And don't try and just focus too because for me, a lot of this learning of ritual abuse came from the Mormon church. Self reflecting, analyzing their own values and beliefs and realizing that, you know, they're not perfect. Marina Crane (22:20.162) But not not every religion is perfect either. Catholicism, Anglicans, Protestant, Methodists, Seventh-day Adventists, Baptists, you name it. You know, every culture in the world. You hear about it and you peop you hear people criticizing people's cultures in the world. Well, that's just a byproduct of the surface tension of ritual abuse. Now, the reality of it is like, well, as a human being, how do we how do we process this? How do we understand what what all this is to protect our children? So the problem is that I think non-Indigenous people who are actually, you know, really concerned and want to be you know, real cohorts and allies, they you need to really step back and and listen. Now an example would be look at Danielle Smith, Premier of Alberta, cohort ally, manipulated an investigative journalist to write her speeches. The this premier kissed the the the the bottoms of our chiefs in Alberta trying to get away, especially our former chief here. All these manipulations of government money, whining and dining the chiefs and then they're and then they you know, they love this glory, this attachment to fame and look at what I'm doing for my community. At the meantime here's Danielle Smith, you know, going, we need to separate 'cause we're so poor. You know, we're a rich reserve, but we you know, we're rich nut reserve, but A rich province. Look at what Trump is doing, paid millions of dollars to do campaigns for Alberta to separate. That's treason treasonous. Okay. Hey, we have the proof and the pudding. Now, if non-Indigenous people can't understand the manipulation of this woman who pretended to be a cohort and ally, what do you think she's doing to you as a non-indigenous person? Marina Crane (24:23.254) If she's done this to another human being, she is capable of doing so many other things, all under the guise of like being a friend in a cohort. That's who you voted in. That's who you elected. That's who you're all these people, you know, thinking, well it's so unjust. Let's let's leave Canada. You know, y that y because you don't see your privilege. A lot of the things as indigenous people we don't have those rights that you've had and exercised. And and and and for us we live in it. We bear witness to the injustice every day. And you might look and say, Well what injustice? Well y you can say that because you you don't have the guts or the challenge or the courage to actually investigate. So and I I'm not just saying this to non Indigenous people, I'm also dop saying this to Indigenous people who have their status card, who, you know, have never lived in their communities, who only see the surface and only want to take advantage of the opportunities that are available now because it's the trendy thing to be indigenous. It's like the flavor of the month. Like tell me about it. My whole life I've been the flavor of the month. Why? 'Cause my parents traveled like to South American India when I was eight and ten. All this cult activity of, you know, using and abusing indigenous populations to present the propaganda, either to get into a third world country or for some government like again, non indigenous people in position of power to manipulate and tell create a narrative. They create the narrative for the indigenous population. And the indigenous population, because of poverty, have joined. Marina Crane (26:18.604) That being said, that's part of my whole reasoning for talking about cults. Because when you step back and you decolonize yourself, when you de you know take away take away all that absurdity, those illusions or delusions, and you wonder how did I create that illusion or delusion? Because it starts right from your identity, and if you as a child have had these problems. as you're functioning and moving manipu maneuvering your way through life, a lot of times it's very confusing. Now this young man I spoke with yesterday, what a relief. You know, as an elder when I talk to young indigenous people and and I'm and I'm talking to him and I'm saying, No, I on my podcast, I find it really difficult. Like I don't have people emailing me, just like when I did my blog on Nathan Chasing horse, for twenty years. I didn't realize people were listening or reading my blog. No, I'm talking to this young man and we're talking about Uwe Pi ceremony. Nathan Chasinghorse used that, manipulated, bastardized the whole ceremony. So we were talking and I said and we both agreed. I said, yes, the like for twenty, thirty, forty thousand years, all the the ar archaeology, all the DNA, everything that white society or I will say French, Spanish, English, Portuguese. Portuguese, Dutch, you know, all the five conquering races suppressed and erased. And and all the like the poo poo, like the denial of how as human beings we're savages. We're not civilized. As human beings today, even though we have technology. Like I'm not saying I'm not, I'm I'm saying I'm part of this. Because understand this. Marina Crane (28:17.164) And this is the discussion and the fallacy that was created. Imagine, like, okay, twenty, ten thousand, how many years like say for the co the the Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota, the Oshati Shakoi, the seven council fires of the great Sioux nation. The rituals of the Yeweepi then the Sundance and all those seven ceremonies that were given and passed down by white buffalo cafemen, get this. Get this for all you who are pretending That you have some sort of spiritual connection. I want you to get this. You know, get your head out of the sand and realize we've been colonized for the past 500 years. That's just a that's not even a drop in the bucket. W humanity has been around for so long. People are trying to guess and estimate how just how long our gene pool is. Now, this woman. This this being came down in a cloud, had transf had transformed first in an image of a buffalo. As the buffalo approached these two men, she changed from a calf to an older to an older cow. Then she transformed into this beautiful woman. The two men were standing there, one with lust. We'll say like Nathan Chase Morris. And the other, like this young man that I spoke to yesterday. Now when they b when the cloud enveloped them and and the cloud disappeared, the bones of the man who was in lust was left, but the man who had integrity and compassion and I knew who he was, respected this living being, his life was spared. Now, I want you to you know press your memory and sort of just like be creative. Marina Crane (30:20.096) Imagine this there's no hell, there's no heaven, there's no God, there's no devil, there's no Jesus Christ. Understand this. Get your head around this. Imagine human beings thinking that we are related to everything. The rock, the sky, the birds, the bees, the dogs, the cats, everything has a spirit. So in in the translation of White Buffalo Calfwoman, The story is she was a white buffalo. You can you understand this? Not saying that our people were having sex with a buffalo. No. Ten thousand years of the ceremonies that were given through this prophecy, that there was gonna be a time and they said a white buffalo is gonna appear. When this white buffalo appears, it's gonna be a critical time. A critical time. You could you could you you could be wiped off the face of the earth. A lot of people because they were so pitiful in our identity, we're so pitiful in the loss and trying to grasp out of this bucket, this barrel of water, we're drowning, we're grasping at anything to say that we're proud to be indigenous. You know we have non individuous people creating these narratives for us. And yet this young man I spoke with and all these other young people that I've talked to, I s I've said to them, Imagine just imagine. Marina Crane (32:04.984) They're talking about relationships with all living things. All living things do not believe in a devil or an angel or like heaven and hell. Does your dog? Does your cat? Does your bird? Does the cow or the horse? And yet we all have energy. So what I'm trying to say is that the prophecy of this white animal coming to signal the Dakota people that that there was going to be a crisis happening and that we could be wiped off the face of the earth and that we need to practice these rituals and ceremonies like the Yewipe. I'll explain the weepy in a in a in a in a psychological sense so you can can get and grasp it. Understand this. When the s these conquering races came five hundred years ago, they wiped out five generations of indigenous children for the first one hundred years. Grasp that. The illusion and delusion or the oppression of society wanting to hide this fact. Do you think Creator and the grandfathers and grandmothers have the audacity to also suppress this truth? Marina Crane (33:32.44) All this we have no say over. Whoever has been watching us, Creator and the grandfathers and grandmothers for thousands of years, have tried to be in preparing us. Yes, I'm a fragment of of the remnants of that of that. I'm I'm a but yet I'm I'm alive. Why? Because my ancestors the the Shakut Osate Shakoli understand that the prayers the genocide my ancestors went through just so that I could talk to you today. Five five generations of children and yet today in Manitoba they're just signing a paper so that we can have sovereignty. We can make sure our children aren't put in foster homes with non indigenous people. That's what I'm talking about sovereignty. Five hundred years. People weren't listening. Even our own people, you know, turn look the other way, and they'd sooner work for the province under child and family and follow their policies than understand our inherent rights to be sovereign, to make sure our children are protected. That's why I'm saying the generations of my parents and my grandparents trying to tell people about the horrors of Indian residential school. And then after the Indian residential school, I'm an elder now. Marina Crane (35:06.978) But imagine all the parents who chose to have children and who went through all this knowing that their children were falling through a gap. Like my niece Roberta, falling through a gap. All those children that are being trafficked at the age of 14 across Canada, by people who come into Canada who aren't aren't educated about the genocide that has been that has taken place. And why non Indigenous people White supremacy, the facility of like, you know, the doctrines of discovery, you know, s trying to maintain that narrative on shaky ground. After five hundred years, you know, people are starting to realize, like, my goodness, five hundred years technology, the frightening part of it, whether or not we you're people are telling the truth. This is the critical thing about artificial intelligence too. So what I'm trying to get at is like, okay, some people say it's taking what eight families to populate both North and South America. In theory, there had to have been other in in s other bloodlines coming into the Americas, okay? But with the sh Oshate Shacoe, the rituals and ceremonies that were matriarchal, handed down by white buffalo calfwoman for over ten thousand years. Produced a bloodline, like I'm I'm a o-carrying blood person. I'm a universal donor, like a rare blood type that was that was handed down from the rituals and ceremonies of white buffalo cattlemen decades and thousands of years before colonizers, the five conquering races, came into the Americas. The creator, grandfathers and grandmothers, that isolation of a huge population that was cut off from the rest of the world, the old world, ne the Neanderthal world, even parts of Africa that have no Neanderthal bloodline, the whole nature of where we all come from is you know, is is a dialogue to be discussed. But just that fragment of time, twenty Marina Crane (37:24.76) thirty, ten thousand years of isolation. It takes what, two hundred thousand to create like different animals like in Africa, the marsupials and you know, all this stuff. Evolution, creation, how we mix and interbreed our human sexuality, even the the notion of what makes indigenous women so special. our high pain threshold, this young man and I were talking, he says, I broke my ankle, I didn't even know it was broken. I said, I have to be very cautious of what I do when I go into a hospital or even get my teeth pulled. My high pain threshold. So what makes us so attractive to non in non-indigenous people, to traffic art girls? Because we're bi we're not we're biologically human beings. But our central nervous system and how we we think and how we're developed is is is decades and thousands of years old. For tr people to try and hide that reality and to try and kill off our bloodline, you know, like I said, here's Manitoba finally getting sovereignty to protect our children, to protect our bloodline. I I I don't know why people don't get it. We're universal blood donors. Look at all the accomplishments Seventy percent of the vegetables that are eaten in the world today were were created and cultivated by indigenous farmers. We weren't we weren't we weren't livestock people like like in Europe. We didn't have the pig. Things that we did and how we survived were were were was clean. E even to the sense of food storage. Bathing, sweat lodges, the healing process, the you weepy. You know, when I talk about collective and reflective healing and the holistic approach to healing Marina Crane (39:25.609) Unless unless you get it, unless you truly get it and you've you've experienced it. And I tell people, Nathan Chase and Horse, very powerful psychic. I said, Did you know in Brandon, Manitoba, they were testing children for psychic abilities in those Indian residential schools, on top of all the exper other experiments they were doing with these children and different Indian residential schools across Canada and the United States. Why? Because we're isolated, away from the rest of the world, or that we're a curiosity and we need to be poked and prodded? Yes, you you took five million or six million Jews and you killed them in World War II. That's just that doesn't even compare to the one hundred and thirty million indigenous children they killed in the first one hundred years of colonizing in the Americas. No wonder why when we have war today and all these children are being brutalized, tortured today. that we think, how can this happen? It's historical. It's an argy it's we're human beings. We'd sooner sacrifice our neighbor than to sacrifice ourselves. It's it's just human nature. And yet and yet it's a wake up call to say we've got to stop it. Do you know like when people talk about racism they say, in in order to get rid of racism we have to the all all the old racists, like p people my generation have to die before we can get rid of racism. Now understand this. Patriarchy's been only been around what, three thousand years? In order to get rid of patriarchy, that means all the patriarchs Marina Crane (41:20.664) have to die before matriarchy can take place, before it can be established again. See White Buffalo Cowwoman was a matriarch. The separation from the entire rest of the world was was created to you know, under matriarchy. The the indigenous people of the Americas were matriarchs. So society in a whole, especially patriarchy, because it's the first five years that a ch when a child is born that is raised that can never be undone. I was born and raised in matriarchy. Everything I do in terms of how I think and process to be a compassionate person is based on matriarchy from the time I was five. Now understand this, my my my white cohorts, European descent. Marina Crane (42:20.033) First five years of their life, their mothers raised them as patriarchs. They know it. They know they come from a patriarchal line. They can't really comprehend me because I'm a matriarch. They can't understand my way of thinking, but if they c but if they challenge it and they understand the difference between patriarchy and matriarchy, then we become cohorts and allies. And throughout this lifetime, that's what we need to do. You know, these patriarchs who came over the five conquering races, French, English, Portuguese, Dutch, and Spanish, you know, matriarchy was was the enemy. And they had to bring their patriarchy and and subdue us and kill us. In order for the world to live another million years, what what is it that we have to do? What is the lesson? See, all these cults that were that were created to create a narrative of indigenous p people in the past five hundred years was all created by patriarchy. We're coming through a renaissance now of indigenous youth and indigenous people like myself who've gone through these ceremonies, who've who've lived and understood the this ability as human beings and energy. this young man I spoke to yesterday. I said we can as human beings and how we're taught in patriarchy is you can feel and you can smell and you can taste all these senses. Yet in ceremony and in and I b and I truly believe in indigenous people around the world, like we're all gifted as human beings. But we have to acknowledge that this energy is is also a language. We see this language in our ceremonies in the Yawepi. And I'll and I'll do a definition, a parallel of how white people in society use this Waweepee. Even though they don't think it's a ceremony. But you know, every weekend, like I said, promiscuity is a a healing healing, is a healing tool in humanity. I think in patriarchy they've just allowed men to sow their wild oats and and shame women who do. Marina Crane (44:47.035) in matriarchy they wouldn't be no shame. Promiscuity would be just a healthy way of dealing with healing. Okay, but let's get to the reality of today. And Hm. so imagine like you're you're at at a nightclub and you're horny as hell and you just wanna find someone to have sex with. You go into the nightclub, you know, have a few beer or you know, you just sort of flirt and everything. You make contact and, you know, they both know you wanna have sex. Go off and have sex. Nobody knows when you le when you come back the next day, walk of shame, nobody even knows who you slept with or even if you had sex. But but you know when you go into those dark places in the nightclub, you can sense energy. Don't know the person, you just read their energy. You have this feeling, this gut feeling. We'll call we'll call the reading of this energy gut feeling. And you act on it. And the woman chooses. The man submits and s and and basically is prey to the woman who is who is looking. Now, that's matriarchy. But yet at the same time in patriarchy, the man just, you know, has all this like a yeah, I can see a man is built so different than a woman. and I try to explain it like I was talking to, like I said, this young man yesterday. I said, Yes, y you know, lying laying beside a man sleeping and the man who's healthy human being in their bodies will have an erection, a hard-on. five, six times during the night, they wake up sexually you know, with a erection. I said that proves the person is healthy. This human being is healthy. That's a man's biology. Whereas a woman like myself, you know, I can go without sex forty nine years. a woman who chooses to have children, that's a choice. That's matriarchy. Now, in all this discussion too, we're talking about Marina Crane (46:54.379) the G spot in a woman where it's located, where where man's G spot is. And the reality of it is like, why would creator, the grandfathers and grandmothers, put the G spot in men where it's at? Like think about it. Get your head around it. Get your head around it that even in the world wars and the condoms and the sexually transmitted diseases and how it's created with men. Like the origins of syphilis and gonorrhea, all that. And and again to even even childbirth or the lack of the lack of mental and physical health around women. The whole human development of women biology has been so stagnated and now because of women being in the sciences and and understanding their biology, trying to teach humanity about who we are. See the whole thing about going to the nightclub and and sowing your wild oats is part of the Yawepee ceremony. But but it's structured in such a way that that people that are like in that nightclub you can come and go. And the woo weepy, you can't. Once you're in that space and it's all dark and you have that person wrapped up in a blanket and you have these people wanting to talk to the person in the blanket who who is just energy. And you have to have an elder You have to have a person, a matriarch, who oversees who the kinships are. Bear clan, raven clan, who you can or cannot marry. You come into the weepy feeling, you know, like, okay, just like going into a nightclub, all hot and horny or wanting something. The ceremony starts. You hear things. Because this is a collective, holistic approach to healing. Marina Crane (48:59.787) This is the promiscuity of the energy that people experience in nightclubs being controlled in a ceremony. And you he and that collectiveness creates this psychic connection. Everybody gets scared of it because they're used to seeing and hearing. And those things are being played upon by the energy of the people in that ceremony, not the person wrapped up in the blanket, n or the elder who's who's conducting it, or or the people in the alt sitting there wanting answers for the ceremony who are hosting it. Not them. Everybody who's involved in there is a collective and it's a holistic approach to healing. And it's all based on kinship. So when the ceremonies ended and Nathan Chasinghurst would, you know, step out like Houdini, escaped the blanket, all the ceremonies and all what people saw and experienced, he he looked really bothered. Not in the sense of fear or anything, but really sexually aroused. Like he looked like he needed to have sex. Again, bastardization of the Yawpee. There was no elder there. There was no connection to kinship, Raven clan, whatever clan, bear clan, nothing. Bastardization. Because somewhere along the line, the white man who documented the weepee and all these indigenous people who were wanting to connect to their cultures. distorted it. Without any scientific proof of the purpose behind it. Now the purpose behind nightclubs and stuff like that, that's you know, socialization. That's a abstract way of, you know, people meeting and propagating and having children. No for the for the s Oshati Shakoi, it was all y in ceremony. Marina Crane (51:09.759) Everything because it's one thing as a human being to say we're different because we can see, hear and speak. But when we're dealing with energy, we're we're dealing with energy that every living thing has. And and and we and we're putting it in a collective and a holistic approach. And so when people say, well I'm psychically gifted and I see this and I can do this, no. This only happens when there's a collective and a holistic approach. in a in an environment that is guided by people who know what what they expect and what to do in terms of healing. We have a generation of young people who have been experiencing these ceremonies and who are understanding their gifts. Some of them end up dying sooner. again, like I said, in Living in a community where we feel and understand these energies and are unable to help. It it's like its creator and grandfathers and grandmothers will. A person has a choice and it's heartbreaking to know that you cannot use patriarchy that means to manipulate or coerce or give advice. Marina Crane (52:33.611) I mean you might think it's apathetic or complacent, but the reality of it is there there is a greater there's a greater influence here and that's why I talk about the whole notion of why things are happening today. You know, i this isn't just like like I'm seventy four years old. No. I'm I'm only like what, three lifetimes. We're we're talking about thousands of years of lifetimes and individuals and people handing down rituals and ceremonies and stories. Especially the biology of it and actually seeing matriarchy in in practice. I grew up seeing that with my grandmothers. That's my mum's aunties that are Sioux. Even even my aunt my mum's sisters. All that. As as hard as it is to struggle as women, the the reality of of how powerful we are, it isn't the sense of like how patriarchy sees it. That you know, you gotta get your mindset away from that has nothing to do with control or power. It has to do with looking after your children, your community, making sure everything's in place, you know, so that you're not marrying your cousin or your brother. Or or your father or your mother. Like I I don't know if people can really understand ritual abuse. you know, you create you create a society or a religion or when we're calling religion like this cre artificial cre creation to justify our human existence. but yet creator, grandfathers and grandmothers, something huge beyond our capability of understanding is at play. And we have no say over it. Marina Crane (54:30.271) All we have a say in is how we experience life on on a day to day basis. And most of what I try to do in my podcast is is to talk about it and not to be afraid of it. Not to be afraid of people who have gifts, who can who can read your energy. And we all have it as human beings. The the reality of it is you have to protect your spirit, protect your energy. As the late John Trudell put this, he says, We have to protect our energy because we're living in a time where people are eating our energy. Like I said, there are a lot of gifted indigenous youth who are practicing our culture and our ways of living, who die very young. And and for me it's important that these ceremonies and rituals are understood because you have to be living in that community. Nathan Chasing Horse manipulated a lot of people 'cause they had been isolated, separated, taken away from their communities or had no affiliation with their tribes, even though they held a card. And bless their heart, they hold that card and say, Look, I am this person. Yes, bloodline. wise. But in terms of the connection of holistic and holistic collective approach to healing. Nathan Horse Chasing Horse tried to create a false narrative of that. You s experienced it, you saw it, and you got brainwashed by it. Marina Crane (56:09.995) These things mean something in our communities. And as we heal and as we k have our leadership help in this whole healing process, it's important to honor that. It's important. All these things from life to death. It's important. So when you p have people who want to make money in TikTok and, you know, show their recipes or Even people who I've gone to high school with or college who say, Yeah, I've got I'm trying to make I'm trying to get my status card or I have blood I have a relative who's a grandmother. I'm going, No, that's just showing you have some indigenous blood. That does not make you indigenous. In the truest sense of the collective reflective healing power of holistic approach to living in the ceremonies that were handed down for Thousands and thousands of years, show some respect. Leave that money for those people who are poor. If you're a millionaire and you've got that status card, keep keep doing what you're doing. But be honest and respect those who are struggling. Because those people who are struggling are trying to help. And if you cannot see the compassion of that as an ally or a cohort. Then you really need to check yourself, Dian Diane Sm Diane Sm Darl Diane Smith, our Premier of Alberta. Like excuse me. I've known people like this my whole life my whole life I've been around people like her. Wagon burner, squaw, you know, wanting something from me, wanting me to fight, wanting to prove like I'm lesser than them, or that I don't know what the hell I'm doing or saying. Well, there's a force out there that is so much greater than than what we even think as a country in the Americas. Now people want to create different narratives of it and they've done it my whole life. My family's gone from cult to cult to cult. Everybody trying to explain a history of genocide, of stories that were taken away. But they cannot take that energy away from us once we're born. Marina Crane (58:36.641) And the more we learn about science, the more we know about genetics, the more we know about how we process our life force, it makes life all the worthwhile and living. It's such a beautiful thing to know that you're loved, to know that you can have balance and the potential to give and to honour that. My parents loved each other, my grandparents loved each other. The efforts when I talked to this young man from yesterday and I am saying I'm so grateful that you have someone that loves you. The importance of having that balance is crucial to every human being. Now for me, I I I find balance in in a way that is giving and my energy and sometimes people, even within my own family, refuse to see who I am. And and I think that's just the way it's been throughout human history. People refusing to see people for who they are. it's not a frightening thing by any means. I live by myself. I protect my energy as much as I can every day. I've I've grown up with people, I've I've buried people. E every day in my life I griever over someone that I've that I've been had the privilege to know in my life, who've blessed me with stories and have given me knowledge and understanding. We all are going to leave this earth. We all have a purpose and we have to have the courage to to trust people, embrace people, to embrace them and to release them every day. Marina Crane (01:00:34.539) much of my podcast I try to talk about that in the sense of of my culture because it's we can say it's s a culture is something that that we've grown into and out of. But it's important to share it. And hopefully the more people continue inviting me to talk publicly, for reasons that Like I I'm not going to question it, it's I'm just very grateful that I inspire people and it's like I said, everyone is gifted. If I can help anybody at my podcast to understand how rich you are, even if you've been raised in patriarchy, there is a purpose in this whole scheme of things. Just as white buffalo calf woman came to the Sha U Shotti Shakoi. Marina Crane (01:01:37.493) Something is at work. And it's just has nothing to do with religion. It's a huge plan. It's it's Creator's will being done. All we are are just energy floating along that current that Creator has created for us, along with the grandfathers and grandmothers who have guided us from the beginning of time and until the end of time. So I will end this podcast today. I'm grateful I'm back after two weeks of a sabbatical. I do hope that you continue to thrive and and you know, just just grateful that I've met so many non indigenous people finally that I've trusted. Can you imagine? I'm seventy four. Been around white people my entire life. And it's only in the past two, three years that I've learned to trust white women and white men. Marina Crane (01:02:47.863) Talk about lateral violence and misogyny. I had to deal with truth and reconciliation within my own community before I could trust non indigenous people. The work is hard, but it's worth it. We cannot be depending on the narrative, the false narrative of conquered races to to dictate how we feel and think and thrive. Marina Crane (01:03:19.552) Again to my cohorts and allies that are not indigenous. I love you all. You've changed my life for the best. I will be forever grateful for you. And I continue to be in your presence until Creator takes me.