White Ravens is a documentary focusing on the Haida Nation's resurgence in the wake of colonization and Canada's Indian | dG1fODBlSWVUWEp5a0E
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00:00Here is my healer.
00:29It is this forest, these trees, who accepted my screaming, my crying, my rage, my anger.
00:38And as a First Nations person and as a residential school survivor, these are the places you
00:44need as a person.
00:45These are the places that will free you as a spirit that you are meant to be.
00:51There's a whole few generations of people who didn't grow up on Haida Gwaii.
01:00They had to grow up off-island in residential schools, and they had the Indian just beaten
01:07right out of them, right?
01:09And I mean, there's a lot of resistance there, too.
01:11There's a lot of people who went to those residential schools who resisted and who continued
01:16to speak their languages and continued to sing their songs and pray in their own ways.
01:22When we were younger, we were under the understanding that this liquor store was the busiest one
01:27per the size of the population in B.C., and they put it here to poison the natives on
01:33purpose.
01:34There's canneries here, there's villages here, the origin story would even say that man was
01:43pulled out of the shell here by a shape-shifter, a raven, taught man that there was light.
01:59Light is consciousness.
02:02Shape-shifter brought the light into the world.
02:06Force final wave, white-capping parade, collapse all our days, pass fault through our knees,
02:11reason, restraint, relax, ready for more as we wash to the shore and dishevel this bivalve
02:15shell of our history.
02:16We learn them again with the ink of the devilfish wrapping the pen-writing words-webbing nebulas,
02:20restlessly climb, roots intertwined, fathomless patterns inducing their caverns of closed-off
02:24containment now pouring this pavement, mental projection protecting investments, collecting
02:28our currency, washing the surface clean, managed belief, monotheistic eye rising out of the
02:33distance, powering pistons, gripping this system's decisions, effervescent skin is
02:36our blessing, blossom blooming, blinded beginning, it's sinking, our swimming in muskeg divinity.
02:42Tell me the feeling of doors and portals between mossy green gates, intraventricular serpent
02:46sermons, sea otter deceased, to hypercite this cross-hatched slack pictographic homeland
02:49at hand.