Saa Hiil Thut
Saa Hiil Thut, a member of the St'át'imc Nation, is from Tsal’alh (Shalalth), British Columbia. He is a cultural and spiritual consultant in health care settings.
Activité de guérison: La cérémonie du brossage
Saa Hiil Thut explique comment une cérémonie de purification au moyen de branches aide à emporter les erreurs de celles et ceux qui sont décédés. (1:55)
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First Nations - Grief, Loss, Dying, and Death
- One year to grieve (1:27)
- Moving to the spirit world (1:37)
- Helping others mourn and heal (2:29)
- Grief comes in waves (0:57)
- A time to cry (1:10)
- Honour and let go (1:33)
- Returning to my culture (0:53)
- Letting go (2:16)
- The anger of grief (1:19)
- Group help for grief (2:02)
- Traditions and grief (1:55)
- Family grief and healing (0:39)
- Indigenous Voices: Honouring Our Loss and Grief (23:07)
- Burial traditions in my community (1:26)
- Burial traditions in my community (1:26)
- From the AIDS Crisis to COVID: The Importance of End-of-Life Rituals (1:28)
- The sacred fire (1:27)
- Symbols of remembrance (1:09)
- The relationship continues (1:39)
- The Memorial Quilt Project (2:03)
- Honouring and remembering our Two-Spirit community (1:26)
- Erased in death: Honouring Two-Spirit identities (0:49)
- Responding to grief and loss in a tangible way (1:08)
- Healing collectively as a community (1:30)
- Acknowledging caregivers (0:58)
- When we couldn’t speak our grief (1:12)
- Two-Spirit lives and loss in the AIDS epidemic (1:49)
- Healing together (0:31)
- The trauma of loss (0:57)
- We all grieve in our own way (2:31)
- Taking time (0:37)
- Take note of the drag queens (1:11)
- Life continues forward (0:37)
- A journey of letting go (1:04)
- Remembering our missing sons (1:24)
- Becoming an advocate after the death of a loved one (1:15)
- Dignity for transgender patients (1:31)
- Why we need to talk about loss (1:25)
- Before colonization inclusion was our tradition (1:24)
- Gifting an eagle feather (0:55)
- Relationships continue after death (0:53)
- Transforming as we move through our lives (0:41)
- The journey of life (1:44)
- Learning to laugh (1:20)
- Leaving a legacy (1:05)
- Celebrating life and death as a family (2:13)
- Saying goodbye from above (1:09)
- Finding strength in each other (3:31)
- Sensing the passing of a loved one (1:35)
- Breaking the cycle of trauma (1:46)
- The trauma and grief that our Elders continue to live with (1:06)
- We carry the silence of hidden trauma (1:05)
- The gift of listening and being present (2:15)
- Words of comfort in the face of loss (1:02)
- The body remembers what the heart fears (0:49)
- Learning to let go (1:50)
- How I grieved the near-loss of my husband (0:56)
- Addiction, loss and the need to stand together (2:18)
- Living within an ongoing cycle of grief (1:31)
- My sister was murdered: How Indigenous people are often treated as second-class citizens (1:42)
- Facing my husband’s health crisis (1:21)
- Connecting to the Creator during difficult times (2:42)
- Returning to our spiritual self in times of grief (1:38)
- Inviting Spirit to walk with us (1:54)
- Choosing our path and finding our peace (1:59)
- When laughter brought balance to a tragic situation (3:29)
- Teaching and learning along our life journey (1:40)
- A different way to think about grief (1:41)
- Grief and the loss of our spiritual self (1:03)
- Honouring our grief (0:53)
- Supporting connection and guiding healing (2:01)
- Recognizing the weight of cumulative grief (2:40)
- An invitation to healing (2:28)
- Grieving in the midst of crisis (2:58)
- Creation Stories can serve as guides for grief (2:36)
- The ongoing impacts of colonization (2:44)
- Colonization, grief and resilience (1:48)
- Re-claiming teachings can help us heal (3:00)
- Spirit first: Finding a path through grief (1:24)
- Healing for future generations (2:02)
- Supporting grief through re-claiming our teachings (2:17)
- Tools and teachings for grief and healing (2:32)
- Ceremony and healing after the death of my father (3:02)
- Burning ceremonies connect us to the spirit world (1:57)
- A brushing ceremony helps take away mistakes of those that have died (1:54)
- Completing the brushing ceremony (1:58)
- A hospice ceremony helped me grieve my sister’s death (1:33)
- Wrapping loved ones in a blanket (0:33)
- My first experiences of grief and funerals were overshadowed by the church (3:00)
- How we support grieving families (1:35)
- Our lost generations (1:28)
- Unresolved grief and Indigenous identity (1:10)
- Healing and balance (1:00)
- Swallowing our emotional pain (1:00)
- Climate change and grief (1:10)
- When you carry unresolved grief, you carry heaviness (1:41)
- Trauma, loss and carrying heaviness (2:20)
- Unresolved grief stresses our whole system (1:34)
- Forgiveness and removing negative energy (0:57)
- One can grieve while not carrying the heaviness of grief (1:26)
- It's common to live with the fear of losing someone (1:10)
- You’re never alone (0:36)
- Forgiveness and grief (3:58)
- Racism, grief and loss of identity (2:06)
- Racisim and Canada’s medical system (3:07)
- Ignorance and racism (0:52)
- My sister taught me about death (2:03)
- Healing the Nations: My Hummingbird Song (2:11)
- Rituals and ceremony could be called “no-talk therapy” (0:37)
- Reincarnation and the human spirit (2:23)
- The Brushing Ceremony: Releasing grief, restoring Spirit (3:57)
- From Head to Toe: Letting Go Through the Brushing Ceremony (2:16)
- We had a sustainable way of life for thousands of years (1:58)
- Music is healing (2:37)
- Medicine, music and healing (1:38)
- Living in harmony ensured that we were healthy (2:10)
- Rejuvenating our Spirit (1:55)
- Music can free you from what’s hurting you (1:44)
- Laughter and stories can help with grief (1:20)
- Our teachings can help with trauma (1:01)
- Helping a soul with their journey (1:55)
- Creating burial traditions (1:07)
- Returning to the earth (2:56)
- The sacred threshold: What we feel when a life passes (2:10)
- Honouring the last goodbye: A sacred time (1:50)
- Teaching the Spirit to walk (3:37)
- A year of mourning (1:02)
- When the Spirits call us home (1:54)
- A Family's Final Gift (1:21)
- Respecting the dying, honouring the living (1:39)
- Building a special place in my community (0:43)
- You’re still here: Being present at the end (1:59)
- A home for the final journey (2:27)
- Supporting a family after the death of their baby (1:02)
- Walls we inherit (5:01)
- Braids, red shoes and what we lost (1:24)
- Being there, listening fully (0:46)
- When a baby dies (0:35)
- When grief hits (1:02)
- What eases us, guides us (1:54)
- Grief needs company, not fixing (2:09)
- No longer yours to carry (1:53)
- Releasing grief (1:43)
- Training as a Death Doula (1:41)
- Talking about what we’re afraid of (1:21)
- Learning from the dying (1:02)
- Twice to the edge of life (1:46)
- The white pine tradition (1:00)
- A journey through ceremony (5:08)
- The Song of the Wolf (3:52)
- Healing energy (2:15)
- The Cedar Bath Ceremony (2:19)
- When the Creator calls us home (0:44)
- Our family connections were broken (0:52)
- The death of my auntie (2:18)
- Helping families find peace (2:37)
- Supporting families and those that are dying (1:16)
- What we lost when our children were taken away (1:53)
- Facing tragic deaths with no judgement (0:54)
- Intergenerational trauma (1:23)
- Supporting health care providers to learn our ceremonies (1:27)
- Systemic racism in plain sight (1:07)
- Cultural safety demands more than one course (0:55)
- Holding onto our language (0:50)
- Re-learning ceremony (2:22)
- Grief carried by ceremony (1:53)
- What my father taught me about the seven grandfathers (2:51)
- Laughter (0:49)
- Taking in all that the Creator offers us (1:28)
- A year of honouring and remembering (1:43)
- Sharing stories and laughter after a death (1:07)
- Supporting people who are grieving (0:34)
- Healing a grieving community (2:26)
- Helping my sister find the stars (1:34)
- My son is a beautiful soul who has buried his grief (2:03)
- The weight of trauma and racism (1:06)
- It took me a long time to find my voice (1:30)
- My mother died during Covid (1:25)
- Grief shows itself in many ways (0:53)
- Grieving so much loss in our communities (0:53)
- Bringing trauma care to those that need it the most (1:42)
- When hospitals discriminate (1:18)
- A gift that brought my mom back to me (1:02)
- Opening up to my cultural background and the power of ceremony (2:30)
- Ceremony allows me to see more deeply (0:59)
- Humour (0:43)
- The Leaving Song (1:23)
- Understanding death through ceremony (1:26)
- Much of our grief is about fear (1:35)
- My belief is that grief is about fear (1:29)
- Grieving a death or serious illness can affect us in different ways (2:27)
- My daughter’s death (1:54)
- Before birth, we chose: Reflections on suicide, overdose, and sacred purpose (1:54)
- Grief is life (0:46)
- Balance as ceremony: Feeding the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual (2:30)
- Embracing grief (1:09)
- My near-dying experience removed my fear of death (2:16)
- We each have our own practices (0:51)
- A ceremony for encouraging a baby’s Spirit to stay in this world (1:22)
- The Seven Stones Ceremony (2:07)
- The cycle of life and the teachings of ceremony (1:57)
- I am still connected with my ancestors through ceremony (1:03)
- Water and ceremony (0:54)
- The language I grew up with (1:03)
- During ceremony my Spirit leaves my body (1:51)
- My Spirit name and ceremonies that were gifted to me (1:39)
- Teachings from the pipe ceremony and our connection to the aging tree (4:07)
- The difference between spirituality and religions (0:34)
- Seven Sacred Teachings (2:12)
- The importance of laughter (1:15)
- Reclaiming our end-of-life ceremonies (2:11)
- Preparing to go back home (1:20)
- Ancestor’s feast (1:09)
- When my Elder went to the Spirit world (2:20)
- When my grandmother died (0:52)
- Photos, stories, presence (1:27)
- Food, Presence, and Compassion: The Traditional Tools of Care (1:49)
- Supporting without judgement (1:21)
- Small actions can be big actions (0:45)
- Acknowledging that we carry grief and trauma (2:45)
- The grief that comes with not feeling like you belong (1:11)
- Sharing circles and the importance of story (2:14)
- Talking about our loved ones who have died (1:08)
- Speaking grief aloud (1:32)
- Support and sharing (1:44)
- Don’t judge (1:18)
- Crying is good (1:35)
- Allowing for emotion (1:50)
- It can be hard to ask for help (1:07)
- Acknowledging different kinds of losses (1:59)
- Healing happens when we stop holding everything inside (1:33)
- Training and change need to be ongoing (2:04)
- Supporting the next generation of Indigenous Healers (0:40)
- Bringing our ceremony, culture and language back into my life (1:06)
- Ceremonial helpers (1:17)
- Sacred water walks (1:14)
- Always remember the water (3:07)
- Learning my language: Moving from a place of shame to a place of beauty (3:18)
- Holding our stories and our truths (0:56)
- Culture helped me with my own grief (1:12)
- It’s OK to cry: Returning to our teachings (1:02)
- The Seven Grandfather Teachings (1:58)
- Living our truths (1:06)
- Le poids du deuil cumulatif (2:42)
- La réappropriation des enseignements peut contribuer à notre guérison (3:01)
- Une invitation à amorcer la guérison (2:29)
- Activité de guérison: La libération émotionelle (1:44)
- Indigenous Voices Exploring our loss (20:54)
- Voix Autochtones: Explorer Nos Pertes (21:08)
- Indigenous Voices: Reclaiming our ceremonies for grieving (19:22)
- Voix Autochtones: Se réapproprier nos rituels de deuil (19:31)
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