What my father taught me about the seven grandfathers

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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)
• 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 cérémonie du brossage (1:55)
• 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)