Chester Day Chief - Our Stories Matter

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Our Stories Matter
Chester Day Chief, Blood Tribe
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Summary: 
Sharing our voices and truths; Survivors of residential school and their families who want to digitize their story, history, knowledge, teachings, memories, genealogy, resilience, traditions and healing.
Description: 

Elder Chester Day Cheif shares his story in Blackfoot. Chester shared that those who understand Blackfoot will be able to underdtand what he sharing, he also shares a condensed verion in Engligh for those that dont understand the language. He encourages everyone to learn to speak and understand their mother tongue, there is a differnt meaning to things spoken in Indigenous languages that are hard to interpret using the english language. 

Location: 
Location Description: 

Blood Reserve, Alberta, Canada. 

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Community
Edmonton Public Library
Category
Kinship and Family Histories, People and Personal Stories

The creator of this content has indicated that this story contains discussion, mention or description of: Residential school and/or day School.

Protocol: 
Piitoyiss Indigenous Services Team
Community: 
Lethbridge Public Library
Collection: 
Our Stories Matter
Category: 
Kinship and Family Histories, Language, History and Resistance, People and Personal Stories, Place, Land and Territory
Media Type(s): 
Video
Keywords: 
Elder, Grandparent, Residential School, Healing Journey, Ceremony, Identity, Hunting, Indigenous Identity, History, Music, Prayers, stories, Survivor, Language, Indigenous languages, Blackfoot Language
Creator(s): 
Chester Day Chief, Marilyn Contois
Contributor(s): 
Marilyn Contois, Lethbridge Public Library
Date: 
2022 July
Language(s): 
Blackfoot
Rights: 
Chester Day Chief owns the rights to this content. This story contains historical sensitivities and describes difficult events. It has been shared to help create a deeper understanding of community experience and should be treated with great care. You are asked to consider these sensitivities with gravity when accessed, using, or sharing this content. Additional input, insights, information, and dialogue from community members is welcomed to help enrich and enhance this content. Contribute knowledge by contacting the content creator and/or sharing stories as "Related Content" on Voices of the Land.
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Publisher: 
Marilyn Contois, Lethbridge Public Library