Tent of Many Voices Demo

so ladies and gentlemen I'm very honored to be here I'm very proud and honored to have the blood of a very famous young Native American woman I'm so honored that uh I've been traveling extensively throughout the United States I had the opportunity to have an audience with President Clinton I had an opportunity to speak at the Smithsonian and many many opportunities because my ancestor exemplified for me what road I should seek among the Native American people we all believe in the Red Road of Life all of us have a red Road even our white relatives here you have a red Road all of us have a road in this life and it is a road of this young woman that came about with the Lewis and Clark expedition that they wrote about her that they told about her and it is through her that we the lmai Shashi the Aika people are known about today through that young woman you know first thing I want to share with you that Shoni people historically encompassed a large part of the United States we were a large nation and if you can imagine Europe Europe is a European nation right and what kind of tribes would we find in Europe English Italian iian Norwegian all different kinds of tribes right that we would find over there in the European nation well the shonis were a great big nation historically and they're also composed of many tribes you have the Tua you have the aai you have the pengu you have the Soki you have the yamba and if you notice we're all identified with the tika dicka is what we are identified by the primary food sources in the area that we lived in and sakas people came from the AA can everyone try that AA let's try that again so when you see a historian and they say to you where does Sakia come from and you'll impress them by saying AA she was part of the salmon Eater people she was a salmon eater one of the only shonan tribes primarily identified with eating the salmon the salmon came the furthest Inland into her people's land and it is by the life of the salmon that we symbolize our life our life begins in a cradle board much like this one every tribe has a cradle board every tribe and the these cradle boards are not just cradle boards they're just not a carrying device they're not a car seat they're very spiritual very very spiritual zachia was taught from the time that she was a little girl about her Indian culture