Authentic Cree-Ations

Good morning!
Kokum Bear’s Traditional parenting classes will have to be in person as zoom presentations will be later in the year.
Just waiting for loose ends to get tied up before date and place is set. Thank you for your patience.

Today going out to do “Awasis teaching” with the ECDC children.
Our theme is music!

Good morning!
What a beautiful day to share the naming of the program I have been working on throughout the summer.
After attending a sweat lodge ceremony September 12/25 and being asked if I remember my spirit name. Yes it is “Happy Kokum Bear”!
So here it is: “Happy Kokum Bear’s Mothers Tradition”. This program will have 7 sessions.
Now to set a date to begin.
Stay tuned! 🪶

Finished 3 days of intensive training “Mother’s Tradition” thank you to Chris and Tanya for all your wisdom and support throughout the three days.
This training will be an enhancement to the continued development of the program I have developed which still in progress.
When you see a need you build on a solution.

Tansi,
September 1/25.
The days seem to go by so quickly!!
I’ve had a busy summer working on two projects.
The first one, “Awasis Teachings for 3-5 year olds manual” is getting closer to completion.

It is a program currently being taught in day care, pre-K and kindergarten environments. It is taught from a Cree, Metis perspective. The program has been well received by the children and staff in our community. Because of the demand to have us in the schools we adapted the program so it can be deliver to grades 1-12 as well.
When I, my sister Alice and granddaughter Courtney it was important to us that it be delivered by an Elder-Kokum and a knowledge keeper/helper. The importance of the shadowing with the Elder is to ensuring they are learning the teachings. This is how we teach the next generation of knowledge holders and helpers to deliver the program.
It is our hope to get the manual out in spring of 2026.
I would like to thank the ladies at ECDC who have been very helpful with giving feedback and helping edit the manual. I am grateful for your support .

The second project hasn’t been named yet and I’m still working on the name.
The modules are nearing completion and I needed to move the launch to end of September .
Stay tuned.
Hiy, Hiy.

I might ruffle a few feathers with this post, and that’s okay. We can either talk about it like respectful people or you can scroll past. I’m speaking as an Indigenous person whose people have been here since long before Canada existed — before borders, before English, before “immigration” was even a word.

This land is our land. Our ancestors fought to protect it, lived in balance with it, and passed down languages, cultures, and laws that have been here for thousands of years. We never left. We never needed to “adapt” to someone else’s ways — the newcomers adapted to ours when they first arrived, learning how to survive from the very people they tried to erase.

If you come here from somewhere else, understand this: you are living on Indigenous territory. You are a guest. Respect the land, respect the language of the land, and respect the people whose ancestors are buried here. That means honoring our treaties (if you even have one with us), respecting our ceremonies, and not trying to change this place into a copy of somewhere else.

We speak Dene, Cree, Ojibwe, Inuktitut, Mohawk, and hundreds of other Indigenous languages — the first languages of this land. English and French are visitors here. Our spiritual ways and relationship to the Creator are part of this land’s foundation, long before Canada called itself a “Christian nation.”

If our ways offend you, if hearing our languages or seeing our flags and symbols bothers you, remember this: you are free to live anywhere else. But if you choose to stay, learn the real history of where you are, respect the First Peoples, and be part of the healing this land needs.

This is our home. Always has been, always will be.
We welcome respect, but we will never give up who we are.

I copied and pasted this:
and so should you.🪶

I might ruffle a few feathers with this post, and that’s okay. We can either talk about it like respectful people or you can scroll past. I’m speaking as an Indigenous person whose people have been here since long before Canada existed — before borders, before English, before “immigration” was even a word.

This land is our land. Our ancestors fought to protect it, lived in balance with it, and passed down languages, cultures, and laws that have been here for thousands of years. We never left. We never needed to “adapt” to someone else’s ways — the newcomers adapted to ours when they first arrived, learning how to survive from the very people they tried to erase.

If you come here from somewhere else, understand this: you are living on Indigenous territory. You are a guest. Respect the land, respect the language of the land, and respect the people whose ancestors are buried here. That means honoring our treaties (if you even have one with us), respecting our ceremonies, and not trying to change this place into a copy of somewhere else.

We speak Dene, Cree, Ojibwe, Inuktitut, Mohawk, and hundreds of other Indigenous languages — the first languages of this land. English and French are visitors here. Our spiritual ways and relationship to the Creator are part of this land’s foundation, long before Canada called itself a “Christian nation.”

If our ways offend you, if hearing our languages or seeing our flags and symbols bothers you, remember this: you are free to live anywhere else. But if you choose to stay, learn the real history of where you are, respect the First Peoples, and be part of the healing this land needs.

This is our home. Always has been, always will be.
We welcome respect, but we will never give up who we are.

I copied and pasted this:
and so should you.🪶

New experience today!! It is amazing to experience another culture.
Dragon event in Edmonton today

What is the most rewarding but one of the hardest job you’ll ever do??

Omgg i am so pi**ed off right now. I just went to Walmart for some stuff and at the checkout I dropped a $20 . This Woman in front of me picked it up ,I thanked her and told her that it was mine and she said, "The things found on earth are kept by the collector," and walks away. I was shocked , dum founded and I looked at the cashier who looked just as amazed as me 👀 I yelled TF! Give me back my $20 ,please! I ended up following her outside to her car. When she got to her car, she put placed her groceries by her trunk on the ground. So I ran up grabbed the bags and took off running 🏃🏿‍♀️ She yells” give me my bags!”i yell back at her “The things found on earth are kept by the collector!" I took off in my car and I opened the bags 👀 Ribs, pork chops and about 200 dollars of meat. Not bad for being pi**ed over a 20 dollar bill huh? But in all seriousness this is a joke to see who reads the whole thing-if you did copy, paste. 😂

Hey & Oh Hey 👋 👋 keep laughing and enjoy the silly things.😅

Laugh of the day!!🤣🤣

Beautiful day today.
Enjoy spending time your family and friends.
If you’re travelling be safe.
Listen with your ears and hear with your heart.❤️
Hiy, Hiy