
We held a competition at the 2014 Regina North American Indigenous Games in which we asked the youth to share with us what Indigenous culture means for them. The hashtag #CultureIs2014 was used across Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Here is what they had to say:
- Guess who learned how to hoop dance??! Culture is a lifelong learning process.
Culture is attending powwows
Culture is hand games
Culture is dancing
Culture is making beadwork!
Culture is dancing jingle
Culture is bringing our people together
Culture is swag powwow braids
Culture is being thankful
Culture is speaking our indigenous language
Culture is helping one another
Culture is ceremony
Culture is our language and our language is our culture
Culture is being thankful to our creator Shukwaya’tisu
Culture is respect
Culture is akhwatsile (family)
Culture is respecting our elders
Culture is community
Culture is Tsi’ nikyukwalihot^ (our ways)
Culture is our fires
Culture is teaching the generations following us
Culture is in the beat of the drum
Culture is a way of life
Culture is community, helping each other, learning from each other and working together!
Culture is learning your history. ♥
Culture is taking pride in being First Nations … Not giving into “Indian” stereotypes
Culture is empowering one another
Culture is sharing our stories, healing ourselves and recovering what we’ve lost.
Culture is strength that gives me the initiative to change my life
Culture is sharing traditions.
Culture is the opportunity to be involved with community