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Chief Willie Charlie

They say that names would grow as you grew. If you trace your name back usually your name would explain your gift.

It would tell the area you came from. It would tell the gift you carried and would explain which family you were from.

And then your name would grow. If your name meant ‘Hunter’ in the next stage of your life you would be know as ‘Great Hunter’ then be ‘The Teacher of Great Hunters’

Your name gives you a sense of belonging. That you belong to a family.

They say that when you know who you are and were you have come from and who you are connected, then you have a sense of belonging.

Everything belongs to the family. What ever gifts you have been passed down by our respected elders. So our gifts are not ours but are a result of family, and belong to the family.

Every family has members with different gifts, and when you put everyone together, you have a complete family.

All of this gives you a sense of direction and a sense of belonging.

You have a place in your family.

And children were the most important part of that family.

When children are taken away in to Foster Homes outside of their community, they lose their sense of belonging to their family, their connection to mother earth.

They suffer, and their community suffers.

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