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Toward an Indigenousled Church at Waase’aandimikaaning by Eric Clayton
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My dad was the church organist,” remembers Rosella Kinoshameg. “He taught us how to play. That was one of things I took up. That was my involvement as far as the Church went. I don’t suppose we were allowed to participate in any other way. We didn’t do readings or anything like that.” Rosella is Ojibwe, Odawa and lives on the Wikwemikong Unceded territory. And for many of her contemporaries growing up, the Catholic faith and their traditional culture were seen as incompatible.
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We were forbidden to do our ceremonies and speak in our language, and so a lot of people lost their language. Some still refuse to speak in the language, to believe in our traditions, our ceremonies.”
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