Pembina Trails' Indigenous Youth Singers perform beautiful song for National Indigenous Peoples Day (video)

National Indigenous Peoples Day

June 21 is a day to celebrate Indigenous peoples contributions, achievements, languages, cultures, histories, resilience. National Indigenous Peoples Day takes place during the summer solstice. From sun rise to sun set, it is the longest day of the year. Which means in the sky, the sun travels its longest path. It also marks the first day of summer and every season is a new life. Indigenous peoples often have gatherings and ceremonies during this time of year. Many cultures around the world also celebrate and honour the summer solstice.

We Are One Love - by Sylvia Wastesicoot & Sebastin Gaskin

“In the song, We Are One Love, there is some Cree Language, or Ininiimowin, “niina kiina, Kiinanow peyak sahkihitowin which means, “I am, you are, we are one love.”  In my Indigenous worldview, it is all about relationhips, wahkohtowin. When the ever-loving Great Spirit, Creator, or Consciousness made everything of the earth and of the heavens, she put a little piece of herself in everything including the water, the air that we breathe, the animals, the plants, the sun, moon, stars, the rocks, the trees, and each and every one of us human beings. So really, we are all fractals of the Great Spirit, Creator, or Consciousness. Everything is connected. We are all related. Hence the terms of endearment that we use like mother earth, father sky, grandmother moon, grandfather sun, brother bear, sister plants and so on.”