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I love this one comedian named George Carlin.

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A lot of you know him.

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One of the teachings that I learned from his comedy was that rights don't really exist.[br]

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It's a fabrication.

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And we understand

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that "rights" comes from bodies like nation-states

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and international law.

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Bodies like the UN.

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The idea of responsibilities supercedes that. [br]

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It goes back in time to ancestral times.

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And in our language, we don't have a word for "rights." We have words for "responsibility."

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Indigenous laws, responsibilities, are...

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take what you need and leave the rest.

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That means you only take what you need and you operate with your laws, [br]

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creating products that are built right the first time.

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Foods that are acknowledged and consumed fully.

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You don't take more than you need.

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It's not new.

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What's new is remembering what those protocols were and what they can be today.

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Especially in the face of contemporary and future proposals by this capitalist society

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to access what they call "resources."

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These are not resources.

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This is a life force. A life force that we have relationships to.

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We don't own it.

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We don't own the rivers. We don't own the salmon.

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We have relationships with these worlds.

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And our laws are our responsibilities.

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In our language ******** means our responsibilities. Our ways.

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So the way we harvest salmon is our living law.

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The action of properly harvesting salmon to respect their world is the living law.

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You know, an invading force does not bestow the rights on people when they keep them oppressed.

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The rights are only a chance for them to, kind of, come out of that oppressive state once in a while

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to kind of feel a little bit empowered then disappear back under that oppressive veil. [br]

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Responsibilities take us out of that veil.

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They give us a chance to walk freely on our lands.

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And we take our responsibilities very serious.

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That's the freedom that we experience.

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The air that we breathe isn't based on our rights,

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it's based on our ancestral responsibilities, which go back thousands of years.

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And the rights are something that only goes back to 1982 here, in Canada.

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But the United Nations has declared it as "Rights for Indigenous Peoples."

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And being a hierarchical body

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upholding nation states

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and nation states uphold capitalist ideals.

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And capitalist ideals depends upon infinite resources[br]

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infinite growth in a finite world.

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And that means all of us as human beings can protect that finite world

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by asserting our responsibilities collectively around the world.

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Going back to humble ways of living.