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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:02.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love this one comedian named George Carlin.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.71,0:00:05.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of you know him.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.55,0:00:10.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the teachings that I learned from his comedy was that rights don't really exist.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.62,0:00:11.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a fabrication.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.90,0:00:14.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we understand
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.01,0:00:17.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that "rights" comes from bodies like nation-states
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.55,0:00:21.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and international law.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.09,0:00:23.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bodies like the UN.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.26,0:00:25.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The idea of responsibilities supercedes that. \N
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.71,0:00:28.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It goes back in time to ancestral times.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.16,0:00:34.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in our language, we don't have a word for "rights." We have words for "responsibility."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.76,0:00:40.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Indigenous laws, responsibilities, are...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.71,0:00:43.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,take what you need and leave the rest.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.91,0:00:50.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That means you only take what you need and you operate with your laws, \N
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.97,0:00:54.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,creating products that are built right the first time.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.99,0:01:00.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Foods that are acknowledged and consumed fully.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.07,0:01:02.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't take more than you need.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.05,0:01:04.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not new.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.18,0:01:09.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's new is remembering what those protocols were and what they can be today.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.18,0:01:16.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Especially in the face of contemporary and future proposals by this capitalist society
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.53,0:01:19.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to access what they call "resources."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.95,0:01:21.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are not resources.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.79,0:01:25.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a life force. A life force that we have relationships to.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.18,0:01:27.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't own it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.36,0:01:31.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't own the rivers. We don't own the salmon.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.65,0:01:34.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have relationships with these worlds.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.88,0:01:38.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And our laws are our responsibilities.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.41,0:01:44.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In our language ******** means our responsibilities. Our ways.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.55,0:01:48.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the way we harvest salmon is our living law.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.03,0:01:55.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The action of properly harvesting salmon to respect their world is the living law.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.42,0:02:01.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, an invading force does not bestow the rights on people when they keep them oppressed.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.44,0:02:05.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The rights are only a chance for them to, kind of, come out of that oppressive state once in a while
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.73,0:02:10.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to kind of feel a little bit empowered then disappear back under that oppressive veil. \N
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.50,0:02:14.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Responsibilities take us out of that veil.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.20,0:02:17.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They give us a chance to walk freely on our lands.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.59,0:02:20.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we take our responsibilities very serious.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.14,0:02:22.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the freedom that we experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.23,0:02:24.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The air that we breathe isn't based on our rights,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.07,0:02:28.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's based on our ancestral responsibilities, which go back thousands of years.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.21,0:02:32.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the rights are something that only goes back to 1982 here, in Canada.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.92,0:02:38.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the United Nations has declared it as "Rights for Indigenous Peoples."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.40,0:02:42.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And being a hierarchical body
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.07,0:02:44.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,upholding nation states
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.05,0:02:46.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and nation states uphold capitalist ideals.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.45,0:02:51.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And capitalist ideals depends upon infinite resources\N
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.57,0:02:54.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,infinite growth in a finite world.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.04,0:03:02.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that means all of us as human beings can protect that finite world
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.47,0:03:05.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by asserting our responsibilities collectively around the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.52,0:03:07.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Going back to humble ways of living.