my sister and I are twins and we both are very close and we share everything, we are usually the first ones to know anything about each other. Twins are known to be very connected to others and spirits. Some where I know that salmon are tied in to twins, Im not 100% how but I remember how it works. Also my dad knew that he was having twins, in my culture if you have two swirls in your hair closer to the back of the head that tells you that you would be having twins.

this reminds me of home, but instead of the berries we would get rhubarb and we would sprinkle some sugar on it, and you get a little sweet and tart treat in the summer time. its so much fun to go find your own piece of rhubarb and go out with your cousins!

I know that in some cultures that once the girls had got their period they have a celebration and this is where young men could take the young girls hand.

this reminds me of the one essay I had did about, Missing and murdered Indigenous Women, and how one woman was sexually assaulted and been treated as if she were garbage and after she had get "tossed" away.

I know that some of the Residential schools near Tofino some of the kids had gone to the schools at the age of 3, and some, and many that had been stripped of their names and given "Christian" names or numbers.

when ever you grieve, you have to let everything out and not keep anything or you will get very sick, this is what my tells me always to let everything out, cry if you need to cry and if you need to talk to someone talk. I know that Im really bad about not letting things out and need someone to remind me every once in a while.

at home we go under the water and brush our selves off, while using the cedar we wipe off the "bad" and ask the creator to look out and protect us. after we cleanse we would take the water from where we would cleanse and we would have to drink at least one water bottle of the water to "clear out" our systems.

this reminds me of the stories back home where we are all connected, we all have something to give and that what we do will come back and help us if we are patient. If you take something you give it back. In m culture if you take food you give the scraps back to the animals and the nature and next time when you go hunting or fishing the fish will give back to us the following year.

Even to this day people force things on to Indigenous peoples. We are forced to forget about residential school since it is in the past, but we don't go around saying that people should forget about the people who fought in the World wars and tell their families to forget.

the stories our elders tell us have meanings and morals within them, but I also lets us learn who we are and where we come from. It gives a view of the way we live. These stories are not just for learning but they also bring entertainment!

This statement reminds me of where I come from and how all the grandparents especially the Grandmothers help with the children. As well as they are the ones we learn from the most, where we get all our knowledge.